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This isn't an HTML subset, it's some freakish pseudo-HTML JS library weirdness.

Why not define an actual subset of HTML? You know, like XHTML Strict Mode?

Why must everything be a JavaScript library?!
None. Except for one Slack channel, which is directly derived from a subreddit.

Used to go to a country-local gamedev forum, but the owner stopped caring and eventually the community started their own website. I still have a reminder each year for the domain expiry date although I can never catch it. My plan is to give it back to the community. Edit: went a bit off topic there didn't I.
According to your description (quite controversial. .some see it as businessmen-controlled .. while others see it as a left-controlled organization ...a lot of people were not happy) Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet has all the attributes of organization representing the values of pluralistic democracy. It makes everyone equally unhappy while avoiding violence in decision making.
I wish he had stated that he is the founder of SpaceCurve more prominently. I would be interested to learn more but this post seems to be mostly marketing
Hahaha well tentatively let's say EFF...

Rhetorical flourishes aside, I'd love for you to be right and I'm perfectly content to be convinced that you are. What specific technologies or materials will get batteries over this hump? Please don't say lithium-ion because although they seem OK for phones I can't seem to buy one for a power tool that will last a year.
It would be cool to add some FORTH words to support arbitrarily sized byte addressing!

Mitch Bradley's Forth (which evolved into Open Firmware) [1], which is a purposefully word-size agnostic dialect, had the decoratively named word @c@++ which pops an address and pushes the address incremented by one ("++") and the byte at ("c@") the initial address ("@"), and the corresponding word @c!++ which went the other way. On a PDP-10 Forth that address could be a sized byte pointer!

If you had a complete set of arbitrarily sized byte processing words, then you could implement your string words in FORTH on top of those, and use whatever byte size for strings you want!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Proving that there are some serious flaws in trademark approval and that the anti-piracy lobby will happily undertake unethical practices if it serves their purpose.
Regulating or taxing emissions is simply a form of collective demand for clean air, a scarce resource. I don't see how it is any more artificial than demand for land that drives up the prices for coal mines or the demand for labor that determines salaries of coal miners.

In other words, producing energy by burning coal consumes clean air. Clean air is owned by the public and the public is charging for its use.
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I think drug development is one of the strongest cases for a patent system. However:

> many people would be unemployed

This isn't an argument at all. It's better for people to be unemployed than to be employed in an enterprise that makes everyone else worse off.

> and there would thus be no incentive to even develop new drugs

Of course there would. We had drug development before we had patents.
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I find strange your point about ARM vs MIPS given that ARMv8 seems much more 'MIPSy' than previous ARM ISAs..
After entering my email, weren't I supposed to receive my screen recording?
Those are excellent points. There's no doubt that multinationals have gamed the global patent, copyright and trademark systems. On the other hand, it is plausible that the possibility of limited monopoly would promote innovation. But how would one measure costs vs benefits?
Isn't HTML already templating engine for displaying text?
Nice to know. I was given to understand Matlab was heavily used inside of Google, but that was a while ago.

Julia, Python and Jupyter is awesome toolkit for research, presentation and collaboration.

Hooray indeed to the awesome IPython team!
> What patents were set up to prevent, IIRC, was trade secrets - they were a way to bribe creators to publish their ideas rather than sit on them.

This is what I learned too. I can't for the life of me understand why the US has trade secret laws in addition to the patent laws. From some light reading on wikipedia, the answer seems to be "why do we need a reason?"
I don't hold either of those views. I was just pointing out that the parent comment by sz4kerto seems to not be relevant to the question asked by NotOscarWilde.
Every political organization would be viewed as controversial esp. in a highly partisan atmosphere so I am not surprised to hear this from you even if it contradicts the sentiment I get from my Tunisian friends online today.

By the way, I'd take a politically ambitious organizations and NGOs over military-backed rule anytime of the day. So count your blessings and have some leniency or leeway for these organization as the other alternative would a military hellhole like Egypt (Egyptian here)

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Insurances can be done fairly though. Take car insurance (where I live); if you drive accident-free, no problem, you get a discount that grows every year (up to 70%, depending on the company). Get into an accident that wasn't your fault? No problem, the other party's insurance (which is mandatory) will pay. Get into an accident that was your fault (like I did :( ), your no-claim discount will drop because you f'd up.

My insurance doubled. This was a €900 bill though, so doing the maths, that's 9 years worth of no-claim discount (as in, I'd have to drive accident-free for 9 years with the same policy before I would earn the not-claiming-insurance back).

