skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting tidbit on two unused keywords from the 1.0 specification [1]:

"The keywords const and goto are reserved by Java, even though they are not currently used in Java. This may allow a Java compiler to produce better error messages if these C++ keywords incorrectly appear in Java programs."

[1] http://titanium.cs.berkeley.edu/doc/java-langspec-1.0/3.doc....
Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
It's because the shell (http://electron.atom.io/) is based on Chromium, which can be quite large if you include everything. But in the future, the size should get smaller. NWJS, which is also based on Chromium, is already making efforts to significantly shrink the binary size.
If you already know javascript, I would recommend learning node.js (express.js framework) and going from there to build your backend.

My 2 cents.
Yes sorry ^_^ I meant WebRTC :) Edited!
Jquery is a lot of things but minimal isn't really accurate.

Combining a DOM manipulation library with an AJAX library and a Promises/Deferred library is and has been a pain point for me.

Also some of those size reductions have been at the cost of features (in particular by reducing the target browser set)

Its a great project. I use it a lot but I'm not sure its a counterpoint to bloat.
So how about a checkbox for each setting?
direct link to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=23&v=STIwphibwwg
I guess this worked for them, for some value of the word "worked", but it always seemed like a bad idea to me.
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com

127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com

The political candidates are the worst.
Private gun ownership isn't a safeguard against "if things get too bad".

Really? Because it caused us a lot of trouble during our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. If anything, that pretty much proves it as a check on US doctrine.

It's also unrealistic and implausible to imagine that the .gov and .mil are going to make "things get too bad".

Fifteen years ago, even in the wake of Ruby Ridge and Waco, I might've been tempted to agree with you. Unfortunately, there's been a whole lot of history since then, yeah?

return to some sort of monarchy

What are your betting odds on Bush III, or Clinton II, again? Your countrymen are apathetic and easily-manipulated when it comes to politics.
Again, we cannot just remove it now, lost all control of the app profile.

BTW, that's been the name for 3 years.
Respectfully, their example code is the following:

<%
<WebEntryPoint("example.asp")> _
Sub Example()
%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>An Example Wasabi Program</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<h1>An Example Wasabi Program</h1>
<p>Arithmetic: 1 + 1 = <%= 1 + 1 %></p>
<p>Dynamic Content: x + y = <%= IntRequest("x") + IntRequest("y") %>
</body>
</html>
<%
End Sub
%>

I mean, they basically went to the trouble of building their own compiler to be able to keep writing Frankenstein ASP. If they'd built a language like Elixir I think people would be a lot more sympathetic.

http://jacob.jkrall.net/wasabi-the-parts/a_first_program.htm...
>>Ironically, poor people value their leisure time much more than rich people I would argue.

That's because people tend to value things that are scarce and hard to get. Leisure time is something rich people have in abundance, since the vast majority of their wealth comes from land, properties and stocks, and they don't really have to work to maintain any of it (other people do it for them).

Whereas if you're poor and are working three different jobs to make ends meet, then you are going to appreciate those 2 hours on Sunday that you get to spend with your family.
So now that Apple is saying you can't make money on the mobile web with iOS, everyone will have to make an app with unblockable ads. Great for the app store. What happens to discoverability when your content isn't on the mobile web (and with google penalizing you for not having a mobile friendly site)?
It does run in a browser of sorts (http://electron.atom.io/), just not the browser, you're using to read this.
[Ello – Budnitz – CONTROL] Less 1984 and More Brave New World [video]
Anecdote:

I have found that quality scales much further with price when the consumable is raw fish.

Which is to say, I have not yet hit a value ceiling on how much I pay for very, very good sashimi.

And believe me, I've tried.
It does send your IP address to Google, when you download the filter. And I can't tell if "Enhanced Protection" is enabled which actually sends your URLs to Google.
Andy Warhol was a system fucker, not a sociologist. That's a clever comment, but it does not frame this picture in any way.

