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In fact, I've just learned something: My Greek etymology was all wrong, onymous is correct, nonymous is nonsense.

I'd taken the "a" as the "not" (as in "atom"), when in fact the word being negated is "onoma", meaning "having a name".

I'd snarked early and ignorantly, thanks for pointing out my error.
Or rather, why doesn't there seem to be much discussion about new native programming languages in the browser?

JavaScript has many flaws, and there are plenty of languages available that have similar properties as JavaScript that do not exhibit these flaws.
I really wish there way a way of coding for the web that didn't require [backend language] + [front end language] + Javascript (might be the same as previous two) + HTML + CSS. If I want to write a website in Python, I still need to know Javascript, HTML, and CSS, so why bother with Python?
Ubuntu seems to work better than Windows 8 in this regard.

For example, if you hit Windows key + "pref" in Ubuntu, "System Settings" is one of the items that shows up in the list.
I don't think Dart is better. It is better in some ways, but it's not enough. You're not seeing arguments because currently people don't care.

Thing is, Javascript works as a target for other languages. For example ClojureScript and Scala.js are examples of compilers targeting Javascript, amongst many others. So people that want an alternative to Javascript already have options.

From a technical point of view, I think Google made a mistake in designing a new language, instead of a new VM that could be used as a more efficient target for multiple languages, because even though Google tried copying the good parts of Javascript's story, you can't beat the incumbents at their own game. And from a social perspective, Dart is seen as an attempt to fragment the web, so Google's handling of the situation was poor.
Make it legit and add networking too:
http://m.yelp.com/search?find_desc=coworking&find_loc=Hell%2...
edit: Apparently down-voted for including my website that already has features others are saying would be good to add. I have removed my website name. Sorry if I offended more so than others also listing their sites.

This is a great looking option. I've made a similar one with a few additional features:

•Save inputed data for future use (cached for 1 year - no registration)
•Add your own logo
•Generate PDF OR optimized for print.
I'd say that Javascript is currently living a renaissanse, with people creating libraries that make it operate on completely different (and incompatible) paradigms.

Untill we have one (or few) winning paradigm, there is no point in replacing Javascript. Whatever we create will become obsolet before it gets adopted.
Hey guys, I've been working on this for a couple weeks now. It is a bit of a spin off from another site I have and obviously influenced by Producthunt. :)

I would love any feedback you guys could give. This is very much beta. Just trying to stick with the philosophy of releasing an MVP, getting feedback and iterating.

Hope you guys like it but even if you don't, please let me know why. hah.
> if Poitras really lawyered up when asked, chances are that there's something else as well).

Or it is in her (and Snowden's) interest to not say exactly what came from where. If there is a second leaker, confirming it could create or increase the intensity of a witch hunt. If there is not, it would confirm that Snowden may have took more material than he claims.

Either way, there is no benefit to her answering either in the affirmative or negative.

There is also no benefit to answering herself, as she's likely already retained the lawyer because of handling this sensitive material.
I think your argument ignores that such legal assistance would be for small companies or individuals whose enterprise would face an existential threat. Giving money to a university or existing R&D lab would not have the same effect, since the enterprises I'm talking about are new entities in the economy. Because of patent trolls, they may cease to exist. Innovation in principle (such as that that comes from universities) is very different from innovation in practice (such as that which comes from companies).

I agree that many people out there are "more deserving." But take, for example, these students and their professor. Their expertise is in patent law. I find it plausible that the most positive impact they can have on society involves applying their expertise.
I don't get this. Seems like a late entry into a saturated and (at least in Square's case) not that lucrative market. Any insight into why you would do this?
Square is a payment processor, and does not wear the merchant hat. Even if it sells the data, the merchants acquiring the data still needs to pay, bumping up the cost of business.

On the other hand, Amazon is _both_ payment processor and merchant. First it gets transaction fees (due to its volume, I guess it is paying around 1-2% for card transactions) from merchants, not a lot, but I doubt it really cares or plans to earn money from transactions. Second it gets sales analytics, and third, it can adjust its online strategies to match the trends it sees in this data. I would say #2 and #3 would be the whole point of launching this.
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Sivers is a big fan of Distrokid. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519589
You don't get to be the underdog forever. There was a very long period there where people hadn't realized that Apple wasn't the struggling underdog vs. Microsoft anymore as well.

Monopolies are bad, and since all the people on HN are the small business owner (or want to be soon), making people aware of what's going to happen is kind of important.

It's also not new: there are players trying to do this type of thing in every industry. You even see it in medicine.
You think wrong. The inability to reliably restrict access to a rich API library full of dangerous stuff is a fundamental property of sandboxing as an in-language mechanism, or at least Java's sandboxing model.

