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* Documentation aimed at Eclipse users who are familiar with Java and .net that like cutting edge web technologies, rather than existing web developers.

Eclipse users? How could you tell that the documentation is aimed at Eclipse users? What is it about documentation that could make it Eclipse user biased?

* No npm, and little documentation emphasis on running on servers

Dart is a different language to javascript so its got it's own package manager called pub. If you google "dart package manager" you will find it straight away. If you look at any dart documentation or examples you will see references to it. Did you expect that if you change your programming language you would have the same package manager? No other programming language has npm either.

* Poor integration with massive amount of existing JS technologies

I think it's pretty good but they are working to improve it. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972907

* Surprising amount of redundant tokens for a language released in 2011. Semicolons, really?

A surprising amount sounds like there are very many indeed. Apart from delimiters like semicolons and braces (which have advantages in a modern language and are used by many) can you list some of the other redundant tokens? Dart seems very terse to me.

* Most importantly: it's been three years and Dart has made little to no impact on the world of frontend development. Even non-production Dart use is unheard of on frontend circles, and has less users than coffeescript or Typescript.

Remember that Dart was opened up long before it was recommended as being stable. Even at that, can you name one other language where the user had some choice (unlike, say, js) that had widespread adoption in a 3 year timeframe?
I am worried for Hacker News.

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Russia doesn't help itself with its oppressive paranoia.
Russian intelligence agencies had access to everything all along. Every big telecom in Russia is obliged to implement the necessary procedures.
Or many customers in the US. For most consumers you have one choice of broadband provider due to local government monopoly grants. It's either comcast, or verizon or another big telco/cable company, but rarely is there a second equivalent option.
um no the Chinese army's main role is supressing internal dissent.
Why? Are you worried it might bring forward discussions about race superiority and that kind of crap?

In my opinion, this study can start a reasonable discourse on the difference between education systems.
> This sentence worries me the most. [deletia]

Amazing, after the most naive and historically inaccurate characterization of the EFF's defense of freedom(s), you're worried? NOT SURPRISING.

PS: Felons are already prohibited from associating, and racist remarks intended to embarrass is a perfect example of protected speech. Just don't confuse legal defense with social acceptability. The public isn't as exacting as the law.
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Reality Surpasses Fiction and this was close enough.

Inside the Paleo movement there is a "cold therapy" trend. Its main contributor is Ray Cronise. You can watch a TED talk [1] and visit his web site [2]. His latest contribution is a scientific paper, co-authored with David Sinclair (yes, the resveratrol guy). It is titled "Metabolic Winter Hypothesis" [3] and it is quite interesting.

In simple terms, the rationale is the same as for the food leg of the paleo movement: Food availability is hurting us badly; warm "availability" is doing the same, so we better get some time in a colder environment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ_ldCwKUQ
[2] http://hypothermics.com/home/
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24918620
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Good question. Catholics, care to weigh in on sites taken down?
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I prefer not to give any numbers (not even ballpark). It is extremely dependent on the benchmark, the JS engine, execution order (which function is optimized first, and/or inlined, ...).

Things get more complex if you want to implement the double/integer distinction that exists in Dart. That would either require to box integers or doubles, or to come up with some kind of tagging.
Just getting paid is hardly good enough. You're getting paid to sit on the sidelines and not work? Ask anybody who's been unemployed for a year how toxic that makes you to future employers. You might very well never work again at anything approaching your old salary. And, no, your explanation of how it was due to a non-compete will not matter.
There's a lot of money in making developers and tech businesses feel dissatisfied with whatever they have, regardless of whatever they need. I think one of the things we haven't really tackled that much is actual dishonesty in the industry, as in, how much of the fire and brimstone is really, really, just an attempt to sell you x or promote the one niche someone is comfortable in. Maybe we don't want to think of software as something higher than glorified laundry detergent, even though the same market rules apply to it.

Then, the people that actually are doing the right stuff are probably already busy doing the right stuff, and we rarely hear them -- or they just don't bother, seeing it'll be drowned in the noise anyway.
Not true that no one cares about the success, but football is just much more popular than rally. Motor sports are incredibly expensive to practice and you can't expect them to have the popularity of cheap "universal" sports like football.
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From discussions on HN, this is also common in the US finance sector.
What makes you think that a democratic government is different from any other system of government in this regard? It's funny how ideology and reality never seem to align, isn't it?
Which country are you in? That's a great clause to have.
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Wrong conclusion. There's a difference between bad idea and bad execution.

