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The author makes an assumption that the cause of the bad scroll was the ad at the top of the page. I have seen many pages on mobile and tablet that have broken scrolling like this, and many have nothing to do with ads. I have also seen reflow and scroll problems related to how custom web fonts are loaded, or to social sharing widgets.
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The New urbanism article was pretty bad.. The author made some OK points, but the only example he provides is the San Francisco which you can really only compare with a city like New York, London, Hong Kong.

I thought it was funny the idea that New Urbanists are this big powerful entity pushing all these regulations and codes in place, as if building developers and their investors don't have any sort of input.

Also he fails to provide any sort of evidence these new codes and regulations pushed by new urbanists are responsible for sprawl. Especially when most of the suburbs mentioned in the article are much older than new urbanist policies.
> But some constants involve no dimensions at all. These are so-called dimensionless constants – pure numbers, such as the ratio of the proton mass to the electron mass. That is simply the number 1836.2 (which is thought to be a little peculiar because we do not know why it is so large). According to the physicist Michael Duff of Imperial College London, only the dimensionless constants are really ‘fundamental’, because they are independent of any system of measurement. Dimensional constants, on the other hand, ‘are merely human constructs whose number and values differ from one choice of units to the next’.

Say what?

Unitless constants are exactly the same stuff as dimensional constructs; it's just that the units canceled out. You measure a proton's mass in some arbitrary units, the electron in the same units and when you divide the two, the units go away. This does not create a philosophically distinct category of constant.
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The USSR was not structured like one massive corporation. Corporation tends to seek profit; while USSR sought survival. Was bad at it, too: built millions of tanks and other military hardware that rusted without any battle, lost the cold war and tanked.
Dozens, maybe thousands of european salmon farming small companies vanished about 15 years ago and dumping was the final nail in the coffin. I could tell you some histories that producers said to me, but all is a little more complex than that. In the last 10 years we have a big recession in Europe by the scam. You can not expect a lot of regrowth inside Europe.

We have also two big and destructive tsunamis: Indonesia 2005 and Japan 2011. Ironically the banda-aceh tsunami that wipped entire villages favoured a vigorous regrowth of the aquaculture sector from India to Philipines because: 1-the fisher float was distroyed and 2-survivors were mortally afraid of working at the ocean. The sector in Japan have enough economical muscle to survive practically unscathed to the 2011 disaster. Another consequence was a renewed interest of the investors in South-America; and of course China is growing at at impressive "bigger-better-faster" pace that the rest of the world, as always. Aquaculture of trout and salmon in the south of europe is currently frozen and probably will never recover
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You should share your beliefs with the geoengineers running seeding programs creating algal blooms in the Pacific before they kill the whole fucking thing...
I wonder who paid him to pull it :)
Very few really big problems are ever settled in our lifetime, and yet we have to act (which can include deciding to not act) on imperfect information. We do our best. Get used to it.
> I wonder if they would like to buy any ... aircraft carriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-class_helicopter_destroy...
I used to live under the Concorde flight path in and out of Heathrow, and yes, it was noisy (even travelling subsonic). Every day at about 1000 there'd be this deep-throated roar and the windows would start rattling[ * ], I'd look up, and there'd be this beautiful delta-winged shape sliding through the sky.

It was completely unlike the noise a normal jet makes, more like a rocket engine than anything else. I can't say it particularly annoyed me; I liked knowing it came from Concorde.

[*] To be fair, I didn't have very good windows.
Funny, Chrome uses link for rendering and the article talks about WebKit.
Funny, Chrome uses Blink for rendering and the article talks about WebKit.
I notice in a lot of writing about climate change that people tend to try to convince the reader that it exists, both you and the article's authors mentioned the lot of scientific evidence. It makes it sound like permanent argument mode.

It also helps us forget that there's no reliable scientific evidence and certainly no consensus about what, if any, harm climate change will do to us and if it does, whether we'll have time to adapt. Somehow the debate seems to be between "it's true and there's lots of evidence" and "it's not true and I don't believe it" but in reality we really have no idea what it will do. Maybe we don't actually have to leave all the oil in the ground afterall and a few extra degrees turns out to be not much of a problem.
Udacity (and Coursera, edX, MIT OpenCourseware) can and do teach very helpful skills to large groups of self-directed learners. I have benefited from Coursera. I suspect that most who come here fit into that group. One problem is that a large proportion of the population do not have the personality/skills/drive to do this. I would note the Udacity pilot with San Jose State University. They started with a remedial math course, a college algebra course and an introductory statistics course. The pass rate of the stats class was about 50%, the two other courses much lower - 27 and 25% if I remember correctly.

