skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One 'argument' that people don't often think of is recruiting and hiring. I recruit for many companies, and the level of applicants I receive for jobs in the more emerging language communities is well above the applicants I usually get for more traditional languages. My evidence is anecdotal, but when I posted Clojure or Scala jobs (and recently Go) I received fewer applicants! but almost all of them were highly qualified engineers with very impressive track records. The applicants also come from all over, because of the novelty of the jobs. Java jobs tend to get local candidates, but a Clojure job gets applicants worldwide.

Most of this is with startups, but I've even seen serial startup engineers go to work for large companies who use an emerging language.

Obviously this is a side effect that depends on the language chosen, and it doesn't justify that the code or product will improve, but if you are making the argument this could be a consideration.

Of course, the counter is that experienced talent in the emerging language may be more scarce.
Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Micheal Hartl – with better UI.
So I want to use Persona. So I go to https://login.persona.org/ and there is no "Sign Up" just "Sign In". So I enter my email which is through GMail and it is asking me to choose one of my Google Accounts.

1: I want Persona not permission to use my Google Account with another service.
2: I entered an email why would I want to use a Google Account with a different email?
Ghosts of the Dead
No. The US system is distinguished by healthcare insurance being tied to employment, and the absence of free options.

Australia has not been moving towards that model.

Private health care options have always been a significant part of the Australian healthcare system. In the current Australian settlement: (1) there is a catch-all system that's available to everyone; (2) if citizens want to chose a chosen private option, the government subsidises this.

There's a similar dynamic in school funding.

The result is that people can choose to funnel money towards the education and health system that's in addition to what they pay in their taxes. Their choice also reduces load on the free options. People spend money on health and education that would otherwise be spent on new cars or more ludicrous mortgages, and have done this through an exercise of freedom, rather than having had the government tell them what to do.

Australia is one of only a handful of countries with both solid education and health systems, yet a contained federal government debt situation.
There are also thousands of ways that France is more Free than the US. Which just goes to show only looking at ways that A is worse than B is a stupid (Edit: biased) way of comparing A and B.

EX: On September 11, 2001, the FBI had a list of 16 people deemed "no transport" because they "presented a specific known or suspected threat to aviation."[6]... In April 2007, the United States government "terrorist watch list" administered by the Terrorist Screening Center, which is managed principally by the FBI, contained 700,000 records.[15] A year later, the ACLU estimated the list to have grown to over 1,000,000 names and to be continually expanding. Note: There are no where near 1,000,000 known terrorists this is just name matching including known alias and including anyone close and well into the 90+% false positives.
More like Freedumb™, at least in our approach to healthcare.
If you want socialized French-style medicine, then you also get national strikes that shut everything down, Mediterranean time reckoning, really bad enviornments for startups, and so on.

That's ridiculous.

All the European countries have healthcare systems that are far more civilized than ours. Not all of them have those problems.

Also, it's not that Europe is a bad environment for startups. It's that Silicon Valley (for all its defects) is the best environment for startups in the world, and there's a power law distribution. (Whatever #2 is, it's not even close.) The US minus Silicon Valley is no better than Europe in terms of supporting entrepreneurs.
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Well, I personally know one high-level technical individual who almost got fired for daring to use Spring in a heavy J2EE shop. He survived and Spring makes the product so much better (for those who don't know - Spring is basically what J2EE should have been - lightweight and high performance framework)

You basically have to appeal to emotions (they won't understand the technical argument or even care). But if it makes the product more stable, more easily extensible/customizable - that could work.

Good luck!
This is quite insulting to G+ users to be so easily dismissed and declaring the place a "ghost town".

Deeming the community worthless because it's not as large as Facebook's is ridiculous.

There is also no mention of G+ fulfilling the purpose of an identity layer to tie in Google's offerings under one pictured profile like every other online service launching today.

This attack which lacks any actual news and new developments is seemingly so unprovoked and so mean spirited as to indicate that there is a "google bashing" quota the author is trying to meet.
A contractor and I successfully convinced our large enterprise that node.js was the best choice for a new project and we were able to use it. I dont want to make this a conversation about whether node is good or not, but it did hit the sweet spot as our goal was basically a RESTful API as a facade to some legacy tech, which is in my opinion where node shined - and this was back in early 2011.

The convincing arguments are:

1) the technology fits the problem - I would not use C++ for a web api, and I would not use node for a rendering engine.

2) the team is (mostly) ready to use it - a couple weeks to read a book and make a prototype should be enough. There is no need for lengthy and expensive training sessions or a gigantic shift in technical knowledge

3) if it doesnt work out, you can double back quickly and cheaply

4) the new technology won't cost an arm and a leg - no need to find budget for expensive licensing for software/tooling

5) you are not proposing this alone - get backing from other senior level programmers/architects.

