skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the 30-year-old, formerly called William Wood, said he was “frustrated” with the situation, adding that Facebook was “ruining” his life.

That's a bit rich.
Lou, Im not sure about Mindstorms. Damn expensive and my boy lost interest after sometime. He claims it to be "slow and clunky and not fun".
Dreaming up high level instruction sets is useless because today's CPU's spend most of their time waiting for memory access

...which doesn't make much sense, because the benefit of small but powerful multicycle instructions is precisely so you can spend the time decoding and executing them (and less time fetching them) while the CPU is waiting for some memory access. One factor that many people seem to forget is that instructions also need to be fetched from memory, and the less bandwidth that takes, the better.
> On the other hand, doing the processing on the client side means that work would be done every single time by every single client, and the result of that work isn't even preserved.

Exactly! If that amount of work on server seems big, then realize that doing it client-side means dumping a million[0] times more work on the society, with all associated electricity usage.

[0] - literally; if you have 100k visitors and each visited you 10 times, that's 1M times the work that should actually have been done.
Now, if we can just agree that natural products and traditional cures can't be patented. India has been fighting hard for that.
Weaseling out of paying is their primary job, yes.

("Companies are legally obliged to maximise shareholder value" isn't exactly true, but it's usually what people cite when a business is doing something awful)
But the client side rendering isn't static, and it certainly isn't 1000:1 R:W. There are different browsers on different devices, with different resolutions, pixel densities, zoom-levels, minimum font sizes, window-sizes and orientations.

Static client side rendering at 1000:1 would mean that you could render an image file once and serve it to (at least) 1000 clients.
I disagree - most publishers I've seen (including large and mid-level) have some of the most bloated HTML with megabytes(!) of javascript and CSS just for rendering + all the other stuff you mentioned. They are definitely not optimized.

I dont think there is any innovation at all with either Facebook or Google, it's all about keeping the user on their service longer and by hosting the content themselves, they increase speed and claim more user time. It's a pure monopoly play with Apple, Google, Facebook having far more leverage than publishers (who have really none these days). Pubs need traffic to survive which is why they are willing to work with this, but the revenue potential is still up in the air so long-term sustainability is not anywhere near proven. I'm not convinced that this will work as a viable model, beyond the technical implementation.
Then show them an AJAX spinner while fetching the static site in the background.
I'm unable to access this article without an FT subscription.
Yes but at this time the institut who is specialized in cancer had done lots of research and was very against the privatization of the public research and that the researcher couldn't research further because of this patent.

The Curie institut reacted to the patent as a research institution, here we have the impact on a practical health issue.
On a similar note. To all those who love to store movies and watch. It's always a pain to decide what to view. I wrote a tool which helps the process - https://github.com/navinsylvester/cinephile . Pip install is broken so try the git one.
Static client side rendering means you render your site as HTML+CSS+utility JS on server once, and send a saved copy to people when asked, as opposed to client-side rendering in which you send them data, a template and JS that will build all HTML in browser.
"Ok, they've outplayed us in our game. Lets call this game terrible and start a different one with new rules!"
"Eerie" "creepy" "scary"... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means…

Did someone pay gizmodo to write a faux-praise article, or is this shlock par for the course?
ML is the next commodity on the development stack. It is good to worry over the next few years, but after that, there should be a bunch of pretty solid tools out there for developers to work with. I am among the people that I believe are working on these tools.
So much FUD... Of course no single person fully understands every little detail in a complex system. This is why humans work together to build stuff and why we use contracts and abstractions to avoid dealing with complexity.

Nobody is controlling you via algorithms unless you're so weak you can't possibly think about anything other than what Netflix suggests you watch next.

Oh my, "suggestions"! The conspiracy is right there in the title! :O
DJI released OSMO, a 4k camera with 3-Axis handheld gimbal stabilizer under $650
paste the title into google and get to it that way.
Basically, thanks to CLUE, you only really get to use insurance once. Take this into account when thinking about your premiums and any claim you consider making. Insurance is for the big fire that takes it all. Also (in my experience), hire a lawyer who's wise in the ways of insurance weasel-speak to shepherd your claim. They're worth more than their fee in additional payout.

Lastly, always investigate how hard it will be to get insurance on a property you are considering buying. Water and/or mold damage claims typically remain against a property in the CLUE indefinitely.
The article doesn't seem to concern itself with that aspect at all? And the famine predates the repeal of the corn laws, to the point where the famine was an explicitly cited motivation for the repeal.
Haven't amalgam fillings been phased out yet? At least in the Netherlands most dentists now use composites to fill cavities.