I think you aren't quite aware of what American poverty is, nor the message this article is trying to propagate.

It's not someone making 50k that is suffering, its someone making 12k and trying to support more than just themselves. They are making this income working multiple, minimum wage jobs and they have no recourse. It's a single mother with 3 kids who can't parent them because she works 14 hours a day. The kids grow up fatherless. Their role models are selling them sex, drugs and murder. Video games are their passion, not learning or educational development. This cycle repeats itself over generations.

The poor have some semblance of a roof, cheap fast food and entertainment and that is enough to make them complacent. To them, demanding better education, other options than minimum wage jobs, health care, or other social safety-net benefits aren't even arguments they can fathom to make.
There's an issue with your CSS rendering on Chrome. It's most likely because your main css is in the body
Coincidentally, at the last company we did, MailFrontier...someone also registered the misspelling MailFronteir and put up a site selling condoms.
>> writing your own langue and toolchain

According to this link from another response by someone who worked on Wasabi: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/technical-debt-and-tacki...

Some choice quotes:

“Wasabi is 100% backwards-compatible with VBScript.”

and

“It’s fully debuggable in Visual Studio. Breakpoints, variable inspection, single stepping, the whole enchilada. It’s just .NET under the covers.”

So not really a new language per se, sounds more like they just home-brewed some steroids for VBScript.
Expect Labs – MindMeld
The differences:

1. Your 'node_modules' is automatically created by npm. No need for a separate tool.

2. You don't have to 'enter' an npm environment other than changing to the directory where it exists.

These really aren't huge issues, but I can see it being an annoyance for some, especially people coming from Node.js to Python.
From the guy who founded an entire development ecosystem out of the web framework he built on what was, at the time, an obscure Japanese programming language, that he originally built for a project management application, it seems kind of strange that he'd be surprised that someone might build a complex tool in similar circumstances.

In a parallel world where the cool developers were all attending Wasabiconf, Joel Spolsky Prime wrote a sneering blogpost assuming that DHH Prime was joking about the crazy 'scaffolding' and 'proprietary database mapping' framework he was building BaseCamp on
Wow! That is pretty amazing, thank you. Wow, wow.

One of the best parts is that he pretty obviously has Spolsky dead to rights here, but typically DHH is thought of as an asshole and Spolsky as the software nice guy. But it's possible to spread FUD with nice-sounding words.
No, the answer is it happened, and it can be discovered by simple search, which for some reason completely incomprehensible to me you neglected to do. For example:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/21/2193261/three-st...

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2007-10-26/554296/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/race-multicultural/l...
> I never clicked ads before discovering AdBlock, so the fact that I've been using it for years now didn't deprive them from any money.

Do all ads rely on clicks? I'm fairly certain that a good number just want to user to see the ad (they probably pay less, though).

I don't disagree with your main idea, and I do use adblockers, but I think it's worth clearing up that point.
Valleytronics Could Lead to New Approaches for Spintronics and Quantum Computing
And by "nothing" you mean the entire UI library

I quote:

> The UI library is in coffee script; if you want use a UI for your plugin, youre pretty much stuck using it.

> (..and yes, its technically possible to do with plain js, but I challenge any of the 'but just use js' folk to link to a popular plugin, with a UI, that does)
Genuinely curious - how is this different from ProductHunt? Given the kinds of things I see in ProductHunt, there seems to be a ton of overlap here.
Sitting in St. Louis, I'm about half way between the two, and I can feel the power, Captain!
What weird stuff is happening? So I can check it out and fix it asap. tnx
Ask HN: Web Framework for light and fast development
I need to build a customized work request system with many different interactions and views, but am shy about a heavy framework with too much of a learning curve. Ive used rails and django in the past so I am starting with those two. Looking for something with above average template system and code generation.
Continuous record of 8 streams of 220Mb/s video. There were 10 SSDs for storage in a RAID-6 configuration.