If you can hit most of those, then you probably have a decent chance!
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> Then, all of a sudden, the fog suddenly parted and it was like being set free. After that, I never had another Rails problem that I couldn't handle.

Pfftt, yeah sure. Everything is perfect in Rails land
Why is it the only interesting coverage on CNN these days is when they put up Youtube videos?
I would like to see this project open-source and put my contribution on it.
Pancreatic cancer has a terrible prognosis as it is, and Stage IV (metastasis) makes that worse.

If the cancer makes it into the bloodstream, and isn't wiped out completely by the chemo (cancer cells have an evolutionary dynamic like antibiotic resistance; this is why chemo drugs can stop working before they kill all the cancer) it's very likely that it's a chronic illness and terminal within 5 years: often much less.
Routing TCP/IP, Volumes 1 and 2.
Dont worry, once Javascript get classes you'll have all these design pattern talibans on your back saying your code isnt java like / SOLID / DRY / YAGNI / enough.

Ironically the PHP community suffers from this problem since it has explicit classes and interfaces,while being a design mess under the hood.

About OO and JS, a lot of projects actually use prototypal inheritance , you just dont see it because it's hidden under a jquery like facade/chainable API, where you never need to use the new keyword explicitly. It's obvious that libs that use these kind of DSL are fairly popular in the js world,more than the one using "explicit" OO.
Show HN: Lead Generation As A Service (LGAAS?)
Yet the ironic thing is that everyone in the US is paying for a healthcare system via taxes and they pay far more per capita than, say, the UK or Denmark (yes, US public health spending expenditures are higher despite not resulting in universal care). On top of that, they then pay a second (private) time to get any actual coverage unless they're disabled, old or young.

Update: The data for my claim above - http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc... - the US had the 4th highest per capita government spending on health in 2010 behind only Luxembourg, Monaco and Norway.
> you can't just present facts (even an excel spreadsheet of raw data will show what you tested against)

A 'fact' is something that is fairly well established. Of course we can never know anything with absolute certainty. Given that notion of 'fact', are you saying there are no facts in, say, physics, or chemistry, or biology? And on top of that, are you saying they can't simply be presented?
"I stopped answering questions because the questions never got beyond stuff that you should be able to google in five minutes."

Yes, there's that as well.
Stephen Hawking: Syria's war must end
A strange site, it doesn't support IP at all: http://ip6.nl/#!ipinfo.io

It merely does legacy IP, so what's the point?
I don't have any specific information about this, but somehow I doubt that the French atomic capability (Force de Frappe) would have been enough to destroy the USSR as a functioning society, in contrast to the U.S. nuclear arsenal, which was eminently capable of doing the job. The French nukes therefore would have had limited value as a deterrent against the Soviets.

Try this thought experiment:

First, recall the Soviets' ability to absorb fearful military punishment, as well as their willingness to act brutally in eastern- and central Europe during and after WW2; in East Germany in 1953; in Hungary in 1956; and in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Second, imagine that in the 1950s or 1960s the Soviets had invaded Germany --- but also imagine that there was no effective NATO protection because (hypothetically) the U.S. had gone isolationist.

Third, assume that the Soviets had punched through Germany; reached the Rhine; and pushed through into France.

OK, now let's assume for the sake of argument that in response, the French had nuked the invading Soviet forces, but not the USSR homeland (for fear of provoking massive Soviet retaliation), using only small, tactical nukes.

It's not unreasonable to think that the Soviets would have responded in turn along much the same lines as they did in WWII --- but this time with their own nuclear weapons --- by obliterating the French armed forces, and probably a French city or three to make sure the message got through.

The French would (sensibly) have surrendered, of course. The Soviets then would have done much as they did in eastern Germany after WWII: They'd have carted off everything useful that they could, as war booty (euphemistically described as "reparations"). They probably would have shipped thousands of people off to slave-labor camps in the gulag, most of whom would not be seen nor heard from ever again. They'd have settled in to administer the ruined France as yet another impoverished Soviet vassal state under a Communist puppet government.

So France's nuclear Force de Frappe likely wasn't a real deterrent to the Soviets, but instead was merely anti-American and anti-British posturing by de Gaulle, safe behind what he knew would be the protective shield of NATO military power.

(Do de Gaulle's attitude and actions remind anyone else of what Hamid Karzai has been doing lately?)
From 2012... Here's the referenced article from The Lancet

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
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>The amusing part is that having this critical services being managed by the state seems so obvious to us that we don't think we are specially socialists

Neither does most Americans with many of their socialized services. Very few people are protesting for disbanding of police fire or public education or highway infrastructure.

Then we get people protesting like this

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/04/05/sublime-tea-baggery-...