Wikipedia seems to suggest that the performance of those is comparable to amalgam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_composite

Cost also seems to be comparable, where composites may even be cheaper than amalgam, because of all the environmental issues surrounding the amalgam material.
It's opportunity cost. If it goes up 10% without putting money. That's 10% you could have had if you made the right decision.

The stock market going down 10%. That's 10% you could have had, if you made the right decision.

Logically its the same. However humans loss averse, which makes one seem worse.
>No, companies will stop doing research now.

That's what I'm worried about, too.

For example C60 [1] is a curious molecule that can't be patented anymore. In a rat study it showed to prolong the rats' lives by over 90% [2] by protecting the rats from cancer.

Sadly there won't be any human study anytime soon (if at all) because it's just not financially viable without the possibility of patenting the stuff and extracting fantasy prices for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene

[2] http://www.kurzweilai.net/fullerene-c60-administration-doubl...
> But the client side rendering isn't static, and it certainly isn't 1000:1 R:W. There are different browsers on different devices, with different resolutions, pixel densities, zoom-levels, minimum font sizes, window-sizes and orientations.

Yeees, and? Response CSS designs solve a lot of that with zero server-side computation overhead, and (compared to JS templating/render engines) minimal client-side overhead.
> an aluminium smelter requires a certain amount of power coming in 24/7

Absolutely! A key point regarding energy is that you must be able to plan its availability. Lacking major improvements in energy storage, it boils down to predictability for energy production. Unfortunately, solar and wind miss it.
Anecdotes on the Internet do not actually confirm much.
The Professor I worked for in the early '90s told me that he'd been involved in some ranking exercise for one of the UK funding bodies where he was deeply unpopular as he wanted to work from objective measures and then come up with a ranking whereas the standard game was apparently to work out the rankings based on which departments everyone "knew" to be best and then designing the ranking scheme to get the "right" answer.

That kind of stuff, and the whole nonsense around the desperate scramble for publications really put me off of a career in academia.
What's sad is that this is just optimized HTML + CDN packaged up by Google and heralded as some big innovation.

I think AMP is useful as a standard: setting a set of requirements to be considered an AMP page. Having such a brand plus possible beneficial treatment in search engines, will encourage publishers to adopt it.

Sometimes a strong incentive is needed to change things.
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I see you use different machines for NGINX and auth. Do you plan to combine all of them under one API gateway like Kong?
Elon Musk and Sam Altman on Thinking for the Future
Harmful Opinion – The Linux Kernel Crybaby
> in fact lots of standard big O complexity analysis assumes a von Neumann machine – O(1) random access.

i don't see the logic here.
Regarding customers such as aluminum smelters: I wonder if nature could cope if we used fossil fuels for only them.

Another thing, while wind/solar might might be approaching the cost of fossil fuels I suspect the story may be different for developing countries. In South Africa we have power capacity problems and what was the decision? Build the biggest coal power plant in the southern hemisphere.

If we want to solve climate change developing countries are going to be a very severe problem. The people in charge have no interest in fore-sight.
University scores have always been somewhat useless, just look at the criteria they are based on.
At least I feel like they are heavily favoring already prestigious universities making it hard for anybody to catch up.

But if you think about it without considering their past, why should MIT be better rated than Tsinghua?

As of now they both are doing amazing research and I don't think that MIT is gaming the scores any less than Tsinghua is.
Frustratingly light on detail, but the possible connections to http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0703 are intriguing.
Does this mean Google will get to centralize tracking through its servers even more?
Yes, but no university can afford to take the research results, make a cure from it and bring it to market. The regulatory overhead literally devours billions of dollars to get a new medicine approved.

And if a company can not expect to have some exclusive rights on that for at least a few years no one is going to spend that money. Competitors could just take your medicine, copy it and sell for lower because they had no upfront costs of getting it approved.

The economics behind pharmaceuticals are perverted - but at least they work.
Crazy thought: detect viewport size on first load and serve pre-rendered PNGs to skip the rendering on client part.

Someone probably already developed that.
> It describes a consistent model -- for spherical cows -- and chooses not to examine whether the model fits the real world.

Ok, so to be clear, you don't have a logical inconsistency to point to? Your complaint is purely utilitarian? Well, I don't really have much to say about that except that such a perspective only ever serves those presently in power.

> The main issue is what constitutes aggression.

The initiation of force, force strictly related to property rights (derived from universal preference, not state fiat). But before you equate my views to that of an adolescent again, let me first say that you've consistently redefined words. You've indicated that english isn't your native language, which could explain it - despite your command of the language otherwise, except for the fact that all your redefinitions shift the meaning to a very broad definition that supports your position. That is what kicked the whole thread off, your redefinition of violence to include spoken word - and you've done it several more times here: aggression has been redefined to include economics, laws are now derived from ethics and not simply government decree, one's own fears (rational or otherwise) and choices as a consequence constitute restriction by some other party.