MailChimp is a business site. Twitter and Facebook are personal mediums. There's a mismatch. As a manager, I wouldn't want my employees using personal mediums for business (I have no control), and conversely, as an employee, I don't want to be logged into Facebook from work, or share my Facebook information with businesses. I would never log in to MailChimp with either of those.

On the other hand, we use Google Apps for Business. I use that as a common login for everything that supports it. Most businesses use Google for business in some form (if nothing else, Google Docs or Youtube or similar), so even if not Google Apps, there's already some integration.

Single sign-on is much more secure than either managing 100 different passwords, or having 100 different businesses managing my password. It's much more convenient. It's just a clear win.
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Ha. I didn't know about that. Interesting.

Part of the problem of parodying some of this stuff is that it's self-parodying. I keep thinking about what would happen if "Brad Bradstone" tries Soylent.
Google is moving into semantic searches. Stuffing was bad and in recent times got even worse. I mean, do those guys like...I mean... do they even use Adwords Planner?

We recently made a WP based site who hit #1 in local kws, getting in front of Wikipedia even. But what we did was an experiment (100% white) and until we try it out on international, to confirm, I can't share.

Google is moving past stages where simple gaming doesn't give meaningful results anymore.
This is all about their ability to censor and has nothing to do with the stated reasons (combating piracy / protecting the privacy of Russian citizens and other fig leafs).

If you want to know the real motivations for this then it helps to remember Putin's origins and articles like this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-telecoms-watchdog...

The rest of Europe does not (for now) share any of those motivations with the Russian rulers.
and lower in the ones with more recent wars too.
Yes, otherwise it would be trivial to override labor laws via contract. For all they seem like dolts to us, this isn't the administrative class's first barbeque. Attempts to end-run around the law are regularly shot down.
In short, there's no performance requirement?
Being an advocacy organization does not require such gross distortion of the facts.

I like the EFF, but I've stopped putting any kind of credibility into their different blog posts and articles.
Just stop this craptastic argument of "every government is the same". Another favorite argument taken directly from putinbots social media guidance.

And stop using strawman arguments. No government is perfect but there are degrees of corruption in the government. Russian government is extremely corrupt, Iceland government is a little bit corrupt. One is better than another. God, do I really have to post trivia on HN?
The number of seconds per hour probably won't change, but repeating `// seconds per hour` as a comment everywhere you use the number 3600 seems a little silly when you can just use a constant.

The next programmer doesn't need to see those digits at all, they're nothing but a distraction.
Yea, I've been wanting to make a firefox version as well but never made a firefox extension before. I'll be working on this next.

Oh yea, I fixed the firefox issue. Was a minor css error regarding 100% height.

Thanks!
I don't agree. The difference is you vote for your own government (Russia has a democratic voting system, how the candidates are selected...well...). If you vote in a government that does that to its people, that's your business.

Foreign governments owe you nothing, you can't reasonably complain about them abusing your rights if you put them in a position where they can.
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Agreed, economic war, geopolitics, power plays, bravado, provocation, badgering, undermining, not military war.
I'm wondering if this is a direct attack on Livejournal, which is still incredibly popular in Russia, used for political dissent, and hosted in the US...
Recently I have been looking at the numbers and wondering if we are kidding ourselves.

Consumer sales transaction numbers are trivial
It fails as a remittance vehicle due to the buy/sell delta
Chinese moving money offshore 58% inflate transactions/price
Bitcoin playing mother hen to alt-coin falsley aids price
You'd never buy if calc replenishment costs
Mining it's wasteful and inefficient

My prediction is Bitcoin will be a casualty of showing the way but not having the legs to deliver. In part because of flaws in its design and in part because open-source projects lack direction.

Positively, I'm certain cryptos are here to stay and we will see the currency of the future emerge in the next year or two.

One last thought, it's money going into Bitcoin investment or rather crypto - infrastructure?
If you have clients that are willing to switch firms to stay with a particular person, is that person not just as much part of the product as the financial instruments hes selling? If my doctor switches practices, but he knows my medical history, is the doctor not as much part of the service as the medicine itself? Would it be appropriate for a practice to keep that doctor from working as a doctor somewhere else because of competition?
Is the difference between say 97 and 101 IQ really significant?