One approach that has worked better is a partnership with a Community College (e.g. Bunker Hill in Massachusetts). Here they use a flipped classroom approach. The students watch online lectures and come to a lab session where they have an instructor to help when they get stuck and are encouraged work in groups. This seems to help many get past the hard parts and complete the work. This approach is obviously more expensive. Very few people work "for free." Self-motivated, disciplined individuals will always do well with systems that focus heavily on independent study. Others will have to pay more to access more personalized support.
Isn't it interesting that she was seeking out Buddhism?

The other philosophy that thought about this, but on a more intellectual level, was Stoicism, which was very popular in the Roman empire.
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> England's not Europe

Great Britain lies on the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate. The United Kingdom is also culturally and politically affiliated with other European countries. Why is it not in Europe?
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And probably a great deal of employment in [location where alternatives are produced].

Nothing deserves forever, and survival of civilization in the modern world depends on adaptation, not holding fast.
> Could we have predicted the iPhone in 2005?

Actually yes.

LG phones beat iPhone with the LG Prada (and I think the Voyager too?). If not, at least the voyager was still a more usable phone than the "you're holding it wrong" days of the iPhone. The Neonode N1m had the slide to unlock before Apple used it as well. It beat both LG and Apple.

And people tend to forget Palm Pilots when worshiping the genius that is iPhone. These were released as far back as at the mid 90's and were extremely popular among the now older generation. When Jobs trashed the stylus I believe he was referring to these. My father had several models.

The point I'm getting at harkens back to an alleged Isaac Newton quote, which _ironically_ Google actually used back in the old days of Google ;)
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Yes, some of it is great and the ability to write

for (const auto& item: collection) {

is probably my favorite feature of C++11. Ironically it makes the recommended approach of using standard algorithms with lambdas look abstruse in comparison. Considering your example, I still feel that inheriting from boost::noncopyable is the cleanest way to declare the class noncopyable. It feels almost like a language keyword!

But the amount of new gotchas is significant too. In particular to use move semantics effectively you have to be aware of such obscure things as xvalues, std::move_if_noexcept and rules for autogenerated move constructors. The fact that the committee itself did not get it right on the first try speaks for itself.
That's how much it costs in America. But there's nothing stopping them from selling it to South Africans for $20 a month. The marginal cost of an additional student is surely very low.
I tested it on firefox & it works, I suspect you tried it on a long article in which case you'll have to wait a bit. I'll add a please wait/buffering as you suggested.
I have watched the USA version of Solaris 6 or 7 times, the Russian verion 3 or 4 times, and enjoyed the book.

Facinating story and movies. It was cool to see behind the scenes of making the Russian version.
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Under the heading "Other browsers"?
Well, that is what bothers me the most about this whole train wreck. If and when there are environmental issues more deserving of our attention than the CO2 thing, many anti-intellectuals are going end up dismissing them as politically motivated propaganda without even bothering to learn about them. Congratulations.
Libertarians don't have a monopoly on free market thinking. Most mainstream (non-libertarian) economists would have said the same 50 years ago.
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As all the other commenters have mentioned (separately for some reason..), this is a misleading title.. However, I'd still read some fiction on a backlit e-reader than go through my emails and TODO list on my laptop from the relaxation point of view.
Marco lost my trust after I purchased Overcast app and it has been mostly ignored by him other than fixing bugs. The Overcast app has seen very few new features. There is still no streaming (100% download before playing) and no bookmarking (so you can come back to something interesting). He mentioned on his blog that he had made a few minor fixes but nothing major.
I'm not sure a 19 years old kid whose mother committed suicide 2 years before is in a mental state suited to assess all the consequences of the choice he made...
A lot of volunteers are kid with trouble past or living in hard circumstances.
Very neat. If I had a suggestion it would be to perhaps add a kind of 'focus' mode overlay that dimmed the rest of the page when highlighting changes so the eye knows where to look while the timeline is playing.
No, that is not what Herasimchuk wrote :)
From memory at LHR Concorde had dedicated check in and lounge (this was in 2003). I'm pretty sure we went through dedicated security for Concorde (might have been VIP) I certainly don't remember hanging around much.

Can't say what JFK on the way was back like as I flew to Barbados, where facilities were a little more basic.

There are still ways to get faster through security, London City airport always feels fast when I fly through it and one day I will do the BA001 flight (Concordes old number) to JFK where again I suspect time spent in security theatre will be small.
Annoying lights help. I ride with some quite bright led lights I got off of advrider.com and I think they help. You could get the flashy kind that bicyclists use, those definitely make them more visible.
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Rather than being examples of solution aversion, these are examples of trade-offs. Garbage collection solves some problems, but causes others, which is why not all software uses it. Static typing might help with some things, but causes other problems, which is why dynamic typing exists.