There's been a steady stream of critical security bugfixes for the Java browser plugin coming out of Oracle for years, and it's never been enough.
Not to mention the letter X sounds like the word "exit," or "ex it." In this way using X as a keyboard command to represent exit might be distinct from the way OP posits X to represent batsu (false, bad, wrong or attack).
They accidentally released the names early, then pulled them. I heard @JSEllenberg tweeted the results right away, but they were supposed to be released after the ceremony.
I've been looking into packet tracing some mobile games that operate entirely online. I'm sure the mobile space is packed to the brim with unrestricted APIs... Thanks for the motivation/tips.
It a threat to their control of the web. Javascript is currently the only real option for client-side software, and Mozilla owns Javascript. Why would they do anything to help Google take that away from them?
> extreme aptitude at a certain type of programming

If you are hiring for aptitude in that type of programming, great. If not, it really doesn't tell you much.

> enthusiasm, dedication, high stress performance, teamwork

It is definitely a good way, but not the only way, to show these intangibles.

> Of course, you won't be able to take someone with an incredibly high capability for understanding complex graph algorithms and plonk them in to every job (front-end stuff might go poorly), but chances are they'll be able to find something to their liking at Google, Facebook etc fairly easily.

And yet Google makes their hire/no hire decisions on all software engineers using the exact same interview gauntlet. They give the impression that a software engineer is someone they can plonk into any job. That is my frustration with the industry in its current state. Software engineering is a complex area of practice and, in my opinion, has outgrown the notion of the universal software engineer. Software engineering needs to develop true specializations, like electrical engineering, and evaluate people based on their area of expertise. The type of coding these programming competitions exercise is just one specialization, albeit a very important specialization for certain classes of problem.

For the record, I am not trying to belittle the achievements of those who excel at competitive programming. In fact, I think its awesome and these kids will be valuable contributors to the profession later. My argument is against the notion that programming like this should be viewed as prototypical and expected of anyone who wants to be considered good at software engineering.
But there are so many places that Amazon does not compete with that there is a market for this. Obviously a small book store might not want to do this but what about restaurants, coffee shops, the plumber that comes to fix your toilet (or any service industry), the local tap room, and so on.

Edit: Sorry, the idea of Amazon opening restaurants, coffee shops or tap rooms (which would also mean they start brewing their own beer) reminds me of this scene from Judge Dredd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFiDoOgRTpk (Now All Restaurants are Taco Bell)
Myself I prefer LESS since it's closer to CSS.

I believe most people using SASS do because of Rails.
> Steve Jobs: son of a mechanic/carpenter ...

Sorry, no. Steve Jobs was an orphan.

> Attended an expensive private college.

Dropped out of Reed College.

> Richard Branson: born the son of a barrister and grandson of a knighted member of the High Court.

These are genetic references, not financial ones. Genetics isn't the issue under discussion.

You managed to overlook the fact that none of the examples had inherited money at the time of their greatest success. Attending an exclusive school is certainly no assurance of later success, often the contrary, and can't be equated with the classic case of inheriting family money.

> Being merely well-off to start with is also family money.

That twists the earlier premise so far as to render it meaningless. And how can the orphan Steve Jobs be described as "well-off to start with"?
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There are too many tools. One can drown in tools and still not do anything.

We try to keep as simple as possible, until it is not enough. Then we escalate the tool, but only IF experience proves we work less efficient without it.
Love it! Being able to add our company's logo would be super cool too!
Don't use Python then. Prefer a language that has compilers targeting Javascript instead. Candidates that I have tried: Clojure & Scala. And I'm sure there are others. People don't talk that much about it because Javascript being used as a compilation target is a fairly new trend.
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This is a much better link. I posted the original with the the thought that there was some irony that all of the top news articles on the subject (as rated by google news) were completely without substance as to Maryam's accomplishments and only were pointing out that she was a women that does some stuff with curved surfaces. I thought the conversation might follow my observations.

I have to say that I admire Maryam very much. I love her tenacity and abstract approach.
If you can already tell whether or not a patent is invalid under Alice, congratulations, you're smarter than any patent attorney in the country.
Quarantine is one of the BEST ways to stop a disease's spread. These countries don't have the medical infrastructure to risk NOT implementing quarantine.
That's a great idea! I like their small pots that fit in top of a canning jar - to allow people to carry vegetables and humus.

Those glass jars are, however, heavy. I'm already transporting 15 kg of child, plus stuff. Is the additional weight of a heavy glass drink container worth it?

