skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit I didn't know about the HTML link preload feature. This presentation does a good job at emphasizing (but hopefully not exaggerating) its effectiveness.

However, may I suggest a completely radical alternative at optimizing your webpages? Don't just avoid Web Fonts, avoid CSS altogether. Take a look at my website. Did you notice how fast it loaded, despite not using a CDN?
Of course, this is a bit tongue-in-cheek. There are many legitimate uses of styling web pages, but for websites whose purpose is simply to convey information (the main reason people were excited about the WWW in the 90's), I personally think unstyle'd, or mostly unstyled HTML is the best way to go.
"Whilst running Anchor I realised that we could accurately the which hosting companies"

"Realized", and they accidentally a word.
Just looked at similar web and tested 3 sites I work with. They are pretty accurate on their traffic estimates. Anyone know how that is calculated?
T1D for 10 years here, I'm now 20. The longer you live with T1D, the risk of getting a complication worsens.
The sad fact is you can't control it all the time, the hormonal changes, your stress levels etc. all have an impact on your glucose levels.
Especially if you are young, you want to show people that you're not a disabled person, that you can work harder and achieve the same if not better results than the others.
The immediate result of this is that your glucose levels fluctuate, your health deteriorates.
But complications are in your opinion worse consequences that could happen to you. You are adjusted to seeing blurry, feeling dizzy, vomiting, losing weight from time to time. You generally feel sick. You can cope with that, but having a permanent disability, like going blind, losing a foot... You suspect things, but ignore them because you don't want to face reality, you know that something is wrong but you think you can handle it, because you've been feeling sick all your life.
The doctors do know what complications may arise, but living with T1D, they have no clue. You always need to be conscious of lows, aware of highs. After a point, if you're a teen you just ignore it. Low blood sugar can kill you immediately, but highs, you can live with them.
My best advice would be: eating less carbs, getting blood tests and eye examinations regularly and hoping for the best. I wish I had the willpower to follow these all the time.
Jewel Shuping who dreamed of being blind had DRAIN CLEANER poured in her eyes
Your comment was off-topic and uninteresting. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not, or that it's some dude's (i.e. your) opinion. It's about as enlightening as a banana. Don't pretend this is about some minutia of phrasing, either.
I also disagree. It should be started again. It is very nice to see what people wants and it creates another ideas which can benefit community. If it is not interesting for someone it does not mean it is not interesting to others.
Probably this: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/may/24/bt-hacked-ghost...

Criminals were tampering with phone lines in junction boxes, using them to make expensive calls.
I think that basing your decisions on, with all due respect, gut feelings about the software development processes at Google and Toyota is still the wrong approach.

We need to have open testing environments - government / regulatory / whatever defined tests that tell us the systems under test are performing as expected. And have enough openness around the concepts such that VW style approaches to beating tests are .. Easier to find.

But interesting point about the development processes - something is there
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Can we not have a way to count, the most used Javascript, and Web Front in the most popular worldwide 500 Website in one And these will always be cached by one Repository, and all browser maker will constantly check and update a same copy of cache within the users computer?

It will save lots of Request, and latency.
In Australia, "realised" is the preferred spelling.
That would be the Google street view car?
haha this woke my neighbours.
It is actually Indian philosophy, based on Upanishads, much older that anything Greek/Roman. Basically, they say that it is your "ego" which prevents you, like a veil, from seeing reality as it is, because your mind is constantly busy, preoccupied with petty desires and childish concerns. Think of the ego as a virus processes with results in a high load average

load average: 5.38, 5.30, 4.11

The oldest maxim says - let it go (killall -9) and you will find everything (the ultimate reality, which is unity of everything, the state above socially conditioned intellect (which could be called 100% idle), and source of endless joy (due to personal realizations of unity and non-self) which is (and always been) within you.

This is, by the way, the basis of Buddhism, which nowadays is ruined by piles upon piles of narcissistic commentaries of so-called teachers.
> Fonts are relatively small compared to media ... a web font is practically one photo. It is not that expensive at all.

That may be true in the United States and Western Europe, where a typical font only needs to encode a hundred glyphs or so. But even Google webfonts begin to get rather hefty if you include Central European and Cyrillic characters.

Things get even worse with CJK fonts that have (tens of) thousands of glyphs. I have yet to find a Korean webfont that comes in at less than a megabyte, and most common webfonts in my country take up several megabytes apiece. It's really annoying if you're on a metered connection, not to mention s-l-o-w to load.