(Medicare is socialized medicine. It is only available for the elderly and disabled though.)
all of the richard stevens books.
nodejs has the util.inherits function which gives you an extra super_ shortcut to the superclass constructor,it makes sense to use it in node.
Boxon.cast( fs.readfile, 'myfile' )
.then( function( content ){ console.log( content ) })
.catch( function( err ){ console.log( "Error", err ) });

Boxon is promise implementation agnostic, works with Q, bluebird, etc... See https://github.com/JeanHuguesRobert/l8/wiki/AboutBoxons
I sometimes wonder if people like this wake up one day and realize they tossed one of the most important opportunities of their lives because they are stubborn. Probably not.
Because haskell has such a library (a few actually) and ocaml does not. So in ocaml you either have to give up safety, or write a bunch of verbose boilerplate. There's no reason someone couldn't write a lens library for ocaml of course, but the much smaller community makes for far fewer libraries.
It seems that 2 year old babies that have never seen the ads knew how to do these things just fine. Heck, there are even videos of cats playing with an iPad and getting it to scroll and such.

Swipe with finger to scroll, tap to press, and even pinch-to-zoom are as basic interaction as interaction goes. You only need a second to get them if shown, and most people can even discover them instantly without being shown.
The same way you sell a business anything else: it will raise our revenues and/or decrease our costs.

Rather than saying "We should reimplement our core products in $FOO" you can often achieve the result of using $FOO while hitting less resistance by implementing one-off projects or support systems in $FOO instead.

e.g. I worked at a Japanese megacorp and, despite us being a Java shop, one of the sales guys sold a customer on "We're certainly the right people to write documentation for your Perl program." This contract only required a bunch of HTML files as a deliverable, rather than getting a team of programmers to speed on something which would be maintained for 30 years, so I successfully convinced my boss that I'd jump on the Perl grenade if he let me use any means necessary to create the HTMLed documentation. I ended up doing it in Ruby. Then I had a "Hey boss remember that time I delivered a $X0,000 project in 1/4th the budget and made you look like an effing hero? I want to use that tech again" case study.

Though for the amount of time I spent on evangelizing Ruby and modern Javascript-heavy UIs at my previous company I could have launched my own. Eventually I did. It turned out to be a much better use of my time.
Managers only understand about resources: time, money and human.

And percentages.
But they do make more money (profit) on consumer PCs than the PC vendors, which is a bit mind blowing.
>Yet Chrome is still superior where it really matters, such as performance and resource usage.

It isn't: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...

>Firefox' usage numbers are dropping

Numbers have mostly stabilized during last year: http://gs.statcounter.com/

>We see the same with Firefox Mobile. It really isn't superior to the alternative browsers in any way

It's the highest rated browser in the Google Play Store.
Polish clinics: Another kind of health tourism (2013)
All I thought was, that's all? I would have expected lack of exercise killed many more.
> it's about the freedom of the developer of software to choose the license their code is offered under

except, according to RMS and his fans, any choice but GPL is "wrong".
While what I'm about to suggest may well hamper your coding productivity that day, why not 'think aloud' as much as possible that day and narrate [the core of] what you're doing? Help your brother get a better idea of the kind of decisions that you're making and how you're solving problems.
Why does Google prefer the Java stack for its products instead of Python?
After all, people come from the all over the world for treatment at Sloan Kettering.

This is one of those claims that has to be attacked. Day after day, I hear people defend our horrible healthcare system by claiming that people on the "global rich list" still come "to the US" for healthcare. That was true in the 1980s. Not now.

No one who knows anything thinks highly of our healthcare system in general. Even if you have insurance, the quality of care is inferior to what many countries have for free.

What is true is that very wealthy people (for whom money is no issue) travel to specific doctors for treatment, especially when getting an experimental procedure. If that doctor's at Sloan Kettering, they go to New York. If she's in Paris, they go to France. If she's at Hopkins, they go to Baltimore. If that doctor's in London under NHS, they go to the UK. No one comes "to the US"; some people come to specific specialists.

Anyway, if you're an average American-- little wealth, no connections, unable to afford treatments insurance won't cover-- you're probably not going to be able to get appointments with those specialists no matter what.

The U.S. insurance-dominated healthcare system is a world-class embarrassment. It's the first sign that we're no longer a first world country.
> France was at no risk whatsoever from the Soviet Union.

That's not the way it appeared at the time. Up until the mid-to late 1960s, it was entirely rational for Western leaders to conclude that the USSR wanted eventually to dominate all of Europe and even the Western Hemisphere. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War#Beginnings_of_the_Cold...
No, I would expect a beginner to use getProgName. I would also expect anyone else to use getProgName also.
Am I the only one who doubt that this is the truth?

I am living in both Paris and the US. It's not what I have experienced.