Of course, that's based on a motorcycle insurance, which is half as expensive as a car insurance; if I get a car insurance later, that discount (or lack thereof) will persist.

TL;DR: I have no problems with insurances becoming more expensive for people that make or get claims for things that were their fault.
That is essentially what Opera Mini does/did: requests went through Opera's render farm which would request page and render them (with adaptations) to a packed binary format and send that back to the device. There was also rudimentary JS support in the rendering farm, the device essentially got an image with an interaction map, and interactions would be sent to the server for processing.

Not very configurable though, can't really e.g. customise font size, observe the page or pass it through a screen reader.
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What are they selling, exactly? Why does this need to be a framework, with js and all that?

I'm not asking cynically, and following it up with "oh, they should just do x instead".... I legitimately do not understand what's going on here. What's the added functionality? I read the article twice, I don't get it. I'm going through the spec, I don't get it. I looked at the article source, I really don't get it, it's just html and common sense.
It looks nice to have well structured AMA apps. I wish they will post questions and answers after the sessions.
and not the non-technical, MBA-holding managers

Not that it changes your overall point to VW/VAG is a pretty big on having engineers in senior management. Both their former and current CEO have a serious technical background (metallurgy and Computer engineering respectively). As does their chairman of the board.
I read this article and it seemed to say we should be scared of capitalism AND robots. The title to this post seems to not completely match what I read. Any body else see that as well?

Also, I started thinking about how everything we need being made for us by robots was an odd concept. I have found that at my core I have a need to connect with other beings and enrich my life and the life of others by doing something creative, inspiring, collaborative, or just connecting on a fundamental level by sharing experiences with others.
Tunisia is the only functioning democracy in the aftermath of the so-called Arab spring and that's why I'm very happy see the struggle of Tunisian people to be recognized internationally like this.
No patents anywhere means companies with more money and a thumb on the pulse will unabashedly ape smaller do-ers work.

We should encourage independent inventors and small / mid-size businesses to risk capital on R&D, and reward them with a bit of protection so they can do some marketing while bringing a new thing to market, without having to worry about a big company duplicating their work and selling over them.

The internet doesn't fix the economies of scale afforded by a big cash pile, for either marketing or distribution.
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Yeah, all I can think of is why they didn't change their number? Or block that number from reaching their phone/alarming/whatever.

Secondly if the guy was so unstable that he kept sending money why didn't his family intervene by taking away his ability to send money (most likely by closing his credit card or putting very low limit on it). It also surprises me that a person with such sever Alzheimer's was still allowed to have access to firearms, sure people who are going to kill themselves will find a way, but that just seems irresponsible in many levels.
>"too many Senate re-election campaign funds being paid for by Kochs, etc."

Or maybe, just maybe, decision makers realize that this stuff doesn't have to be, nor should be, implemented overnight?

Renewable energy innovation is occurring at an incredibly fast rate. The economy is a complex thing. Adoption will happen without distorting markets with overwrought subsisidies and burning money trying to accelerate it further.
In that case it should be the shipping company's problem - they were responsible for it, they get to pay for it. If their insurance policy doesn't pay for it for whatever reason, that's not your problem.
Disagree with his last point here:

(One thing this illustrates is that the downside risk of owning is much higher than with renting.)

Financial risk, yes; health risk, no. Only a homeowner who owns and lives in the dwelling would care enough to follow the proper procedure for cleaning up a hazardous materials spill such as this.

Landlords who invest in buildings (old, decrepit buildings) for the renters' income have almost zero incentive to handle a situation like this correctly.
Lots of small police departments make it easier for bad apples to hide.

Larger police forces have larger viability and its easier to enforce national standards eg UK style fire arms training.

You also increase efficiency and reduce costs by state wide procurement.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipi3OneIw0A
There goes Snowden+Assange+Manning... again.
The requirement by law is fair. If you drive your car into someone else's, you or your insurance company should pay for the damage - the case where the victim gets nothing is thereby avoided.

