skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webpack's chunking (https://github.com/webpack/docs/wiki/optimization#multi-page...) will help you get the "hybrid" approach easily. It lets you separate out common modules into JS files for you to load when needed.
What is the problem with adtech?
This argument doesn't make sense...people's consumption patterns for various goods fluctuate over time. You want to compare your 20,30,40,50 year old father with your 20,30,40,50 year old self in order to determine relative wealth.

My parents both consumed more education (much cheaper, less supply of students), earned relatively higher wages (inflation-adjusted) in a better job market (less unemployment, more aggregate demand, higher LFP rate), bought into the housing market with an affordable mortgage in a nice area, and are now expecting to collect a decent revenue of social security and health benefits on top of their pension funds.

If this holds true across the population on average, we will consume less education, housing, social security, and medical benefits than our parents. Not to mention have a poorer quality of life. On average. There will most certainly be exceptions.

The solution? Go back to a top 10 school and get that law/medical degree, then spend a decade or so paying off the loans (or have parents pay for it). Or go the high risk/high reward route of a startup and live/work like a college student for 1/20 chance to hit it big and become an angel/VC. Or network your way into finance/consulting/tech management.
All of this is true, but where is the equivalent attack on Google, whose software is essentially entirely designed to spy on you. Isn't that also Malware? Or is this sort of malware ok because it runs the Linux kernel?

I really want to support GNU and FSF but they seem to be constantly fighting some 20 year stale war against a company that is in many ways way more open than Google, Facebook, and Apple.
This implicitly "punishes" subfields that move more slowly. It can take over a year to train a monkey to perform complicated behavioral tasks. In the same time period, you could breed 50+ generations of fruit flies, or ~25,000 generations of bacteria. Furthermore, the monkey researcher will have fairly little interim data, whereas the bacteria or fruit fly work may have something interesting within a few weeks.

This could be normalized within fields, but in practice it's not. For example, the NIH K-awards have a fixed eligibility period, which seems to keep shrinking.
This article covers Berlin. How is it in other cities and states in Germany?

Berlin, as far as I know, has a unique history so that it's not always representative of Germany as a whole, in general terms.

That's to say, while Berkeley, CA, has some interesting politics, it does not reflect state or national policies. Meaning, what works in Berkeley (or Berlin) may not be transplantable.

Meaning that while interesting and worthwhile to study as a way to address housing shortages, it may or may not hold a viable answer for other jurisdictions who don't share some of the reasons making this policy viable under particular circumstances.

What's the state of affairs in Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt, etc.
Capitalism is unhalting in its slow shift toward efficiency. Every moment in a capitalist economic system there's someone racing one step ahead of someone else toward the bottom, screwing over a worker or consumer to make a penny more profit and beat his competitor. Women in the workforce was just one inevitable step, but a large one: families with two incomes obviously make more money than families with one, so it was inevitable under capitalism that eventually the more efficient double-income family would become required for survival. We're not there yet but we're barrelling full speed toward that goal, and after we reach it we'll find some other way to push even further toward the worst possible dystopia, peak efficiency.

edit: Also you're attributing success to capitalism where it should be attributed to slavery. It's easy to have a very strong economy when you have free slave labor and most economic gains are still limited by manual labor. If you want to conflate capitalism with slavery I think that's not unreasonable since slavery of some kind is essentially the end goal of capitalism but I'd assume that's a move you don't want to make, so don't try to claim success for your economic system off the backs of abused slaves.
> The need to do it this way could be entirely built into the architecture of the system, but from a "first make it work, then make it work better" stand point, the ability to hover or throttle trajectory would be an easier step one.

Of course, we can apply the same "make it work, then make it work better" stand point to the Falcon, where "work" is delivering payloads to orbit and "work better" is reusability :)
Shots Fired!
I feel as if you've decided to follow me around and find a reason to go through with your previous threat.

What exactly have I done to warrant this harassment?
"Windows 8 on “mobile devices” is a jail: it censors the user's choice of application programs."

I laughed. I don't think its their choice that the app store is horrific.
Assuming that I will always move on to another own house, and not a rented one.
We're witnessing a slow motion tech wreck
if it is a legal requirement for national security.

Is it legally required?
Yes, of course !!!
Nope - cars per capita went up.

http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/...

Homeownership has been 64% or higher since 1970.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Hi...

Houses have just become larger since then.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6843606169_618efc8942_d.j...

You are just plain wrong on all counts.
Microsoft looks to stop bike crashes before they happen, predictive intelligence
Only with the user's consent, if the user refreshes or revisits the URL they will resubmit a fresh location.
I think the problem is that they won't allow anyone else to continue working on it
Yes, that was the situation we already had. So if there is to be a 'but' then this is the more accurate one.

