skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Better" is subjective (and I certainly wouldn't consider any dynamic system to be better than dart's) - Dart hits a certain sweet spot IMO, being simpler than a typeclass-based approach but far more usable than Go or Java. TypeScript is pretty nice but gradual, which is its own set of tradeoffs.

Dart has other selling points than the type system, sure, but degrading it to Go-style types would be a serious loss.
It's a question of who gets the last word, though. Originally I thought that web devs should have the last word about IE document mode, because darn it, they own their site. After seeing so many sites that seem to be unmaintained (or maintained by uninformed devs) I am also leaning towards the user having the ultimate say.
While I really like Go's approach to concurrency, I don't think the rest of the language would map well to the browser whose core DOM API is designed around objects, inheritance, and exceptions.
Though it's of course anecdata, this is a huge problem for basically every woman I know who's used the service. Not only is it mostly spam, a lot of it is pretty horrible and demeaning. A few friends post the worst of it to Facebook and tumblr and it's cringe-inducing.

Can't speak to the male side of things, as I haven't used it myself. But I feel gross being lumped in with the things that friends have shown me.
Women receive more messages from men then men receive from women. From complains that women leave in their OKCupid profiles I would say that a lot of these messages are not from people trying to intelligently converse with the women that they are trying to connect with. Seemingly common things:

- Messages that are too short. E.g. "hey babe" doesn't mean much, when a women gets 10 - 20 "hey babe" messages in a day.

- There are men that get frustrated at the lack of response from women, and start turning their messages into "form letters" which don't show any level of having read the woman's profile.

- Initiating conversation with sexual propositions.

- Depending on the platform, sending unsolicited pictures of genitalia.

While some of these might not qualify as "spam" compared to a 419 scammers emails, I would say that wading through all of that seems akin to wading through one's spam folder...
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I agree with you there: AIM was great and more solid than many of the new services.

I'm still a bit puzzled as to how re-inventing instant messaging (WhatsApp) can be the hot new thing worth billions of dollars.
Sure, the gluten-free, organic approach is to drink a lot of lemon juice and keep your gall bladder. But medical science has established that it is an almost completely useless organ, and that it may harm you in some cases. So aside from the risks inherent for any kind of surgery, it is a perfectly reasonable course of action once that organ starts causing problems.
Women generally get lots of low-effort messages, so they start to ignore most of them; men then generally realise that the probability of their messages getting read is low, so it's not worthwhile to put a lot of effort into them, but better to send lots of message to maximise the probability of being seen.
Wonderful video. There are a few more intersting ones on that website (AT&T's archives).

Thanks for posting this.
It was a bug in the kernel, as Torvalds has already admitted.

"Something else" shouldn't break in the first place.

It's obvious you're not a programmer.
IE12 isn't released so I doubt the feature set is fully established. The status.modern.ie site has been mentioned on HN a few times though, and it does have some info. https://status.modern.ie/?term=hsts
I'm logged on my private and dedicated ARM server in the cloud after only 5 minutes ! Impressive. Ask for an invite to @online_fr and give it a try !
I realize that's probably said tongue-in-cheek, but I agree with the statement. The problem with patent trolls isn't that they exist. The problem is that patents are being granted for things that are obvious (Do X, but now on a PC!). And, the courts appear to be correcting that problem.
Just had my app reviewed in hours when average is 11 days; what gives?
What was that in response to? Did you post to the wrong comment? I'm confused.
Darn. Thanks for letting me know. I was thinking of starting to experiment with WKWebView for an app that currently uses UIWebViews.
So I guess FF using WKWebViews (even if they can get over the philosophical/techinical difference with Apple) is some ways off.
I really like this idea ... but:

Give use access to your facebook and $20 a month. In return, you get ONE match a month. If they don't want to meet you, that's too bad. You paid $20 to be rejected.

The two things you would need to do to sell me are:

1) Allow access without facebook. I'd be fine scanning a driver's license for you that matches the name on the credit card I pay with.