If your political opinions are so informed by nature, I don't understand how you could possibly think any system could exist where individuals enjoy the total absence of any outside stimuli that may cause them discomfort or hinder them in living out their every fantasy. Especially when the terms are subject to redefinition, and all definitions are equally valid - because... feelings.

> ...in a real anarchy, the threat of physical harm must always be present to offset other forms of aggression.

Well, that is really no different than the way things are now. I believe you are pointing to a lack of monopoly on force, which does nothing to change the net amount of bad things that can happen to you - just the likelihood of total personal destruction as delivered by the state.

> ...you've basically created a very lopsided, very non-free, and a very inconsistent system.

Consider for a moment the sort of world that we'd live in if aggression was redefined to your liking. The internet would be a very quite place after a few hundred are arrested as word rapists. Economics would grind to a halt as VCs are shuttered for all the human rights violations perpetrated in not funding everybody who approaches them. Theological laws become the norm as the vocal insane grow in number. You'll find no freedom if you live at the mercy of somebody else's emotional interpretations, but you'll certainly find consistency and equality: constant misery for everybody.
In my experience, those that bash MIT have been overrated for years.

See? I can use anecdotal evidence to offend swaths of people too.
Though you seem to want systemd to start things in the same order each time and have it be predictable, that's pretty impossible. Systemd works more on the basis of "this happened; what should be done now?".

Seems adding something to record how it started things and why it did so would help quite a bit. There's some debug mode where it limits how much it starts at once. Then some way to visualize this easily (not just a GUI/picture).
Depending on how you look at it, any part of a government's budget can be defined as an entitlement(do you feel entitled to protection from invasion?). It seems to be just a word for government spending the speaker does not like.
I think the sad part is that it isn't common practice and a standard has to be made.
OpenBSD's tame(2) changes its name to pledge(2)
Please do not mention the paywall, or talk about mentioning the paywall - it distracts from the discussion.
The next step would them presumably be to automate the consumption of these articles. Then once you've done that why not cut out the need for natural language and simply agree on some formal language that encodes the contents of the article in some way that makes it easy to process.

Given that financial articles are usually of a few standard formats I wonder how far you could go with some kind of "Financial Statement Modelling Language"?
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This also means changes to libc[1] and core apps[2].

[1] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144435394928156&w=2

[2] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144435466928286&w=2
To those that believe that US system is rotten and ineffective and think that Chinese are doing something right because they are Chinese I can tell you only one thing.
NEVER TRUST A COMMUNIST REGIME.

Even if you compare millionaires to millionaires the quality of life in China is far worse than in the USA. Never trust a communist propaganda. Never ever do that. The gov and chinese in general are known for trying to save face at every occasion and will fabricate anything that can benefit them.

If USA and UK is so bad then why thousands of Chinese are trying to immigrate there ? In Communist regime even if you are good and talented you will become a property of the state and they will use you for their benefit. Do not expect a good quality life but constant abuse for more propaganda and mind control.

No wonder that massive amount of people of Hong Kong are requesting british passports. Because in China you are nothing more than a property of a regime.
Taxes are part of the cost of electricity, and it's perfectly reasonable to include them in the cost of production. Wind power being down to within 10% of the cost of coal, that's absolutely competitive territory.

Additionally, the article notes that in some countries the costs are even higher for coal and natural gas, and in those countries, solar is certainly within competitive costs.

You might not like that governments are taxing some forms of electricity more heavily, but it's a valid way of encouraging the industry to migrate to cleaner options.
Ask HN: Microservices alternatives for highly scalable architectures?
I'd love to hear any opinions on what they are better/worse for if you have them.
If one is looking for something similar for Android - you might like Anvil: https://github.com/zserge/anvil
Slack bot that files expense reports
>The problem with upgrading distribution network is of course the MASSIVE amounts capex needed to replace it.

No. This is primarily a political issue not a question of lack of resources, and the capex and difficulty required is, while high, typically overestimated by a large degree.

The main problem is that the networks are usually owned by monopoly utilities with interests in power generation. How much do you think they want to upgrade if the net result is more competition? Hell, they'd probably pay not to have to upgrade.

>There are already extremely severe network problems in Germany for example where quite a bit of power comes from solar and wind.

"Severe" would suggest blackouts or at least brownouts like California had in 2001.

>The other problem is industrial consumers - an aluminium smelter requires a certain amount of power coming in 24/7 or the ovens will freeze and if they do, restart is basically impossible.

If you must do something impossible, do it at least... twice :) ??

http://www.renewablesinternational.net/german-aluminum-firm-...