(I also like that these are not "valved" cups, but are "free flow". "Valved" or "no spill" drinking cups for children can cause ear problems.)
Yeah we see that careless phrase all the time - "We turned out fine". Except when we didn't. Its observer bias I think.

My Dad used to say "In my day we didn't throw out food when it had mold; we'd just skim it and cook it again!" My sister came back with "Yeah Dad, and in your day people died for no reason."
Can you provide any more information about this "fraud liability shift"? To whom is fraud liability shifting? By how much is it shifting? Why would such a shift concern Amazon?

EDIT: TIL retailers will have more liability. I suspect Amazon will find a way to pass that on to the actual retailer. Changes like this have a way of getting delayed in USA, as well.
There are some GWT-like things for Python, pyjs and pyjamas. Doesn't get you away from CSS though.
Right and those two players are google and apple. Phone-present transactions with strong authentication and irrefutability would be far cheaper to process. Google had been screwing the pooch for years with android wallet. They should have owned this market years ago.
I like Dart quite a bit. The tools are pretty nice and it has some good features. It's biggest problem from my perspective was the largely unfinished documentation. Many of the methods in the API reference list only signatures. I'd use it for some projects if they ever fix that.
If you don't mind, could you please share how you got such an amazing rate? Were you negotiating on behalf of a huge corporation? Had a lot of sales? Gave them other business?
I question "Unseen in a Century". I lived in Gabon in 2001-2002, and I remember that this was pretty much the way Ebola outbreaks were handled then and there.
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Do you have a source for that (eastern europeans/russians are more adept at mathematics), or is this anecdata?
You do have to read the claims in light of the specification. But I'd say that looking just at one random figure is more wrong than looking just at the claims in isolation.
Now that is a UX-oriented landing page. Jump straight in and use the product.
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I don't understand Adblock Edge. Why use a fork of an old version of Adblock Plus with "acceptable ads" disabled instead of just disabling them yourself in the original (and continuously updated) product?

Are there any changes besides the preconfigured disabling of Adblock's whitelist?
In 20 Million Years...

"Our ancestors traveled the beige tube to new waters, while the two-legged creatures watched and guided them."
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A good way to check is using the "Ad preview and diagnosis" tool in Adwords. You can set the location and see if your ad comes up. It's also a good way to look at raw search results (before google factors in your personal browsing history to serve up customized results).

Location targetting is a little trickier than just setting geotargetting in Adwords. The targetting issues could be Google or could be their account setup. Hard to say without review. Considering there was definitely a bug with the phone number, they should have Google review their account fully.
"Although it's trivial for a properly-programmed client to protect against this downgrade attack,..."

...that defeats the "use TLS when available" argument.
One word: webrtc

Can have security issues if not done correctly.

http://techpageone.dell.com/technology/open-source-webrtc-cr...
Glass leaches heavy metals (mainly lead).
I've been increasingly sceptical of things from Google, because of their track record. That includes the usual losing interest, as well as general people avoidance. Quite simply they are not a safe bet.

That all said it takes time for things to become mainstream. See the Joel article: "Good Software Takes Ten Years" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html

Go dates from 2007, and is currently 8 years old, and is heading into the mainstream. Dart is about 3 years old - it will take more time plus a non-typical Google track record to get there, if it ever does.
More recent benchmarks[1] show 85-91%. IME developer productivity has been far more important than raw performance.

Not sure where the fading away perception is coming from; looks like it's still trending up, or at least staying afloat. [2]

Some barriers to entry:

* still have to interface with old javascript libraries for anything not ported to Dart

* compilation step + debugging. I know there's probably a sourcemap, but that's still more friction than straight javascript.

* learning curve

* pioneers get arrows in their back. Everything new has gotchas people haven't found yet. Javascript has some really shitty corners, but we know all about them.

Dart's pros have to outweigh these. I've only toyed with it, and from a strictly language-vs-language I like it better than javascript. If it gains traction, it'll start with toy projects -> company intranets -> the occasional startup -> small company, etc.

[1] https://www.dartlang.org/performance/

[2] http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=dartlang
> If I want to write a website in Python, I still need to know Javascript, HTML, and CSS, so why bother with Python?

Because you don't want to write your backend in Javascript and you prefer a different language. You don't have to know well only one language in your lifetime.
A crêpe van is one of the friendly examples they have in the carousel on that page.

Although why anyone would buy their decorative paper from the back of a van is beyond me.
Could you provide some more insight on what you're using instead? Cover letters? Github? What if the candidate has only worked on proprietary code?
You've not misunderstood anything, with the quibble that "young children cannot carry weapons in public" unsupervised. A responsible adult is of course required in the situations where that makes sense (hunting and target shooting).