Though you are trying to make a point about communities like Go, C++, Python, and Haskell, you yourself are showing certain prejudices as far as language features that are not objectively justifiable, and it's not really any different.
Yes, it's certainly more complicated than most proponents or opposers of it claim. I think that's because they both have a "solution affinity" for their preferred solution. Geoengineering has all sorts of promising ideas but talking about them publicly is like talking about making a safer cigarette - it's dilutes the arguments of people who've already been charmed by another solution (stop using oil and cars and grow your own vegetables).
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This has nothing to do with Telegram from what I can tell. Looks like it's just the gallery making requests as normal. Once that 'intent' is launched I don't think Telegram could hide that communication even if it wanted to.
If the problem was related to something else it'd surely replicate on other NYT pages though.
You missed the point of the paper, which isn't about climate change.
I've had other suggesting something similar too. Will add it to my todo.
It's very easy to dramatically underestimate the amount of fuel needed for an effective suborbital trajectory. If you want to travel half-way round the world, then delta-V wise, you're not very far off actually getting into orbit.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1118/1

That article quotes 7km/s for a 10,000km trip, compared to about 8km/s for LEO.

The X-15 (and SpaceshipOne, for that matter) was never trying to actually go anywhere; it just hopped out of the atmosphere and come down again very close to where it took off, with a delta-V of about 1.5km/s.

It's worth getting a copy of KSP and actually trying this. It's eye-opening.
Contrary to what it might look like, rowing is almost entirely dependent on your legs, your arms/back merely keep the momentum going at the back of the stroke.
Also, the muscles in your back are nowhere near as strong/large as the muscles in your legs, there's nearly a magnitude of difference. Though if you added power from your arms in addition to fully utilizing your legs (it would be much harder to concentrate) then there would be a benefit. But then you run into how to engineer such a thing, especially with respect to aerodynamics.
It's not weird; it's more that it depends on the answers to unanswered questions that have been perplexing many people for a long time.

Maybe "premature" is a better description?
I can't definitively say I've been depressed, but is it fair to say that you still have desires and want things, but it feels like there are insurmountable barriers between you and desires/things?
oh sorry I don't travel outside the eu (yet).
for the ID you CAN but it's not a MUST. currently not sure if it ever will be a MUST since the new id's feature still aren't there as promised. it's a complete failure. still I know have a way smaller format for my id which is great!
I wonder what he thinks of the fact that one of his bit twiddling algorithms is standard fare at job interviews.
Other than the millions of times the country has apologized and that it has raised an entire generation of peace loving anti-war people.

Abe and his crew are voted in by the older, xenophobic crowd, which remains the majority with Japan's dwindling population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements...

"Apology is a very important thing in Japan."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz

I don't know if this count as "communist" but they are two type of collective egalitarian democratic organisations that have got some success.
Have the models really changed that much in 35 years though? This one has all the highlights, radiation balance, 1D and 3D modeling, climate sensitivity, the main feedbacks (water vapor, lapse rate, clouds, ice- and vegetation albedo); solar and volcanic forcing; and ocean heat uptake.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/213/4511/957

They predict about half a degree C, and that seems to be holding up.

More interesting though, what would be convincing? Computers are fast. To paraphrase the red queen, we accurately predict 6 complex nonlinear systems before breakfast. Do you think there are other hidden effects that humans haven't observed? In what sense is it not settled?
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I'm surprised the author didn't mention model variance reduction, which is what RFs were designed to do. For example, if we generate 100 data sets which are the same except for noise, the 100 decision boundaries drawn by a classification tree will vary much more than the decision boundaries drawn by RFs on the same sets.

Here's what this means visually:

http://i.imgur.com/IjfXFkm.png

There is just one of the 100 data sets generated shown.
Very good, please continue doing that. Arguing about and working on the issues you believe to be important can be a constructive thing no matter your perspective. Likewise I will continue to argue my perspective and work on those issues I believe to be important. Dismantling pernicious groupthink is one of them.
For the merely curious, my recommendation is that you carefully not learn about this stuff unless you need it for something.

I built an automated lighting system for my house using Hue bulbs. I wanted to have more "natural" light throughout the day. Ignoring a warning from a friend ("It's as bad as knowing about kerning," he said), I learned a fair bit about color, including the very mutable and slippery concept of "white".