> We don't want to revert to text graphics.

Of course we don't want to... but things are so bad in CJK-land that I once wrote a library [1] that automatically generates text graphics given a string and a font file. It creates a separate image for each word, reuses them where possible, and automatically adds alt-text for search engines and screen readers. So at least it's an improvement over old-fashioned text graphics.

[1] https://github.com/kijin/imgtext
UK Background: Last government (the coalition) decided to move part of the financial burden of a University education from the state (in the form of a 'teaching grant' paid directly to the University) to the student (in the form of a low rate loan as described by SixSigma). This was entirely within the ideological position of one of the coalition partners, but was a bit of a u-turn for the other partner with rather drastic results in terms of support.

The Student Loan Company in the UK has to borrow money at commercial interest rates in the financial markets. The difference in costs between the interest rates paid by the company and the interest paid back by the students will be met by the government. It isn't clear to me if there will actually be any net saving to the taxpayer at all - I recollect seeing (but can't find a reference at present) an analysis that suggested that the policy will actually cost more money compared with the previous direct grant system for the next 20 years or so. I suspect the payback period will depend on the number of graduates who get stuck in low paying jobs.

I would love to see any more recent analysis.

Back on topic: good luck to these people!
I agree that the form of the words can be a good way to convey information. That's why we have bold and italic. There's no need to change the entire font when you could use those standard variations of a familiar font. You're also losing something important (familiarity) by allowing designers to change fonts at will, and I argue that's a greater loss.
The basis of your position seems to be that if one or more parties has a sense of superior mindset then a real discussion can't take place. That is incorrect by definition.
Prefetch is interesting, but with Google Fonts, the target URL will be unpredictable due to browser detection techniques.
I think they use DNS data to estimate the amount of traffic.
The idea of some "ultimate reality" is so annoying to me. There is regular ol' reality which our mind and senses have evolved to perceive as best they can via natural selection over millions of years.

The reasons we have a lot of "scripts" running in our mind is because they have historically helped us survive and pass on our genetics. Turning them off doesn't manifest joy but a genetic dead-end, in aggregate.
Thats the right direction. But why put the burden onto supermarkets? Producers of food should be required to visually indicate the proportional sugar content on the packaging. Imagine a box of cereals, the bottom third of which has to be white in order to indicate that 1/3 of its contents is indeed sugar. No more searching & parsing fine print with unintuitive text.
3. Readability

My enjoyment of the web improved immensely when I disabled font selection on web pages and imposed my own serif font over them all.

Occasionally this does result in breakages when a particular site relies on icons embedded in a web font but I accept that as the cost of my choice.
Of course the math adds up. You can't run a university without a home in Fire Island, and that shit's spendy.
Would a self organised University be possible in the US system?

A group of teachers using cheap space and online communications to provide lectures/support/assessment with students then taking exams accredited by another institution? Possibly with sponsorship/organisational support from a voluntary sector organisation?

That is basically how most Universities outside Oxford/Cambridge/Edinburgh/Aberdeen started in UK in the Victorian period. The University of London was set up to validate degrees provided by various constituent colleges in the regions. There was a strong non-conformist (Baptist/Methodist) input on the funding and organisational side.
Too much work for 30ms speedup.

However link preload seems to be golden.

But what is preload vs prefetch?

Ah firefox will only prefetch when the browser is idle.

So we have to wait for preload support.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-rel-prefetch

http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-rel-prerender

http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-rel-preconnect

(doesn't work as of 10/2015) http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-rel-preload

http://www.w3.org/TR/preload/#introduction
I'm worried in the long term.

The way I see it, automation destroys jobs for stupider people and creates jobs for smarter people. Ten jobs making widgets are replaced by one job as a widget robot repairman (and 0.001 of a job of a widget robot designer) and bam, we're making ten times more widgets. But the job of robot repairman is a more intellectually difficult job than the factory workers had in the first place.

Hundreds of years ago, 95% of jobs could be done with a two-digit IQ, because they were things like ploughing fields and herding goats. But we've been automating all the easy jobs and creating new, more fulfilling jobs, and getting richer in the process.

At some point though, which I think is right about now, we cross the point where less than 50% of the jobs can be done with a two-digit IQ. We no longer need manual labourers, we need people who can design and maintain robots. And the fact is that 50% of the population is of below-median intelligence and will have trouble doing these new jobs.