"Over the past 12 months, German aluminum giant Trimet has ramped down production twice on request from German grid operators."

Yes, they didn't shut it off entirely, but this demonstrates that smelters who can vary their electricity usage are actually part of the solution, not the problem.

(provided Germany didn't overpay them to ramp down that is... which they may well have)
How private is it? Does it send keystrokes?
Don't be an asshole, it distracts from the discussion.
That's what one of the Blogger templates does, and I've seen people on HN complain about having to see an AJAX spinner just to load a blog.
Also at http://www.uvm.edu/~cdanfort/nolink/atmos/nature-review-2015...
See my other comment before attributing malice to my words. As a french, I've never in my life found the rules to be any good as they were biased against us and other non english speaking country (imho).
Good then that China is an autocratic capitalist country and not communist.
I suspect that the issue of web performance is less a technical problem than an organisational one. We have the technology to build performant pages right now, as well as best practises — they're just not used pervasively enough. As long as the business processes that produce the slow pages don't change, no shift in technology alone can save us.
We just tossed Abbott. Let's see if that helps.
CC BY-SA 4.0 now one-way compatible with GPLv3
If we could kill patents altogether that would be a much nicer step. Patents are an invention from another Era and make absolutely no sense nowadays, and we see them constantly abused to make our lives worse in the end.
More support for the "Out of Arabia" scenario [1], the implications of which are enormous and potentially awkward.

[1] http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2015/08/rethinking-dispersal-of...
At one point gamefaqs.com would generate static pages and serve those everywhere it could. This was before cnet bought the site though, I have no idea what they do nowadays, your post just reminded me of it.
Drool: automated memory leak detection in JavaScript
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Good luck getting the delta v required to move a rock the size of Pluto down to our orbit.
Ehr, that's exactly how it used to be. Various sysvinit scripts that all differed across distributions. It's pretty appalling the way you respond though, just dismissing instead of trying to educate. I'm reading along and I have no clue what you're on about. Maybe you mean that there was other stuff out there? I care about what is on a distribution. E.g. RHEL had upstart, but in practice it was lots of large sysvinit scripts.
He wasn't tossed, his party threw him out. We still have to wear the shame of collectively permitting those bastards to be voted in to federal government. They're still there.
Sounds like a smart idea to me. Instead of having their page clogged with comments (some of them probably snarky ones) they get a crowdsourced social media campaign. I don't think Twitter's a great medium for reasoned debate on principles, but I can see the appeal to the Mozilla Foundation.
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It doesn't matter much, the 70+ embedded youtube videos some users put into their FAQs will kill your browser either way.
No it wouldn't. Talented people would have little incentive to create something new.
This 'psychic robot' can read your mind
> xdg-open, which as it turns out opens text files in Firefox, even though light weight editors are present on the system.

It opens text files in Emacs here – did you configure your system to associate the text/plain mimetype to Firefox? (The following mostly for anybody who is interested):

$ xdg-mime query filetype <file>

will print the mimetype of <file>.

$ xdg-mime query default <mimetype>

will print the default .desktop file associated to this mimetype, i.e. the application that is run if you do xdg-open. That application can be changed using

$ xdg-mime default <.desktop> <mimetype> [<mimetype>*]

Maybe that particular distribution was misconfigured to have the default for text files be Firefox, but overall I don’t find the behaviour particularly surprising.
I don't seem to understand what this is for. If you want a fast loading page, don't add slow stuff to it.

What new is AMP bringing to the table? It seems to be some kind of a framework? Is it code or is it a preprocessor or what is it?
The myth of the genius programmer, a video (55mins)
I don't think they made any sense from the get go, not even in the steam age.

In general, the first implementation of a good idea was a bad one, of limited use, not a well refined concept. And then the patent-holder sat on the patent until it expired, and then - finally - the whatever-it-was became a vital and widely used commodity as creativity started to be applied.

So all it did was slow the pace of change.
I am not aware of right wingers that have seeked to blame the victim in the case of the 9/11 attacks. That has almost always been a theory advanced by the Chomsky-style left.
This is the US, do you really think that if there wasn't a single gun in the hands of people in the country that cops wouldn't still carry guns?
Given that studies show that over 90% of men are heterosexual, algorithm
always returning "heterosexual" result is strictly better.
Supposedly you can also use Hyper-V which is included by default on Windows 8 and later. But since the time I found that I didn't yet have a need for vagrant again.
Your example doesn't sound like an act of government policy, but rather a typical example of state-sector incompetence.
Ahahaha! China is not the Soviet Union. It's a capitalist society like almost anywhere else, and I'm positive that being rich in China rocks (apart from the air pollution).
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