I'd attribute the scores that are lower than 90 (or maybe 95, or 98, I don't know) directly to lackings regarding national education, but does fluctuation among the others really mean something?
I just checked. All the major drug dealers' sites are up.

You probably just meant the drugs sold by cartels. I mean, just the non-American cartels. I mean, the ones selling drugs we have made illegal here. No, not those, I mean dangerous drugs. That kill/maim users. No, I'm not talking about alcohol or tobacco or thalidomide. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. Right?
These examples showcase the importance of typesetting as much as they do typeface choice. Proper hierarchy, contrast and layout can extend the ability of the typeface individually to do a lot more than seems plausible when seen in isolation.
Yeah shouldn've have said 'EU' but rather name countries. Still; everything I read so far contains 'within reason', the Finnish rules as well which means that when it gets to court (if ever) it'll be thrown out for most as non-competes are not reasonable in a lot of cases. Especially, like you say, for executives / top managers who actually carry deep knowledge of the company which can hurt them going to the competitor.
Double Stealth - No one knows what we're up to and we are not to sure either.
I believe that's the point yes. But, wouldn't this apply to any party who operates the network in between users as well?
Many European gambling sites filter and self regulate users by origin country - to prohibit US users from gambling. In most countries here online gambling is legal and regulated, but there were a few cases in 2005 where US police arrested UK citizens - company directors - coming through their borders, for being involved in online gambling. As a result, most gambling operators decised it's safest to just block business from the US.
But the customer info turned over is not necessarily the guilty party either. If you have free wifi in your cafe now you're responsible for anything illegal your clients do?

It's a bad judgement on all counts.
Yes, based on your argumentation, your anonymous profile and your posting history, there is a big chance that you are paid to post here.

Don't really care about your opinion, but other HN readers should know about the situation with Russian propaganda on social media:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhimler/2014/05/06/russias-m...
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There is a quote in this article (which is actually comparing Scots and English legal systems in this area) suggesting:

Public law is not at base about rights, even though abuses of power may and often do invade private rights; it is about wrongs – that is to say misuses of public power; and the Courts have always been alive to the fact that a person or organisation with no particular stake in the issue or the outcome may, without in any sense being a mere meddler, wish and be well placed to call the attention of the Court to an apparent misuse of public power.

http://www.jonathanmitchell.info/2010/06/13/standing-in-publ...
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Agreed, that was a stunningly beautiful way of showing fonts. They're not just showcasing the typesetting, they're also relating the emotion of it by using specific passages of text from different places that match the spirit of the font. I can't believe no-one ever thought to do this before, but I'm still very surprised to see it though.
It was the kids' names that tipped me off. Dagwood and Spaniel? At least I hoped it was a parody after that part.
We had a hydraulic accumulator in the machinery for making MDF at work, and it scared the crap out of me. Priming it involved filling the reservoir with roughly 10 standard high pressure nitrogen bottles, and then compressing that further. The basic idea is that it is an air spring that you use to store energy.

I am ok with sitting in the stands while cars fly through the air, but I am not comfortable knowing that these three guys are going to make a big breakthrough storing that much energy, in a very unstable form and then put it near paying customers.

I have no problem believing that the first stage of the project can work, but this is the sort of thing that won't scale that well.
I just fixed the firefox bug. I'm using absolute positioning and firefox has an issue with "height:100%" when the parent's height hasn't been set.
Is this is the "big brother" plan to eradicate anonymity services? Just argue "child porn!" and arrest everyone?

The law quoted was:

>Not only the immediate perpetator commits a criminal action, but also anyone who appoints someone to carry it out, or anyone who otherwise contributes to the completion of said criminal action.

Anyone who contributes? Wouldn't this include ISPs or perhaps even the application server technologies (HTTP, FTP) used? Or clients, browsers and picture viewers?

In any case, kudos to this guy. I can't imagine what he's going through: PTSD, having all his hardware taken away, dealing with clueless police.
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Don't forget to enjoy your water paleo diet while treading. Since humans evolved from the sea it's only natural for our bodies to eat a sea plants like kelp and sea weed. A strict diet of sea plants is the only natural diet.

/sarcasm
Lato is the sixth one in the showcase.
1. I had nothing to worry about because they said verbally they'd never enforce it. 2. I had to sign it anyway because everybody has to sign it, no exceptions (but their verbal assurance of non-enforcement should be good enough for me)

First, I feel your pain here, word for word. I didn't have the same experience as you did in clause 3, but clause 1 and 2 were exactly as I've experienced.