What do we do with all these people who are incapable of performing any worthwhile role? In the longer run perhaps we can genetically engineer people so that everyone can be a robot engineer. But in the meantime?

So yeah, I think it is a genuine problem we're going to have to face eventually.
Autonomous vehicle races are at least 25 years older, but of course, the courses where way, way simpler then: http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/the-am....

The linked article at http://cyberneticzoo.com/tag/amazing-micromouse-maze-contest... shows why, sometimes, the dumb solution is better than the smarter one:

"For a mouse to be truly capable of learning a maze and making smart decisions about solving the maze, physical control of the mouse must be both accurate and repeatible. No attempt was made by us to implement our learning algorithms for our micromice until our control software was good enough to accept the learning algorithms."
Perhaps it matters to YOU whether it's real or not. But people are different.
ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat (2008)
That gave me more of a sense of urgency and egoic ambition, not the other way around.
I would like to see an image diff which could reason about insertions and deletions as well as just changed pixels. For example if I were to insert a new section in a webpage, and take a screenshot before and after, the image diff would show the new section of the screenshot in green.
This has been suggested before, with combinations of ultracapacitors and batteries.[1] When a electric vehicle with regenerative braking brakes hard, that can produce more power than the battery can accept for charging. Dumping the energy into ultracapacitors is a good way to store it for a short period.

Laptops? Probably just a gimmick. It won't increase the stored energy.

[1] http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/pdfs/merit_revi...
[2] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/417053/a-battery-ultrac...
Thanks for the feedback.

Indeed, one of the reasons behind inheriting tables was to use partial indexes - which should help with performance. Another was ease scaling out, if needed.

Using the @> operators on array columns is something I also looked into, mainly for materialized paths - I expect them to remain static, so no expensive updates to the paths/arrays. But actually, I don't think I will need many self relationships - that was the third reason for using inherited tables, so I could split entities into separate groups.

Of course, I have no idea how any of it will work out, since this was just a semi-serious line of inquiry initially, and everything was conceptual so far, except the feedback of experienced people such as yourself, on this thread - which has led me to pursue this seriously and actually try to build it out. After reading the responses on this thread, I now think it will be worth the effort.
I understand what you are trying to say. But the author does point out that having a quiet ego is associated with many positive life outcomes. He links to this paper - http://selfdeterminationtheory.org/SDT/documents/2003_BrownR...

I haven't gone through the referenced paper but I think it should answer your question to an extent. Also, I feel that the author has been quite diligent has linked to multiple papers to back up his points.
What bothers me more is that the intelligent are too busy working to have kids, while the lowest classes now want basic income and will have all the time in the world to start large families. It's absolutely dysgenic.
I rofled
Same in Denmark, but I've not yet seen a near miss.

In the UK, when the pedestrian has a green man all road traffic has a red light, without exception. (Same for cycle paths crossing roads, but they're rare.)

I'd guess foreign drivers would get this wrong in NL, DK etc. Turning right and thinking "the pedestrian has seen me, I have a green light, they will wait" when the pedestrian is thinking "they've seen me, I have green, I can cross".
> Under current Japanese law, the man can be charged with damage to property, but not injury, since injury is a charge reserved for humans. Dr. Yueh-Hsuan Weng, who is cofounder of the ROBOLAW.ASIA Initiative at Peking University in China, and former researcher of the Humanoid Robotics Institute at Waseda University in Japan, thinks a better charge lies somewhere in between.

I try not to be too dismissive, but this is very silly.

I'm all for having a conversation about AI rights when... well, when I can have that conversation with an AI, I suppose. But as of right now, it really is just a bucket of bolts, and I don't think giving it special rights for happening to be shaped like a human is in any way the right direction to go.
Just because I can
Finding Good Engineers Isn't Hard
Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is alive and well, at https://developer.yahoo.com/yql.
The Blockchain Might Be the Next Disruptive Technology
I disagree. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. :)
Have you tried ansible?
but putting them in a context where they can be maximally effective is
Doesn't look like a small SUV, too close to the ground.

If it's not simply a renamed 3, perhaps it's a two-door grand tourer? Possibly built on a Model S platform.

Or heck, maybe a high-priced supercar, why the hell not? There's enough rich people who would buy one.
Not necessarly, now our enviroment evolves much quicker than us, so sometimes our "scripts" don't tell us the best solution to nowadays problems(e.g. overeating because now you have food, tomorrow who knows).
I would not want to live in a world where all websites look like yours.
That's why the "public option" was such a decent choice. Before it was killed to sell-out to insurance companies.
And of course, javascript just to show static content.