So the effective endurance of the RAID was (10 - 2) * 72TB = 720TB.

8 Streams of 220Mb/s is 220/s, 13.2GB/minute, 792GB/hour, 19TB/day. So about 38 days.
> One salient hypothesis, in this context, is definitely "they left because of Wasabi".

Indeed. And then the author goes on to explain the actual reason, so you don't need to guess.
Yes, but if it's going to cost $50/mo no matter what, I'll take the package where it only costs me $45/mo. It's not like I have the ability to say "your Internet prices are too high, can you lower them?" So I'm stuck with whatever pricing they offer me, and lower is better no matter what.
Wow, something clicked while I was reading that. Wasabi is the result of following "Things You Should Never Do [1]" as a motto. Not that it's a bad thing (it's not), but it just explains so much.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
I think the biggest part of the controversy was that people speculated it would become "pay us money so our users see your ads" more than "if your ads are acceptable we will unblock them"
Wolfenstein 3D pulled from App Store due to swastikas (2011)
This example reminds me of that Push for Pizza app that made waves awhile ago. Therefore, I love it! But seriously, this was a really solid walkthrough
Well, there's the one in context that does! Except this function can never be called in an empty context so you ultimately are stuck.
> Actually we do and we know that they do not affect our bodies.

I have some of that healthy radioactive toothpaste from the 60s laying around that you might be interested in.
I too am curious about this one.
Продажа+2-комнатной+квартиры+по+ул.+Косиора+25+на+2/5+эт.+дома
Reference: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-fu...
Next-Gen Pacemakers May Be Powered by the Beating of a Heart
There aren't actually 365 days in a year, it's only approximate, and we force upon ourselves a ton of (highly inconvenient) work to make that approximation work day-to-day.

>(Now, it's true that it would also be remarkable if our year was 100 or 1000 days. That would be remarkable for a different reason of course.)

I think that's lovemenot's point: If you accept arbitrary reasons, everything will be remarkable.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Customers will only provide payment information to a company that they trust.
Google Photos http://photos.google.com

It works very nice with iOS for photos and videos and it's unlimited and free. Google rules! :) I love the Webapp and how I can do albums, easy video upload and download from iOS, nice!
"Spielberg’s "Schindler's List" did not try to amend his movie to look more comfortable. The historical "Gettysburg" movie (1993) is still on iTunes."

It seems Apple has started down a slippery slope. Will they now remove any movie from iTunes that contains the image of a Confederate flag anywhere in the movie?

It begs the question, is there any "fair use" of a Confederate flag, anywhere? Or is it now fully taboo? If so, was this way overdue?
I'm not clear on what "race to the bottom" is implying to in this particular sense so excuse me if I fail to properly answer your question. What I mean by "bid to play" is lets say Google and Apple are looking for the same developer and located within the same general vacinity of each other. After going through both interviews, one is willing to pay me $125k and other $130k. Their predeterminded budget number. My current skillset is greater than what the job description is asking for. With such both orgs should be open to discussing going above the 125 or 130 slighly so I can join the team because the ball is favorably in my favor. What I'm refering to is there should be an open door there for this to happen. Seeing the word competitve or open implys to me that the negotiations are open for the right person. Hence why they do not advertise salary on their postings. They're attempting to attract the best talent possible. A range stops that from happening because you are not willing to "bid to play".
Are Nazi flagged games removed too? This gets onto an extremely slippery slope.

It's funny how the left wing has no problem with burning the U.S. Flag but flip out beyond rational reason over a confederate flag. Does the Serbian App Store forbid games with a Kosovo flag? Or vice versa? How about Turks and Armenians? This can really get silly; especially since there is a stockpile of racist, sexist music being happily sold on iTunes.

