skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one, there's greater value placed on these competitions outside the United States. Inside the US, a talented programmer will default to working on open source in order to get noticed or create a portfolio worth talking about.

Outside the US, many young programmers believe that companies actually care about these kinds of programming competitions. This is my own experience, I haven't seen a study on this but have observed it to be true personally.

Anecdotal evidence:
http://www.quora.com/Recruiting/For-a-software-engineer-who-...
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There are also push-pull semantics which try to the the best of both worlds.
Instagram Hires New Ad Chief
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From wikipedia :

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A special version of Chromium (the open-source browser at the core of Google Chrome) comes with the Dart virtual machine, allowing it to run Dart programs.[19] As of May 2013, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software's Opera browser, and Apple Safari have no plan to embed a separate Dart VM.[citation needed]

Dart source code can be compiled to JavaScript, allowing applications written in Dart to run in all modern web browsers. In the M1 version, released in October 2012, the generated JavaScript reached about 78% of the performance of hand-written JavaScript while native Dart code ran about 21% faster than similar code in V8.[6]

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So for me :
No browser except a special version of chromium, and slower than javascript whend compiled in it. So NO ...

We have a lot of problem to have some standards on the web (css anyone ? ) , we fight with ie6, so taking such a non standard is nope.
In other words Amazon is no different than the existing credit card companies (Visa, MC, AmEx, ect...), the existing merchant services, and the retailers themselves who all collect that data for purposes of selling to third parties and use for in house marketing.

Brick and Mortar retailers are concerned about being able to conveniently accept payment and minimizing service charges for the convenience of accepting non-cash payment.

Ideally retailers wouldn't have to accept cards, they would only accept cash, cash = no service charge by a third party. However, that is the whole point of the financial industry to create an economy that permits middle men to take a percent of every transaction (as you say "grow thanks to your hard work"). Why have a store and sell anything when you can have someone else do the work and get a % of every transaction? But Amazon is not the first to do it.
Why Didn't Someone Tell me my Eyes Didn't Work?
Seriously? Why have I been taught all wrong my whole life? This video just blew my mind.
Hey, I am one of the guys behind this. Would love to hear your feedback on the landing page of our upcoming beta.
... and single character ASCII non-UTF-8 variable names.

... and no types. So if a and b are strings in a "mostly string-ish language" then the value of b is "101" halfway thru and "111" at the end, right?

(I'd cut them a break if they used a single expressive and meaningful kanji even ifs only one glyph, although I'm struggling to think of a kanji that implies type and a compiler smart enough to understand the type embedded in the kanji... although it could happen)
That ignores the viewpoint that the phenomenon of patent trolls imposes a cost on society itself, by slowing down innovation in general. Efforts such as this are a stop-gap until we can figure out the laws and policies which can eliminate them.
I do know the "true bottom", but it is 200 pages of documents, and will depend on the mix of debit cards, Amex, and card levels such as Business/Signature/etc, and international, and average transaction amount.

If you are interested Visa alone, then the latest fee schedule is here:

http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/Visa-Interchange-Reim...

1.45%-1.65% + $0.10 is a very common interchange for retail. The 1.75%+$0.00 pricing is going to be zero margin for them. If some merchant just uses Amazon for Amex, they will lose on that merchant. If the merchant primarily serves debit card customers, Amazon will make a small amount of money.
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Apple's Swift falls back to earth after initial surge
Hey, the URL seems to not work. "http://beta.dweet.io/"
There's a ton of businesses that can never move online. Food service is obviously a big one. Pretty much anything that requires face-to-face interaction or needs to be delivered near real-time (caricature artist on the beach, personal trainer, babysitting service).
Ask HN: My NYC AirBNB Internet is down, best place to hack near Hells Kitchen?
I'm in Hells Kitchen, NYC but the internet in my AirBNB is down.

Any suggestions on quiet places with good WiFi where I can get some stuff done?
Only if you sign up by November, and "1.75% per swipe until January 1, 2016". It's 2.5% after that. I guess you could switch back, but by that time Amazon could have already used your data against you. No such thing as a free lunch!
Another interesting item I hadn't heard before is that Snowden tried to leave clues as to which files he copied, and which files he looked at but didn't take:

But he believes the NSA's audit missed those clues and simply reported the total number of documents he touched—1.7 million. (Snowden says he actually took far fewer.) “I figured they would have a hard time,” he says. “I didn't figure they would be completely incapable.”
your point 1 proves what I was saying: it's technically very easy to defend against Chinese spies -- just enact more stringent ethnic profiling. I'm not saying this is desirable, but even at very high level it clearly restricts attacking surface quite dramatically. The difficulties are political rather than technical in nature.