I like my automated lighting system just fine, but the downside is that I now notice color temperature of lightbulbs. It's as annoying; things that were previously fine are now the sources of enduring irritation. So now I'm the apparently crazy person at work who unscrews lightbulbs and moves them around my work area because somebody has randomly scattered very-warm-white and very-cool-white bulbs around the place with no attention to aesthetics or utility.

I was honestly happier not knowing. There are some things you can't unsee, and color temperature is one of them. I'm glad I could stop before I understood how bad the color representation is on my various screens.
Perhaps in a few years, we'll read an article about how all of the tweets, interviews, and off-stage antics of pop stars are also the creative work of 4 middle aged guys from Scandinavia.

The impression that I form, on rare occasions when I'm exposed to what those musicians say about their work, is that it's just as formulaic as the work itself.
I helped a friend try to figure out why he couldn't click a tab (team) on a fantasy football management site. Everything worked fine for me. I asked him if he had an ad blocking plug in and if so try disabling it. He said he didn't have one. Finally we setup a remote session so i could see his actual screen. Turns out he was using an older computer and monitor, his resolution was lower than I would ever care for but it turned out that a banner ad just above the tabs was causing the problem. I discovered it was that because after I installed uBlock and ads were blocked everything worked as it should. The Ad broke the site usability.
I agree with you, though I used the Czech Republic as an example because that's how it is commonly (yet wrongly) understood by the other side. It can be seen as collectivist in some ways, but in some it is much less. And I think the detailed comparison actually shows that the problem lies elsewhere (as you correctly state - concentration of power).
It's really ironic that the US, which literally wrote Japan's pacifist constitution essentially as the ultimate smackdown (not only did we beat you, but now you can never go to war ever again), is the one pushing to change it.
If you use an ad blocker and consume content supported by ads, you are a thief. It may be the best case scenario for your security, time, etc and there are cases where thievery is justified, but you are a thief nonetheless.
That's true, but the video and related article doesn't confirm this. All we know is that the guy couldn't scroll down on the page. There's no indication right now that the ad is actually at fault.
Everything going through it plus some noise.
Indeed, I think that the benefit of good songwriting outweighs the downside of knowing how songs are written. I'm a pretty good musician, and the one skill that I really envy is songwriting, which I just don't know how to do.

It'd have been a shame if Sinatra had tried to write his own songs, or if the Beach Boys had tried to record their own instrumental parts.
Happens all the time to me - fullscreen ads that require me to click on something to dismiss them. I won't click on an ad for any reason, so I have to close the page and go somewhere else. Ads are completely out of hand.
this is very interesting. What if the vehicle flew in ground effect (small retractable wheels for takeoff)? You'd also need a propeller for propulsion. You'd drive off the road easily though.
I think Apple deliberately cripples the browser on ipad. It really has the worst browsing experience. My android phone displays pages better. I think they want to drive people towards making an app for every website.

For eg, how many of you use an app to browse hn? Even though the website is so lean and fast, it is horrible to use on an ipad.
Yeah, Classical Latin is pretty stable. Try use it in a modern conversation and you'll realize how painful that property is. Anything that's made of plastic, uses electricity, steam, actually any original idea in the last 300 years would require inventing some neologism just so you could talk about it.
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Commonly accepted optimal strategy? I'd like to see a reference on that one. If always choosing rock works exactly as well, (against a random opponent) in what sense can randomness be called optimal? The key to winning is obviously to determine your opponent's strategy and exploit its weaknesses.
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> dealt with free market only

Show me a truly free market, then we'll talk.

The solution to pollution might just be allowing for property rights in the rivers, oceans, and air, which is not the case now. Since the state owns those regions of the environment, then market forces cannot be brought to bear in the air and water, only state misadventures and mismanagement.
That's foolishness. There's nothing in the world that compels me to use your content the way you intended. I can read it or not, store it on my backup drive, print it out and use it for the bottom of my birdcage.

I understand that content providers are frustrated. But lashing out and calling names is pointless and silly.
I've taken to popping open the devtools and deleting the offending DOM elements when this happens.
Agree 100%. Git submodules are for tracking other stuff, not for doing dev on that other stuff.

If you would like to see how things would work with submodules that behaved just like files behave (full distributed workflow) we've got a (unfortunately commercial) solution here:

http://www.bitkeeper.com/nested
I can confirm. My SO is cabin crew. One of her trips is London, UK to Lagos, Nigeria. The passengers manage to buy out all the duty free onboard. This is in addition to the gifts in the luggage hold. She has actually seen arguments take place over duty free, i.e. someone buys up all the Taittinger, others would like a few bottles but are now locked out.
Im not so sure? The word 'plastic' existed before plastic did. Does Latin not have a word for that property? And so on.
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