In Paris, one of my friend has been hit by a motorcycle. The motorcycle run away. She hits the ground and nobody cares. She was disoriented with weird bubble on the skull. I call the french 911, they send the firehouse department who came for finally asking me to go get my car to get her to the hospital. When she can walk, they don't have to take her. I mean WTF?. I took her to the hospital, lot of homeless people, cold waiting room. We wait for 2 hours for her to be taking care of and after that we wait for another 4 hours. The hospital staff were making fun of her because she can't remember her first name and a lot of stuff because of the disorientation (She is pretty so maybe they wanted to take advantage of the situation or something, wtf). Duh? They finally say the scanner didn't revealed anything and send us home. Actually she had blood in her skull and suffer from permanent brain damage now. I mean WTF? Yeah we've paid something like 7 euros I guess, but what's the point if it's for getting treatments from the middle ages?

In opposite, one of my friend got in a car accident in Austin. They wanted to run away, they were DUI but finally get caught. He get to the hospital by an ambulance. Duh? And I finally join him in the hospital. Wahoo, this is day and night. The hospital have scanners or IRMs in every rooms and he has been take of right away. Someone was checking on him every 15 minutes or so. Plenty of devices with computers (duh!) and electronic devices (duh!). And the hospital food was not that bad (for hospital food I mean)! Everything clean and warm, people professional. He didn't get to pay anything because of good coverage.
Yes, I understand the difference. My point is that RMS and his fans are near-religious in their belief that any choice but theirs is morally wrong.
I find these kind of news worrying, but for the wrong reasons.

This is more about pushing an agenda, maybe increasing health insurance premiums and blaming people.

Rate of death is still 100% for humans, regardless of what you do.

Sure, maybe it's healthier to work standing or I don't know, but the end result is the same.

Not to mention health problems caused by exercise itself. Or even worse, weekend exercisers that go and overexert themselves then causing a heart attack.
Why not use it to your advantage? Preseed awesome profiles with your Googleable name.
That was to kill flash. Now they have video and animations sorted they don't want to eat into their native platform.
I think it's almost like a challenge people do for its own sake because it's something even Crockford failed to do correctly. Write an awesome classical inheritance pattern, write a bunch of tests to convince yourself it works, and then ignore it.

Indeed, the fact Crockford's stuff on classical inheritance in The Good Bits was wrong but the book got (and retains) so much traction indicates just how much no-one cares.
Google Dart and TypeScript are pretty good alternatives to JS in some cases and Dart has the notion of streams.

https://www.dartlang.org/docs/tutorials/streams/
I believe the "problem" with the US system is the very idea that the private sector can manage and provide such essential services better than the government could. And at the same time run the services for profit, profitably. It's a capitalist fantasy. Its a successful power play by our deluded wealth. We have a sad state, this US of A, with our population completely brainwashed into accepting this absurd situation.
I don't see any significant performance improvements listed in the release notes.

Git's memory-intensive handling of large files with most operations continues to make it difficult to use as a versioned, incremental backup tool. Although I know that backup is not Git's originally intended purpose, it is otherwise a very good solution. Moreover, companies with large repositories run up against these limitations as well (see Facebook's move from git to mercurial). Does anyone know whether any improvements in these areas are slated for git 2.0 or being considered for a later point release?

They could even draw on the increasingly-great bup tool (https://github.com/bup/bup) that uses the git pack-file format with a rolling checksum algorithm to do fast deduplication within files.
Whether it's about personal attacks or not is irrelevant. The definition of trolling you describe is selfish, immature, sadistic, and borderline psychopathic behavior. The troll specifically tries to piss people off for no other reason than he derives pleasure from it, basically the definition of sadism. At the very least the troll is wasting everyone's time including his own. Fuck trolls
Are you respected? Because I’d say don’t even bother trying if they don’t respect you
I've been using it in my mobile apps and getting very little support. A single sign on that doesn't support native mobile apps is dead in the water.
I think they mean that it does not depend on bitcoind.
AppleDoesntGiveAFuckAboutSecurity iTunes Evil Plugin Proof of Concept
Maybe. But you know what? So do OS X and Linux.
>when this is a concept increasingly shunned in classically typed languages.

It's only shunned by a certain class of hipster and more-functional-than-thou programmers. The vast majority of classically typed language programmers still use classical inheritance.
The French financial- and military contributions to the American Revolution were motivated almost entirely by a desire to contain the British and exact revenge for the loss of French North America. Financially that ended up being a very bad move for the (royal) French government, but don't imagine that they were inspired by fraternal feelings toward the American revolutionaries.
There is a big difference between the typical strategic leaking by wonkish types in DC and releasing classified information to the media.

The first will get you fired.

The second will get you prison and/or death.

As someone who has friends who are currently in harm's way, anything that hurts their chances of coming back in one piece is worthy of my scorn.