I partially agree with your point 2, but "according to American counterintelligence" the sky is falling every other day unless the spooks get more money and less supervision. Relying on government sources in a thread about Snowden feels a bit weird.
While I'm for technological progress, I prefer to live in an environment where small entrepreneurs can thrive, which requires me to be skeptical when a giant, borderline-monopolistic company comes along with 'new technology' that's true purpose appears to be to subvert small business owners and take their customers.
Sharing my experience here. I have had a standing desk for over 6 months. I built it myself and cannot adjust the height, but I am actually really happy about that. I have a high stool I can sit on whenever I want. I don't know how much I stand and how much I sit, I just sit whenever I feel like it but stand for most of the time. I think that's the key. Not having fixed rule but listen to how you feel and always have the possibility to sit. The fact that I don't have to adjust my desk makes me more flexible, I can sit for just 10 seconds sometimes. My legs felt heavy during the first few weeks, but now I feel great and it gave me a lot of energy. The only drawback is that I have such thick skin on my heels now that I lost sensitivity there. But heel sensitivity was not a feature I was really holding on to...
Chromebooks sales will triple – is Microsoft right to fear them?
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The Media is full of shit (but you don’t have to be)
Reverse engineering a compromised TOR browser bundle
The Chinese spies are not in the NSA. They're in the Beltway Bandit and Silicon Valley companies, copying the source code for the drivers used in industrial machinery and weapons systems.

They are smart enough to make spying into a profitable business instead of just a mechanism to move tax dollars to the right people. And with respect to using it as a tool of oppression, we simply don't have anything new to teach them, as they just don't need to know anything about FISA courts or parallel construction.
Girl with one leg wants to Dance
Fascinating read. Thanks for posting.

I did get a chuckle out of the header: "21st century operations using 21st century technologies". The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I think it has always used Verdana for text and Courier for input & code. http://web.archive.org/web/20070405032412/http://news.ycombi... What does your browser render it as? (Right-click -> Inspect Element, click "Computed" at the top of the right-hand pane.)

Edit: oh, now it's "Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" where it used to be "Verdana, sans-serif". So if you have Geneva but not Verdana, and Geneva was not already your sans-serif font, it will look different.
Not to mention the cost of slowing down the legal system, as in TX and DE. Courts have tended to side with plaintiffs, so all the trolls go there.
Uber Adds Turn-By-Turn Directions To Its Driver App
Great article. Snowden's closing thoughts make me excited about the idea of mesh networking with all these mobile devices in our pockets. Hopefully Google or Apple will give it the push it deserves. (Apple is already taking baby steps in this direction with its Multipeer Connectivity API.)
Also, I guess most of the merchants who sign up will be first-timers who accept cash before. Information from these people are what Amazon needs. Let's say in certain region there has been high sales of tea cups, I won't be surprised if one day Amazon starts suggesting its tea cup selections to buyers from that region, with free shipping and lower prices...
Wow, I've been saying "X it" for years but never even caught that it sounds like "exit".
Oh I meant wary (I'd missed the distinction between those two words until now), thanks!
Alt-F-S
Alt-F-X

Used many times.
Any idea who their data provider is? They have a deal with Google Maps? That would be interesting because the Maps API explicitly prohibits turn-by-turn navigation use cases, and many startups in this space use either OpenStreetMap or a licensed provider like TomTom / Nokia Navteq.
This was the logical next step, but they seem to have something against solo founders, and I am averse to taking on a co-founder ONLY to appease.

Edit: Not opposed to taking on a cofounder if they provide an adequate amount of value other than pacifying incubator/accelerator/investor fears.
The websocket support in QEMU allows you to connect with noVNC directly without using a websockify (proxy/bridge). You can still choose to connect to the regular VNC port using the proxy, but if you activate websockets then you can connect without it. The same is true now with libvncserver based VNC servers (e.g. x11vnc)
"Money transfers to new suppliers always take a bit of faff to setup"

How so? If I want to send money to a UK bank account to which I've not send money before, I:

1. Open my bank's app on my phone

2. Tap 'send money'

3. Type in the amount, the 6-digit sort code, the 8-digit account number, the person's name

4. Hit 'Send'.

It's a little slower than swiping a card, but it also feels safer, as I don't have to give someone physical access to my card.
TypeScript and CoffeeScript are better in this space. Much more like JavaScript.

TypeScript in particular, brings something like ES6 to today's browsers.
> a certain degree of internal propaganda going on in US media

The movie industry is one of the very powerful tools for shaping the public opinion in the US. This obviously includes TV series ("24" is an example for not-so-subtle manipulative material).
Thanks for this! Do you have any recommendations for further reading?
By that reasoning, you can justify subsidizing any for-profit business, on the grounds that nearly all of them generate some consumer surplus. If you're worried about innovation, cut out the middle man and donate to a university or non-profit R&D lab.