In theory anyway.
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You could set something like this with App Enlight as everything you can interact with via API calls.
Why is this a bad idea?
You know we're in a bad situation when machines are firing humans.
Why? It's very intentionally not MIPSy. ARMv8 removes anything that may dictate any microarchitecture decisions, while MIPS exposes it in an ISA (delay slots and all that). Even predication had been killed for this reason (it's not good for OoO anyway).
I attended the one with Jason Fried which was really nice – easy to use! Looking forward to the next AMAs.
Every human language is 'tonal', i.e., uses tone for some significant purpose. Some languages also happen to use tone at the phonemic layer of perception. This is a minor difference. Does it surprise you that vowel length in English is phonemically significant? Probably not. Why should a phonemically significant tone be any more surprising?
Yeah, I believe it's the same in the UK. I don't think the month of waiting is too bad, cavities take a long time to develop. A checkup every 6 months should be enough to prevent them from developing too far.
>While it’s too soon to say that comment sections are outright dying— there are plenty of major sites that still have comments, including WIRED—it’s safe to say there’s a trend towards replacing them with something else. Here’s a brief history of major publications pulling the plug on comments.

In other words: something that the most active readers of a website enjoy and others can just ignore is taken out by online publications.
How so could it be awkward?
AMP tags are custom elements, they're not invalid. See http://www.w3.org/TR/custom-elements/
I feel this is Google's response to Apple's ad blocking push (maybe push is too much here, what's a better word?).

Neither AMP nor ad blocking are what is needed. We need sensible ads that are unobtrusive. We need web pages that do not track the consumer. We need smarter designs that don't use huge images everywhere. We need JS where it is needed and not just because it's cool.

We don't need two behemoths fighting over the control of our web.
Really there a substantial minority of GMG Journalists who supported the NI line and where openly anti investigating it.

And the General Public certainly thinks Journalist are not trustworthy.

And don't forget even progressive Journalists do freelance work for NI so they have to keep their head down
My post was more civil than yours, so what's the problem?

Basically forcing him to put up a patch for an unimportant issue on the same day with your entitled comment was a really crappy thing to do.
> is not maths a model of the world rather than the world itself?

This isn't right. It sounds like a very "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" view of things.

Any model of anything is math. The world is bound by the math, not the other way around.
One of your arguments was to put /bin and /sbin onto a seperate partition so that if something happens, it’s unlikely that /bin and /sbin are affected. In reality however, nobody cares about /bin and /sbin at all.

Another argument was more fine grained permission control. You can do that by other means, for example with subvolumes.

So, after all, possible corruptions are not alleviated by complex partition struture, or only with a bad trade-off for complexity. Instead, do backups. Easy and reliable. Everbody is happy, without many partitions.

Simplicity is crucial and it's one thing the free software ecosystem is consistently getting wrong. I see it as the major showstopper for many people to use it more intensively.

The filesystem hierarchy is just one culprit, but a fundamental one.

Take a look at at some fundamental pure mathematics lectures or books. You can immediately see that this was designed to be as easy as possible. Software must be the same.
Um I read every word. I fail to see the Lighting Bolt ah ha. Yes Google is in the data collection business. They have stated it since day one and in every product they produce. GMail was a GB of space if we get to send you ads.

That they were HUGELY upset that they would lose a data collection stream? Or that they were trying to figure out what to do? Android as a service has requirements or you can make a Fire Phone like Amazon did with the Open Source code of the product doesn't seem like M$.

You can explain what I am missing but the fact that we have Amazon Fire Phone and Fire Tablets all based on a fork of Android seems to kill the implications of these emails.
Yeah, I was thinking about something similar to this. The other idea I had was to have virtual byte addresses (some flags in the left halfword would be set) that are converted to real byte addresses on use. This means you could perform pointer arithmetic on them without needing extra words for that. On the other hand you'd have to convert them all the time...
Alive? Yes. Sane? Arguable, :p
It's not 100% on Google PageSpeed Insights, it's 75%. They needs now to focus on render blocking, space between the characters and gzip.
It _is_ an HTML (and CSS) subset.

JavaScript is used to implement custom elements, like amp-image. That's just how custom elements work.
>At a site like CNN, etc. The volume is too large and the kind of moderation people would put up with would be different.

So maybe they could NOT moderate there? How about totally free speech? (which shouldn't need a qualifier such as "totally" in the first place)

People enjoy writing in the comments, including those involved in flame wars (especially those: else they wouldn't participate message after message).
You'd be better off working out a way to compile smalltalk to FPGA.
That looks like an XML format for standard financial reports (balance sheet, P&L etc.) - what I was thinking about is something more general and more "event-based": acquisitions, divestments, new products etc.
Not to mention the enormous privacy trade-off of having Opera monitor and screenshot every webpage you visit.
>My comments were all short, on-topic, and never personal. I provided some sources but generally a different point-of-view than the (until then few) other comments, all right-wing barroom clichés, even celebrations of refugees drowning. None of my comments was cleared, while very vile and unfounded comments continued to pour in.