I'd like to say this means we were dealing with the same company but I know we probably weren't.

Second, IANAL, but there is a difference in case-law between making someone sign a non-compete as part of a job offer, and having someone sign a non-compete as part of continuing employment. I'd try to argue that making you sign an agreement on your first day counts in the latter class. But IANAL.

Also, dropping an IP agreement on someone after they quit their old job is unconscionable.
I'd add that telling a potential employer you're willing to learn or you'll learn whatever they teach you is next to meaningless as well. All the time a more senior developer spends teaching you or answering questions is time lost. We had a guy volunteer to work for free, but he was green, didn't even know the tools. That's too much 'on the job trainng' anyone here was willing to take on.
>>I just can't stand it if people jump to conclusions and form a mob without even bothering to listen to both sides of the story.

Dude, this isn't a "he said, she said" scenario. We have written evidence, in the form of SMS messages and much more, that paints a very clear picture of the situation.

I mean, did you read the complaint at all?
love this.

I use Raleway, its is a beautiful typeface IMHO

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I think you're making the point of the parent commenter, which is that getting a bunch of devs to agree on the 'best' way to write code ends up in a nitpicking session.

That's been my experience. I've yet to work on or with a team that has been able to resolve the concept of a consistent coding standard.
It's work in progress, but in the app you can subscribe to get updates on new features as we release them. We used to share news this way with our own users of our iPhone games, and thought it would be a viable platform for others to Show & Tell what they are working on.
Some have made that argument, but EU companies are also subject to disclosure laws. E.g. Regulation of Investigative Powers Act (RIPA) in the UK. So it is unclear whether this would affect anything.

That said, one of the objections that caused the Data Retention Directive to fall in the EU courts was privacy considerations, so who knows. To find out we'll need a lawsuit.
Please consider freeing the data and make it downloadable as a simple CSV. I'd like a list of all of the sites blocked by particular ISPs...
It's there (the Unity / Rhythm / Balance... example)!
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The article makes a few good, if basic, points. But, dear me, the English is appalling. Reads like someone let loose a wild babelfish.

That aside, as Winston Churchill said (or rather, as Nazi propaganda claimed he said even though he never did - which is quite apt in this context), "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself."
Yep, it's same here in Slovenia:

The original employer must continue to pay a "significant" part of employees pay as long as non-compete is in effect and has to state clearly that they will do so in 14 days after the employee has left the company. Otherwise the non-compete is void.
Those are one of the few types of non-competes that are enforceable in California. Otherwise, the majority of non-competes in America, by raw count, are not about owners selling the company.
Oh, I just noticed it. But it's only the title, the rest is Merriweather.
Firstly, the UK doesn't have the same concept of constitutionality.

Secondly, this isn't a normal damages action; have a look at http://www.dataprotectioncompany.co.uk/8-dpc-news-articles/1... . It's a complaint to the relevant tribunal phrased in ECHR language. If the complaint is denied, there's an appeal to the court in Strasbourg. What happens there is harder to predict, but crucially it's in no way part of the UK government.

The full complaint can be found by googling "privacy international hacking case grounds". It references R(Bancoult) http://www.blackstonechambers.com/news/cases/r_bancoult.html , in which Wikileaks was ruled inadmissible, specifically to contradict it by saying that extensive discussion of the spying means it is no longer secret.

It also references the ironically named Liberty v. United Kingdom: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-... which relates to phone hacking back in 1999 under the previous legal regime. It's worth noting that that case (a) found the surveillance unlawful but (b) ordered the UK to ... pay £7500 costs. The new case has a request for an injunction against the UK doing it again. (It shouldn't normally be necessary to enjoin people from doing things once they have been found unlawful, but this is GCHQ we're dealing with)
Came here and to post this too. It's really a shame how the current system of law enforcement is designed to destroy completely destroy people.

I'm idling in some of the same public IRC channels as will (since way before he was raided for running a TOR node) it was/is painful to watch how this completely destroyed him.

It has really put me off, and probably many others, from ever hosting a TOR node, which might what makes this even worse. If you want to help people in heavily censored (or monitored, but what would be every single one of them, as of now) countries you get punished and your life gets completely ruined.

Seriously, the guy was like 20 or so when the police raided his home because of a TOR relay. Financially and mentally ruining someone when he didn't even do anything wrong is just... It makes me really angry.
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Isn't the average IQ by definition 100?