Don't get me wrong. I spent my engineering career at small and startup tech companies, and I think they're an amazing part of the ecosystem. But let's be real: they're for-profit businesses, funded by rich investors, and usually run and staffed by privileged, educated people. They can fend for themselves. There's so many people out there who cannot, who are far more worthy of our public support.
There is also opal, which looks pretty promising. http://opalrb.org
1.75% may be competitive and better than rates of some merchants receive; however, I had a negotiated rate of .4% for one of my businesses.

One of the problems with the entire industry is misinformation, unlevel playing field (inability for your average merchant to negotiate the best rates), and the unscrupulous nature of the sales tactics of the merchant services themselves.
Just the copy: https://www.readability.com/articles/42wfcyub
JsonResume v1.0 – now with internationalization, responsive design and more themes
A minor point, the article says that Hypatia of Alexandria was killed by Christian Zealots which is true except it was for non-religious reasons but rather political and it was in a city and time where public political executions were common. Maybe some women have had difficulty with their math, not in my experience but maybe elsewhere, but not Hypatia, she was not killed for her mathematics.[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia#Death
Discover Swift with this One Weird Rubyist
Our intention is to pay the developer. Of course, there'd be nothing stopping the developer from paying out to users as well.

Happy to get more feedback!
This is delightfully ironic
Hijacking your comment, sorry.

I just downloaded the app and went hunting. It indeed connect to some service, more specifically it creates a webview (think iframe but better separated) with url "https://www.diigo.com/account/thirdparty/openid?openid_url=h... (which you should totally not access with a logged in google account, or in any other way).

It then adds several callbacks one of which handles loading stopped which causes the app to send a command "handshake" to the app. I have so far found two, one of which is a response to the handshake and the other is a command "launch" which opens the index.html command with a given title and data url.

This shit has China written all over it - and I mean so literally because the bg.js file has the following user information at the top, with a Chinese date:

/
* User: xiaoge
* At: 14-5-19 5:52下午
* Email: abraham1@163.com
*/

Will keep digging. So far I haven't found out what it is it sends, but it does request access to both your google drive account and (most worringly) to your EMAIL.

This is definite no install.

_Edit_: Remember what I said about your email info? Awesome screenshot can upload your screenshots to your gdrive, it does so using oauth2, which tells us the client that has access to it. In this case the app signs in as awesomescreenshot.com/client, but use https://secure.diigo.com/kree as the actual signin url - which means that they now have access to your gdrive files.
Murder suspect asks Siri where to hide a dead body
Currently, it is not very compelling, it is well engineered but different enough to fuel enthusiasm.

But if someone produces something interesting with it, all can change...as soon as tomorrow.
One business type I can see this making sense for is food trucks, as I don't see amazon going into that business anytime soon if ever. Beyond that I tend to agree with you that giving amazon even more data seems like a horrible idea.
That's actually not such a bad idea. I have just a single pixel border around the left/right/bottom at the moment, just so I can see the edge of overlapping terminal windows. I have to say I wouldn't miss the titlebar much either.
The NSA , not Assad, took Syria off the Internet in 2012
My developer experience with Dart was not a good one. The most succinct way that I read from other developer experiences on the internet was, "It's the worst parts of Java brought into Javascript". Not intended as a trolling statement, but like other folks have posted, it didn't strike me as having provided interesting value/productivity gain.
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> python/ruby ... in the browser

not a good idea. any fullfledged programming language that can operate in the browser becomes a significant security risk. even with sand-boxing, if you can break out of the sandbox, then you have access to a full-fledged language with all of it's power. This is the reason Java has got a bad rap; it's due to the use of Applets in the browser from which people have repeatedly broken out of the sandboxing and then can execute arbitrary code on your system (without your knowledge).

The only safe and secure way to have a language run in the browser, is if it just simply does not have the capabilities that could harm your system (ie. write directly to the disk, execute other local code, etc). If the language just can't do it, then there's no sandbox to break out of and due harm with. One of the (many) reasons Javascript has been successful. (I'm a Java developer)
I've had similar experiences, not just with myself but with a number of the other front-end developers I've worked with.