Make a screen capture video (or a few screenshots) of that happening, post it up on a competitive news site to them, and enjoy their embarrassment and backtracking...

(and help change their bad ways in the process).
A platform for sharing ad revenue.

They deliver all the amp-ads via that single piece of js, and will share some of the revenue with the publishers. It's not a bad idea after all, if only they had presented it for what it is: a Google fork of the Web. The "performance story" is just the bullshit.
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I also attended the AMA with Jason Fried and it was quite interactive compared to other AMA apps. The names on the list also seems really exciting.
> I have also been trying to write some scripts that work across multiple distros. Detecting distros is wierd. "lsb-release" is not present in most distros. "/etc/issue.net" is present in some, but not on ArchLinux.

Try /etc/os-release first (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.h...). It should be present in all modern distros (even if they don't use systemd).
Scheduled functions! Awesome! Nice job!

It's great to have more options for coding, companies can have functions being created by different teams, different coding languages and different functionalities. It's great!
Because the whole point is portability, so hardcoding /bin/env when the rest of the world is using /usr/bin/env makes it nonportable!
Have you ever looked into the negative environmental impacts of lithium mining and disposal?

Elon's battery tech has serious negative environmental impacts yet the majority of people think its perfectly green because the media hasn't yet vilified this industry like they have fossil fuels.
I don't think downandout is confused with the purpose of taxes, nor do I see it disagreeing with them.

The point I think (and to which I agree) is that real costs matter because anything can be "competitive" with enough subsidization. And subsidization doesn't make things cheaper in the real sense, it simply realigns incentives.

As is, renewables are heavily subsidized, fossil fuels are taxed heavily, and there's still a gap. It's trivial to close that gap through tax policy. So then the question becomes, what is the correct level of subsidization? I'm not sure, but I don't think the answer is "more, more, more". Because eventually you will eliminate the industry that is paying the taxes to offset the subsidized one. When it's no longer economically feasible to pay those heavy subsidies, that's when you'll see why the real cost of production matters.
Hey everyone!

I've been working on this service for a few months, felt that i need a place for keeping all trips and places i've been to and sharing them.

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Reducing access to means and methods of suicide is an important bit of suicide prevention. We should be careful not to dump extra responsibility onto carers[1]. Caring is already pretty horrendous. But clinicians should be including families in discussions about suicide risk, and access to methods.

We know that carers want this kind of involvement because carer's organisations say it. And when someone dies by suicide clinicians say that talking to the family would have reduced risk. (This is in the National Confidential Survey[2])

[1] carer refers to someone who provides care but is no paid to do so.

[2] http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuic...
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If they're putting ads in custom tags that makes it extremely easy to block them.

I think it's nothing so sinister as a "fork of the web", but a badly thought out approach of going back to faster loading web1.0 by recognizing that quite a lot of JS adds no value to the end user.
There might be less critical thinking but probably more than you think. The core Chinese culture is advocating avoiding conflicts, and the best way to achieve that to chinese is a hierarchical order. The boss determines what to do, the subordinates do it. Your engineers might very well have some questions, but questioning any person other than their subordinates is against their instinctual habbit. If you want to "see" critical thinking in your team, you need serious and even creative effort to encourage it.
The entire reason we buy insurance is to cover events like that, that one would be unable to cover personally.

Of course they can cover. It's a matter of how much you pay for your insurance, and to a large degree how much they company saves up. In the case of a hailstorm it's not because they cannot pay, it's because they don't have proper savings to cover it. A hailstorm with fist size hails is not going to cover the entirety of California, so it's very manageable.

An example, when a fireworks factory in Denmark exploded the total claim of material damage was 750 million DKK (113 million USD). The vast majority was covered by insurance companies, even though that would fall under correlated risks. One of the way insurance companies handle this is to have a joint fund with other insurance companies (I think this is government mandated), where they can withdraw in cases like this.
Who says you're doing JSON->HTML ? Both HTML and your data format need to get deserialized to DOM - depending on use case it can be faster/smaller to do the deserialization in JS from some format rather than using browser HTML parser.

HTML is actually non-trivial to parse and isn't really optimized for anything.