2) If you don't provide a good match (i.e.) one that wants to meet me, you should provide another match.
Npm passes 100,000 modules
Yes, that seems to be one of the open questions currently. I also wonder how you deal with the fact that there are so many sizes and distances that TV's are viewed from? That actually might not be very different than mobile or any other situation. There are lots of phone screen sizes and desktop monitor sizes and resolutions. I guess if you are comfortable watching TV then you are most likely at a similar size/distance ratio to most people who are comfortable.
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One approach is clarity.fm, though not as sure as to whether they are getting enough traction.
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Did you create Osmos, the game?
Oh don't be such a pedant. Its a metaphor or whatever - only the cult of classical music appreciates it, and they're not enough to keep expensive orchestras afloat. Like other obscure and nearly extinct art forms.
Actually these days folks like TSMC will take your Xilinx or Altera program file and run it through their converter to make you a copy of that chip as an ASIC.

The challenge is that a metal layer mask for a 300mm wafer (which is pretty much what you need since the FPGA substrate is pretty standard) will set you back about a quarter million dollars. And unfortunately you can't have them make just 1 wafer with it, a cassette holds a minimum number of wafers (last time I was thinking about this it was 6 wafers but that may have changed) and of course you have to schedule them on a line (sometimes called a 'wafer start') and then they will go through an pop out the other side and now you have to dice them up and package them. So you end up with probably 10,000 examples of your ASIC which you've paid about a million and a half for.

One of the amazing changes has been that your FPGA can cost less than your ASIC in small (< 10K) quantities.
APKs receive updates from the Google Play Store - at least free apps do in this respect
Completely and profusely disagree.

What Microsoft has built around Visual Studio, on all stacks (desktop, mobile, cloud), is the result of a lot of developer love. Also - Web Essentials, MVC, JavaScript IntelliSense and debugging - all godsend to the modern web developer.

Believe it or not Ballmer wasn't just exhausting wind when he would scream about "Developers! Developers! Developers!"

Xcode has the same problems described by coldcode - that Apple cares very little. Swift was a step in the right direction but just the first step, let's see where it leads us.
possibly to get the money to the CDC or government organizations, with the expressly stated restricted use being defined in advance by a non-profit or NGO as being for the Ebola response

This attitude - "I gave you money to help x, I only want it to be used on x" is part of the problem. In order for relief agencies to be prepared for the next problem, they need resources on hand that don't have strings attached. But such agencies have learned that if they do this - take money donated at the time of one crisis, and keep it on hand to help with the next crisis - people will be upset.

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Those objections sound reasonable, but why do you think that you only get one match per month? I don't see that text on the front page -- do they tell you later?
Don't forget VB6!
"The public was scandalized by their own violence; the government embarrassed."

One wonders, if there was better coverage of drone strikes and police brutality and everything else, if the American public might lose taste for their current regime.
Well, Apple is also definitely to "blame" for forbidding Gecko on iPhone, a number of years ago. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that there used to be a prototype build of Firefox Mobile that ran on iOS, but Apple made it clear that it would not be accepted on the Store.

Developing an Apple-compliant Firefox for iOS would mean developing an entirely separate browser, which basically wouldn't share a single line of code with either Firefox Desktop, Firefox for Android, Firefox OS or Firefox for Firefox OS, plus it would be using a (reduced version of) WebKit, so it would not have the same behavior as the other Firefoxen and it would require yet different Firefox Development Tools.

If this platform was a high priority, this might be feasible, but it might take several years, at the expense of some other project and Apple would still be in position to shoot down Firefox for iOS (again).

So I don't think that this is going to happen any time soon.
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Well not spam per exactly, but the ratio of messages is like a couple of orders of magnitude different. A woman's OKCupid inbox can hit the > 100 to 1000 message each week.

The difference is so large it is kinda of looked at by both genders with humor. (The side-by-side screenshots are pretty funny if you Google for them.) Also take a glance at http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati...
I would hope they are saving the application for when they do launch in your city? Saying that up front would be nice though.
What makes your matchmakers any better than a random stranger? Or a computer algorithm? Or a pile of bricks? I searched through your whole website trying to figure out why your matchmakers are worth my time and money but it doesn't seem like you've made any attempt to address those concerns, which is extremely odd since their matchmaking skills are the core of your business.