One thing this BBC article clearly is confounding, based on the first anecdote, is the difference between being legally blind and what I'll call 100% blind. Hitting a half size target at 7 yards, equivalent to a real human at 14 yards or 13 meters, means he's not "100% blind". There are quite a few people who in the same test would have trouble keeping all their shots in the black.

Now, assuming he doesn't have a near vision problem, and that the average distance between combatants in a gun fight is 7 and a half feet (2.3 meters), it's plausible he could be a responsible and safe concealed carrier. He at least convinced the skeptics who in due course issued him the license.

Your points about being able to use a gun you're carrying are of course correct. If you're not willing to use it, you shouldn't own it, let alone carry it, guns are not magical talismans, no matter how much they're portrayed as being more than inanimate hunks of metal, plastic and/or wood.
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Yes, human adipose tissue and the liver perform lipogensis. I don't know where I said otherwise. The point is it happens at a very negligible rate in humans on any realistic diet. The process can be ramped up if you go on a truly fat free diet, but that's almost impossible in practice. You can take a fat sample from a human and profile almost exactly what fatty things they usually eat, because stored human body fat is pretty much entirely just dietary fats stored away.
The main problem with CoffeeScript is that you're still talking about the exactly same type system and mostly the same problems, minus some superficial fixes and plus some syntactic sugar.

I prefer more heavy-weight approaches that use Javascript as a compilation target. Clojure and Scala can both compile to Javascript, but you're talking about different communities, libraries and tools, so very much like Dart, but focused on targeting just Javascript VMs.
No, Javascript by design can't do certain things, such as write directly to your disk, read arbitrary data from the disk, control threading at the cpu level, etc.

This was part of the design process in order to make Javascript a "web browser safe" language. Other languages have been modified and browser support "bolted on" after the fact, which leads to the sandboxing, which means if one can escape the sandbox, they have a full language and all of it's features at their disposal. This is dangerous, and can lead, and has led to severe security issues.

Applets are very actively maintained by the OpenJDK and Oracle projects. They are used still today for a lot of things, especially in the banking sector.
The web doesn't need another language. It needs a sandboxable VM which has the DOM as a first class citizen. Dart didn't address that need...it merely provided another language and tried to strongarm its way into becoming a standard.
Remind me again why it's so hard to come up with a better alternative to the current HTML+CSS+JS mess?

Is the only problem the fact that we need a language that can be easily sandboxed? Isn't Lua like that?

Supposing we solve the sandboxing problem, what's the next problem? Offering a decent drawing API? Why not just offer an OpenGL viewport or something like SVG but with interactivity?

I really need to be educated on what is the hard part about this (besides widespread adoption - so I guess I'm wondering what's the technical obstacle).
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I had thought I'd looked it up before but clearly I was mistaken. Luckily superuser2 was here to reduce my naiveté.
> Degrees are used to sort people, but not arbitrarily.

I disagree -- I think the case can be made that the sorting process is largely automatic and disregards individual traits, This is supported by the number of very high achievers who are also dropouts, people who didn't understand or accept that they had already been "sorted".

This certainly isn't meant to suggest that, on average, a degree holder doesn't do better, has a higher income as a result of attending college. But as college costs continue to rise (now increasing faster than any other household expense) the day will come when it no longer makes economic sense.

> Our economy is shifting away from unskilled labor towards skilled labor. You can get those skills without getting a degree, it's just harder (and cheaper) to do.

It may be harder, but it avoids the trap of being taught things in college that are already out of date in a fast-moving world.
> There was a lot of hype for Dart a couple of months/1 year ago and now it seems it faded away. What happened?

I personnaly dont use Dart because IMHO there are better options right now for people who dont like writing raw javascript.

Coffeescript gives the declarative style i want for quick dev.

Typescript gives me the "type safety" that allows managing large codebases.

Clojurescript for other stuff.

The only reason I would use Dart is if Dart was part of the Android dev stack,or Chrome for the public.

I see little reason to use Dart right now,though Dart has some very good libraries,for game development,angular dart ,etc ... So maybe in the future perhaps.

I think Microsoft strategy (Typescript) is a better one.
Please do. I'd be interested.
Nice. EV is of not much use for their embedded form anyway.
You need to automate it if you have more than 1 site. If you have just one site, you can just check the expiry date and put that in your calendar. No need to check it on a monthly basis, no clue why the author of the post would suggest that.
Well one more blow to Square, hope they gonna make it through 2014 but the more I see the less I hope :/