This is ridiculously childish. A flag isn't racism; people are racism. That psycho kid killed those people without regard to flags. Banning Nazi flags in Germany has done nothing to end neo Nazis. The inconsistency of this move by a Apple isn't surprising considering they condemned Indiana over gay issues but continue to sell millions of products in places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

I love Apple but this political direction they're taking seems misguided and almost patronizing to me.
Delivering High Scroll Performance
I find Warhol's quote extremely short-sighted.

The reason income inequality is a humongous problem is because it directly leads to inequality in power and influence. Rich people can lobby politicians much more effectively and use their wealth to get policies enacted that benefit them, usually at the expense of the poor. They can also manipulate the masses by subverting mass communication channels and convince people that their being rich benefits everyone (e.g. "trickle-down economics" and the general worship of and rhetoric around "job creators").
My custom Emacs init file that's grown over the years reminds me of my main problem with Emacs: to do anything, it just feels like a bunch of magical incantations using global variables and function calls I wouldn't know how to discover on my own.

Random example from my user.el file:

(set-cursor-color "White")
(setq blink-cursor-interval 0.5)

With some trial and error, I could find out if `(setq cursor-color "White")` works. Or see if `set-blink-cursor-interval` exists. Or look up why `set-cursor-color` exists in the first place when surely it's more consistent to just modify a config variable. Or find some best Emacslisp practices online. Or figure out why I could never get working my one attempt to write a custom function to scratch my own itch.

But I just can't be bothered anymore.

Seems like Atom is having an easy time beating Emacs on this front, and I'll probably switch over for good the next time something breaks in my .emacs.d folder.
>* - Disables HTML5-video DRM (even if this has nothing to do with leaking data).*

I would rather live in a browser without video support, than with DRM
I agree. Seriously, who gives a toss about what anyone's opinions are on subjects unrelated to what you're reading by them? And even if they do creep in, what's to say you're right or they're wrong? I thought this was part of being an adult but I see it all too often: "so-and-so wrote an excellent technical manual on X but he's right wing so I won't buy it!"

I don't understand that way of thinking since no human being will ever 100% agree with any other on everything.
Right, but then you're just changing who you leak data to, you're not stopping the leak.

EDIT: wow, downvotes? Getting a list from EasyList is just as much a leak as getting a list from Google. Someone has your IP either way.
Agreed. I've noticed a pattern of attempting to mythologize as many females in STEM fields as possible while simultaneously looking for any excuse to attack males for their sexism (or whatever else you can find.) I take this as a sign that as a culture we've decided that yes, sexism is the reason science has always been filled with guys. Alternative hypotheses are merely a product of that same sexism.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the men who have most recently received the mythology treatment are disabled (Stephen Hawking), gay (Alan Turing), had severe mental health challenges (John Nash) or are black (Neil DeGrasse Tyson). I imagine next will be a transgendered hero.
Are you talking about http://nuclide.io/ or some other editor?
Parsing the untyped λ-calculus with Parsec
What about lumen (http://lumen.laravel.com/)? It is a micro framework (inherited from Laravel). If you need more features, you can easily scale up your project to use Laravel because Lumen uses the same structure.
Congress older than COBOL
Also - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!
Yeah I understood correctly. Internet+TV is cheaper than just Internet. I was just saying that the only way I've ever seen it offered to me is Internet is $50 alone or $40 with TV, and then TV is $40 on top of that. The only packages I've ever been offered, TV+Internet is always more expensive than just Internet alone.

I would love to have a hair burrito if the tacos were cheaper, because I never have the option to go to another taco stand.
Graphene Wraps Up Wires, Boosting Chip Speeds by Thirty Percent
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade
I think in terms of declarations, steps, procedures, methods, objects and a clear, logical program flow.
This is really not unlike banning the nazi flag post WWII germany. The parallels are apt.

Perhaps in time, the flag will lose its emotional charge but that isn't the case now.
Ah yes. That completely makes sense. I have been thinking this separately already. Thank you for explaining it though. I appreciate it. More to the point I agree with you.
It doesn't make sense to me to compare the military occupation of those countries with the paranoid proposal that things "could get too bad" in the U.S. Too much seems too different about those two to be meaningful; I could point to the strict gun laws in most of the western nations and ask, "why haven't they degenerated into `could get too bad'?"