Am I missing something? Based on the (lack of) info on your website, your matchmakers really could be random people you pulled off the street.
The Post office sells stamps, the courts charge fees, FCC sells radio space, don't know if the CDC has a source of extra income. Maybe that is why this foundation for private funds exist
One thing that I have recommended to people who want to do something like this but without the fuss is to check out the schematic capture feature of the Altera Quartus II Design software, there is a free web version of it available and there are very cheap experimenters boards like the Terasic DE0 which goes for around $50. You can draw the schematics using TTL or equivalent and it will produce the equivalent HDL and compile it and you can run it on a real FPGA, it is just like doing it with TTL, but just not as much soldering or wire wrapping involved :)
There was a recent hypothesis that the appendix was a kind of "storage" for beneficial gut bacteria, important in keeping the gut flora ecosystem going. Of course, the whole notion of gut flora as being important for digestion is relatively new, so that turns out to be its main function it's no wonder we used to think it was useless.

I wonder if that kind of misunderstanding applies to the gall bladder as well.
> 10/14/2014 English (US)
> 14/10/2014 French

Pedantic Englishman here: 14/10/2014 is used all over Europe, including England. If only we could persuade the world to use an international format: 2014-10-14, for example.
> The logic is that if you message 100 women, at least a few are going to respond.

While this is true that some people subscribe to this logic[1], the number of messages (good or bad) that women get seems to out-weigh the number that the men get. I've heard (anecdata alert!) that some men get frustrated and will start sending out "form messages" because they will take the time to craft meaningful messages only to get no reply[2].

[1] I heard a similar story of someone (a "dad's friend" of a friend a long time ago) that would basically ask every woman at a party for oral sex. He would get lots of slaps in the face, but he never went home empty-handed (allegedly).

[2] I would personally liken it to investing time into job-hunting (i.e. trying to craft a decent cover letter) and then just getting no response from the potential employer. Though depending on the situation one other the other might be more stressful (e.g. searching for a job while unemployed).
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So my gut reaction to "cars have the advantage" is "you're clearly wrong!" but that's not really polite or enlightening. Rather than argue about it (which I'm sure we could do endlessly) I'd like to know why or how you think that cars have the advantage. I saw earlier that you posted "because you can always have the car pull over to sort a problem out" and I would agree that provided the car can still control itself, yes it could do that.

I guess my assumption on when the car tells a human being to take control are in a few circumstances:

1. it loses the ability to control a driving input that ostensibly the driver still has the ability to control (steering servo fails)

2. it loses the ability to control a driving input that the driver also can't control (tire blowout)

3. it doesn't know what to do or can't make a decision so the driver is the tiebreaker (crash imminent, road disappears, brand new road with no map data, etc)

4. it loses a sensor input completely or starts getting data that it considers garbage and thus can't safely operate the vehicle (LIDAR or camera fails)

5. loss of power so that autopilot just straight up fails

I could probably think of some more scenarios but the point isn't to be exhaustive but illustrative.

So in some of these circumstances the car does have an opportunity to pull over and wake the driver up and say "hey you need to drive now" but in others, it's going to be split second.

If ALL the car failure modes resulted in the car pulling over and the driver taking back over at his/her leisure then I would 100% agree with you. But there clearly are failure modes where the driver is going to get put back in the control loop with little/no warning and be asked to make a decision perhaps faster than they can wake up and/or process the scene and catch up enough to decide well.

So basically what you have to do is make some kind of guarantee about "the car will never ask the driver to take over with less than 60 seconds of notice" or something like that. But the hardware cost to enable you to make that kind of guarantee is substantial; sensors, battery backups, autopilot systems, actuators, etc all in triplicate. And I don't know that you can do with just two because in the situation where you go from two to one you don't have any kind of ability to determine if one of the pieces of software is malfunctioning due to memory corruption.

Although the price of doing all this is going down drastically I suspect that it'll be a while before people are willing to pay enough to get the kind of redundancy they have in airplanes.

So what am I missing? I'm really curious.
Nope! Sheer coincidence that my username is similar.
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> I agree about the in-theory part. In practice, it has not happened.