I'd say the major problem is inertia: why switch when Javascript is working "well enough?" Dart does offer some degree of type safety, however it doesn't really have any killer features that make it a huge sell to the existing Javascript community.
Contrast this with Coffeescript which provides a complete overhaul of Javascript's syntax to appeal to many web developers, especially those coming from a Python or Ruby background. It leaves the semantics the same with only a few syntactic sugars like classes and the fat arrow. To the fans of Coffeescript, both of these are the killer features that make them want to use it.
Compare 1.75% Per Swipe (till 2016) vs. Square's 2.75%. For most small businesses, that's a huge difference.
Elastic Tabstops[1] are the solution, but support is too patchy, and getting a team to agree on tabs vs spaces for line indents is hard enough, without then getting them to all follow elastic tab practices for laying out aligned content.

[1] http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
That explains why it's not used in production. What I don't understand is why the idea of replacing Javascript with something better hasn't been embraced. Maybe Dart isn't actually better but I don't see anyone arguing that and that is the interesting substantial question.
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It's actually extremely likely. The chance that any two statuses are anagrams is miniscule, and even the chance that a particular status has an anagram among all other statuses is probably small, but the chances that there are no collisions at all is tiny.

See a description of the Birthday Paradox[1] for the mathematics behind this. For example, if you put 70 people in a room, there is a 99.9% chance that two people share a Birthday.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
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hey, there is a great lesson about all webgl for beginner
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Hope you like this.
The only thing that even supports it is a special version of Chromium so why would anyone support it.

If we could use it in mainline Chrome/Chromium then maybe it could start to take off but currently the install base is way smaller than even Chromes.
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If this is indeed a true story, and if the question is correctly quoted in the article, I really wonder why and how it happened that a "hiding" question returned dumps and swamps...
I had the exact opposite experience. I was vastly more productive in Dart then in JavaScript. The code result was also more clear and understandable. I would say "readable", but often pretty looking code is as understandable as the Brain Fuck language.
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This is an awesome response, thank you very much!
Good Technical Debt Analogy
What are you talking about? Javascript is a full-fledged programming language. You can argue that certain languages are more or less difficult to sandbox, but then I'd be interested in knowing why this is. I think what actually happened is that they gave up on the idea of Java applets, and that led to it becoming a security hazard, not any fundamental property of the difficulty of sandboxing it.
I have people at my office tell me that all the time. That they have some awesome idea but won't tell me what it is unless I sign an NDA. If they aren't willing to tell me about their idea when the first bring it up, I don't even entertain the conversation. I'll just tell them good luck with the project and change the conversation.
As a bear I will fall in love with the lunch tube.
Thank you - appreciate the reply.
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How can we escape this ?
Do you mean to say that Square is different in this approach? Everyone wants your data and it's the price you pay to obtain this technology.
I've made a reformatted copy for easier reading:

https://github.com/pflanze/wired-snowden-untold-story/blob/m...

(Plain text version in the history, at https://github.com/pflanze/wired-snowden-untold-story/blob/c...)
What is Hacker News
Hello community, forgive me for making this question, i don't try to troll neither to make you loose your time, but can some one please explain me what this site is about? whats the difference between HN and Reddit or Slashdot, is HN more elite etc. than the other sites? i see some similar questions in here that exist also at Reddit, can i join this site although i have no specific skills to something particular, what i must post around here to suite your style or mentality.

tl/dr: Is HN an uber elite site? can noobs join in?.

Thanks
There is a Fidelity-branded Amex card that gives 2% on everything, with no annual fee. There are several other cards that give 2% on everything (Capital One Venture, Barclay Arrival+) but that bear annual fees.
> not a good idea. any fullfledged programming language that can operate in the browser becomes a significant security risk.

JavaScript is as much of a full-fledged programming language as Python or Ruby. What makes the browser implementation of JS more limited than typical "native" Python or Ruby is exposed APIs, not language features. There's no reason a Dart/Ruby/Python in-browser environment would need to expose any more of the underlying system than the same browser's JS implementation.
One reason DNSSEC is unpopular is that it fails to address the fact that centralized PKI suffers from tons of problems. Those problems would defeat the purpose of a gesture as serious as putting your gpg key in DNS.
Haven't used Amadeus, but Audacity has been fairly painful. I have had good luck with another free editor Ocen Audio:

http://www.ocenaudio.com.br/download
My AMEX card has 1%/2%/3% depending on merchant category. The higher %s are also capped at some level.
Mozilla more or less killed it by saying they'd never support it.
More like the "shipping of amazon products" market, since I can't exactly ship my stuff with Prime. And I'm pretty sure Amazon was always the only provider in that particular market, so they didn't really do (1).
This is awesome.

Would love to know how more about how the PDF generation works – it's something I've been struggling with!
Wait, let me understand this: if you make less than 1MM in Texas with your corp, you don't pay taxes?
How are TypeScript and CoffeeScript better?

They are both languages that "compile" into Javascript, just like Dart is able to.