About the "whole lot of history since Ruby Ridge and Waco," well, I don't see any specific pattern of things getting "too bad". I'm not seeing the history you apparently are.

About the 2016 presidential election, couple of things: the presidency's just a job, and a short-term one at that, and the president doesn't have much power. Presidents run the country, they don't rule it.
I love PH. Wanted to experiment here with a stream that shows only tools for startups. So no hoverboards, dating apps, or sending friends glitter. You go to paperboy to find new tools that could make you more productive, thats it.
They even poached Guido Van Rossum(guy who invented Python) from google
The way Google treats developers is outrageous
Nobody puts Baby in the Box<>.
> Quick rant: if this had been a Lisp project, and they'd accomplished this stuff by writing macros, we'd be talking this up as a case study for why Lisp is awesome.

Agreed! But I would consider that an argument against using macros, not an argument for Wasabi.
While YOU may not see the flag as a racist symbol, I assure you that others do. The general term is called dog-whistle politics. Eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
I'm very comfortable with games that display the Nazi flag, why shouldn't the Confederate flag be different?
Pictures of Uber protests in France
This is rather silly. What's next? Are we going to change the uniforms of Nazis in World War 2 games? Start putting "CENSORED" watermarks over the confederate flag in civil war themed movies?

The flag shouldn't be flying on state buildings, but leave historically themed art and media out of this.
REST is a kludge but it's easy. SOAP as much as I dislike giving Microsoft credit was brilliant, but it was hard.
The 1.1 release came out a day earlier than I expected, I suppose we're releasing on Thursdays now. :P Note that 1.1 is a relatively small release, since, due to launching the train release model, it was in development for just three weeks prior to 1.0 (rather than the usual six weeks that all subsequent releases will have spent in development), and during that time we were all understandably in a tizzy preparing for a post-stability world. :)

However, despite that short and distracted development window, we still managed to squeeze out compiler performance improvements that should result in 30% faster compiles for crates in the wild. You can expect even more progress on the compilation speed front for 1.2, due to be released August 6, along with a slew of stabilized and much-demanded stdlib APIs.

Let me also mention that tickets have just gone on sale for the first official Rust conference, a small one-day event in Berkeley: http://rustcamp.com/ We'll be using the experience from this proto-conference as a guide for larger events in the future, so even if you can't go we'd love to get your feedback as to what you'd like to see from a Rust conference.
Hopefully they'll ban all songs that contain blatantly racist lyrics.
> Many people in the lower or lower-middle class don't feel that they are really that bad off

Do you have a source to back up such a sweeping generalization?
We can’t change history, but we can change the future.

We can't change Apple, but we can buy Android.
Surely dog-whistle politics doesn't apply to Ultimate General: Gettysburg though. The flag is there for purely historical reasons. Obviously putting it on your bumper or flying it above your state capital is a completely different story.
I don't think PaulHoule was saying it isn't a racist symbol.
> I still think those who embrace FOSS now will be at a huge advantage as time progresses and the nanny mentality of companies such as Apple and Microsoft becomes more prevalent

I'm not so sure about that. Apple is doing this to gain favor with their customers, who want to feel safe in an insular bubble.

I had long thought that Free would win out economically, when centralized stores were forced to ban torrent clients and the like, but unfortunately the zeitgeist has even shifted to pay streaming apps. This is the real damage that centralization causes - the culture gets permanently warped from internalizing good-enough solutions.

Then again we've had decades of receive-only broadcast media conditioning people into thinking centralization is the natural way of things, so maybe it's just going to take that much longer to break it up. Still, I feel that this current decentralization swing might be our last chance to correctly distribute power, besides the otherwise inevitable societal collapse.