Just like text boxes and select boxes, right? Which is why everyone is trying to re-invent them too? We all know how much those are loved.

> I don't. The designers do. And if one of the four major browsers looks like crap, the design doesn't get scrapped, but the datepicker does.

Obviously you do care otherwise you wouldn't be having this conversation. Also, the default controls don't look crappy.

> Right. Then give me a validated input field where I can say "this is a date. Don't type in anything else" and the browser makes it work. Nobody has done that yet.

Then you need to educate users on what a valid date looks like. I feel that that's much harder than using a standard date control.

> Basically, there is a difference between how things should work in theory and in the ideal world, and then there is the mess we deal with now and for the next 5-10 years

It's only an issue because everyone seems to think having absolute control over the look of their website at the expense of usability.

> I'd rather have an imperfect solution that saves me developer time and gives the user a better experience, than a perfectly engineered solution where the only good thing is the API.

I have no idea what you mean. Easier for the developer and better user experience would be the built in date picker. A built-in datepicker should be following a standard API similar to every other HTML element.
Altera used to do this a few years ago (the trademark was "HardCopy," I believe). If anyone knows why they stopped, I'd love to hear. My guess is that the HardCopy ASICs significantly underperformed "manually designed" ASICs while costing almost as much: they couldn't take advantage of ASIC-specific strategies, but they still had all the fixed costs associated with a die run.
From the article: "fourth-generation jets have enabled people who probably never had the skills to begin with and should not have been in the cockpit"

To me, as an experienced pilot, that says it all.
I read their FAQ:

1 match per month at $20
https://datingring.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202344714-H...

Policy on matches that don't want to meet:
https://datingring.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203302640-W...
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They already have something like this. They list the top 5 in-app purchases for an app right on its page. For example, for “Mini Motor Racing” (never played it, but it’s highlighted today), it shows that you can buy “30,000 career cash” for $0.99, or “Unlock all purchasable cars” for $2.99. Sounds like problem solved to me!
I can finally watch 60FPS videos on YouTube thanks to the HTML5 player being fully functional now.
And many of those JS selects suck on mobile and limited browsers.
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Yeah, but snowden has been saying this for a while, but nobody listens.
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I recall a minor plot point of Rainbows End where an entire library was being scanned in by being put through a shredder, and the resulting stream-of-confetti being photographed at a very high frame rate and resolution, to be later stitched back together into a set of coherent documents.

If that technology existed and was good enough, it would be an interim solution. Grab the data, pulp the paper.
Thoughts on 1: a) Each match generates $30-40 worth of revenue. b) the number of matches per week grow linearly with the number of uses (n/2) c) the matches are determined with assistance from an algorithm. (They automate away the complexity generated by the growing user graph, so the human only needs to use their intuition / follow common sense guidelines to decide if the pair could be a match) d) they probably have standardized copy for "Why we with you'll hit it off" info provided with every match. This minimizes the amount of time spent per worker per date and reduces the set desired qualifications for their hires. They could get by with recent liberal arts college grads for sure. e) Therefore they could easily afford to hire freelance "matchmakers" linearly with the number of users. The main issue is that if this takes off too fast they will be dealing with rapidly growing organizational complexity / overhead. They will have to set up good managers, good customer service, good training and good q/a.
Awesome work. The interface is smooth, and servers are up just so fast :o
Signed up and got put on waiting list. Used OkC and Tinder before, let's see how different this is. Also will be interesting to see if this follows a lot of the online dating trends that was outlined in Christian Rudder's Dataclysm book.
OK, so how does it work. Native code compiled to asm.js somehow?
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> Unfortunately, wire wrapping equipment is too
> expensive for me to justify to myself currently.

$30.50 from Mouser [1] :-) I've got a couple of these and the OK power wrap which takes impossible to find NiCd batteries. The point I'm trying to make is that wire wrapping, as a prototyping scheme, is inexpensive, although it is very time consuming. I used to build Z80 systems with wirewrap all the time, and it is both quieter (from an electronic noise perspective) and more durable than solderless breadboards.

Of course with places like OSHPark you can make PCBs pretty cheaply so that is a consideration as well.

[1] http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/OK-Industries/WSU-30M/?q...