Needs html, body tags, but otherwise I like it.
Use preconnect headers: https://www.igvita.com/2015/08/17/eliminating-roundtrips-wit...

That is all you should do, it will land in Chrome stable shortly and is already in Firefox.
This is bullshit. The web being "space organized" is simply a digital representation of analog life itself. Everything we live in and interact with is "space organized". Everything is independent. Everything is its own world. Nobody wants a unified "life feed" with everything mixed up. Not only is it lame and confusing but it is also very impractical. Think of how many notifications you have on any given service right now: probably too many already. Putting them all in one place is just hell.
I don't know I mean this idea is just plain ridiculous. How boring would it be having only one destination where everything had the same format? Different websites and different formats are all different canvases that allow for individual creativity and innovation. This is what makes the web interesting and ever evolving.
The absurd student loan system is what fueled tuition inflation in America. It needs to be abolished.
Lunar landing via a linear accelerator (1977)
The way it looks to me housing will be a bigger factor. People are more and more moving to cities leading to rising prices, which makes it difficult for most people to earn what they need for living.

I don't see how this will be changing in the future.
Taj+Mahal:+Agra,+India
xkcd did it.

http://xkcd.com/1577/
I think the OP is looking for the ability to upload a screenshot somewhere automatically.
Preparing ourselves for new era of marketing
This. CSS should be left to the clients and not to the servers. Just serve a plain HTML file and let the users (or their browsers) decide what to do with it.
Why serve HTML at all then? Serve text, it's even faster.

I bet a website with inlined CSS on a CDN is much faster than yours.
The hype is just out of control on this. It's a new tool in the lab that is of some use, but none of these other fantastical claims are anywhere near the real world, and they may never be. This method suffers the same risks as viral therapies that have also been very difficult to bring to real patients.
last time I saw one (at Kinkos) it had a human behind the wheel.

me: "hey! how many lenses!?"
him: "I cant talk about it."
me: "eh. how's the res?"
him: "I cant talk about it."
me: "ah. Can you say how far you drove today?"
him: "no"
me: "are they listening now?"
him: (jokingly) "maybe."
Note this is also relevant to any external dependency, re degraded performance and outright failures of third-party hosting. Apply to all vendors.

(See sibling comment about typography.com failure mode.)
He has lots of links. It's the web as TBL intended.
I also highly recommand the Dale Carnegie book. People who are reading this, don't dismiss this book based on its quite bad title, the book is actually really good.
I guess I should also say I am looking for entry-level to junior work as I am looking to gain experience on the frontend side of things. I am open to anything but would prefer remote work if it's an option.

Really I would do anything to learn ~ even if I'm only doing data entry. I can program, QA, document, transcribe, research ... I've had my more successful friends peer-review my resume - I'm not sure why I seem to have bad luck getting hired. I have had interviews but I live in California and it seems awfully competitive for new devs.

I would happily relocate to Portland, Seattle, San Diego, or Chicago. I would work for any company except Amazon. :> (I have applied several times and never heard anything back. I've also read some things I don't agree with relating to working conditions..)
I'd love that. I think a lot of teachers would be happy to get rid of the bloated administration in their university.
As a NoScript user, I rarely see web fonts and I prefer it this way. The text shows up instantaneously and the font will look great and be perfectly readable.

Most web fonts don't look that nice on Windows. Windows heavily relies on hinting and doing this properly is a lot of hard mind-numbing work.

Most web fonts also aren't that readable. Sure, your wide/thin/square font looks very modern and stuff, but it's not as readable as a Verdana or Arial. When I visit your site, I'm there for the text, not the font.
>but do you have any other favorite authors who play with concepts like these?

Maybe Philip K Dick, although his books are not exactly hard science fiction. But they explore the nature of reality in often mind-bending ways.
Maybe. Maybe not. Viral therapies suffer from one problem: viruses. (They might be infectious, or not. They might be attacked by the immune system or not.) CRISPR technique does not need an external vector.
What does amd64 have anything to do with this?
It's based on supply and demand. Since anyone and their dog can get a student loan, and the federal government guarantees those loans, demand for college education is basically inelastic. You can keep raising prices without losing students: they're just going to borrow more money. It's basically the same mechanism as that of subprime loans, where anyone got to buy a house they couldn't afford, except that it's federally mandated.
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