The very best thing would be to either say nothing or to congratulate without any reservations.
I think the problem is when you finally do need to move, and you owe 200k still but will only be able sell the house for 150k. You'll still be making mortgage payments on a house you won't even have then.
I have a laptop with optimus and it works like a charm even in steam using primusrun.
For non gaming stuff it is using the intel gpu.

All I had to do was install 2-3 packages in arch linux and that was that.
I haven't had any crashes in linux due to nvidia in many years either so I'd say that the proprietary drivers they have are stellar.
I'm a big open source advocator, however I will use what works and for me nvidia is light years ahead of amd when it comes to linux, sad as it is.
It's understandable that individual files would be slightly larger in aggregate than a single combined file, due to the compression issue that was mentioned. However, since there is no more head-of-line blocking the overhead of an extra few bytes should be negligible compared to elimination of round-trip delays. Also, if you are expecting to serve HTTP1 clients for a while it's a good idea to use a hybrid approach where you combine files, just less aggressively than you may have in the past.
I'm not a fan of pretty much anything on this list, but I do think the thing about phasing out Windows XP does stand apart. I don't know exactly how long you should expect an OS to be supported, but I feel like 12 years falls somewhere on the right side of that line.

They add the following disclaimer about that:

> A person or company has the right to cease to work on a particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having made the users dependent on Microsoft, because they are not free to ask anyone else to work on the program for them.

which if that is the case, means the whole spiel at the beginning about non-free software not automatically being malware in the FSF's eyes pretty empty if "non-free software not supported forever" is malware.
Facebook’s Mobile First Strategy: Mobile UX+1.5B Users+Ads = $2.9B
Interesting, thanks for the info!
Here's a post with some actual charts and numbers: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2013/03/15/gen-x-a.... The conclusions looks like:

1) People in the age range 29-37 (cherry-picked?) are less wealthy than the previous generation. The Great Recession explains a lot of the difference.

2) All other age groups are wealthier than the previous generation, but the gain is much smaller than it has been in the past.
As you say, it's easily explainable by capitalism, supply and demand:
* People want the nicest house they can buy, there is a shortage of houses in nice neighborhoods
* Women start working, families have more income
* supply is still short, demand has more money
* price of housing goes up, in addition to the fact that families need child-care
* gone is the extra income, cost of housing has increased, no way to turn back. Now everybody needs a double income to afford a nice home.
Nice conclusions, have you even had a look at the source for gameworks? I can't find anything that will make it run slow on AMD.

Not to mention that a huge amount of games are using Gameworks PhysX.

Unreal Engine, Unity etc also use PhysX.
They've been firing shots at Microsoft for decades now (remember "MS-DOG" in old GNU writings?)
If it was, are you sure they would be allowed to tell you?
It's preaching to the choir in the guise of persuasive writing. Almost literally, given the religious nature of the gnu belief system.
S2n and Lucky 13
Each item on the list has valid business requirements and is needed.

So, the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense? [0]

Regular malware-malare has a valid business reason for showing you ads and exfiltrating private data too. It's harder to defend because it isn't bundled with a featureset the user also likes. But nobody downloaded BonziBUDDY or hot screensaver packs because they wanted the ads.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/quotes?item=qt0418062
I disagree with everything in this article. The assumption is that Americans should be scalped for airline tickets because, they're American and rich and deserve it. To take cheap tickets away from people in poorer countries by paying in Rupees or whatever is 'unethical'.

Well, airlines are a for-profit business. They don't choose their rates out of some public-service motivation. They charge what they think they can get away with. To re-cast that as some charity program that Americans shouldn't participate in, is pure fantasy.

Get the cheapest ticket you can, from whatever carrier you can find it from, with a clear conscience. Its business.
The argument is that by having users at all you're creating dependence. After all, if you've written a business critical application to the Windows API, you're not easily going to move to any of those options.
Why do we take our health for granted?
How does TDD cause more harm than good in software design?
SAP owns lots of products and companies and many of those are written in Java, so it's possible you're just not aware it's them. E.g., Crystal Reports.

Also, it's not that companies "rarely buy SAP products" but rather that many of their customers are large corps who are on very long upgrade cycles for boring but essential products. They make a lot of their money from consultants servicing these customers. This isn't the type of thing that you hear about in the news. In recent years they've been trying to grow their mid-market reach.
Yeah we need 80% fewer resources per $ of GDP we create than we did 70 years ago, and there's is no indication this will stop anytime soon.

Yes we "need" 2 incomes to buy a house, but that house is nearly TWICE the size of the one our parents had on average, and MUCH fuller with the things we want.
As you can see from the article, this is not truly a comparison between Karma and Mocha, but I wanted the title to be intentionally provocative, to sparkle some discussion around the topic :)

We use test-automation for real browser testing but prefer to rely on quick and functional unit-testing, thus the choice to go with jsdom.

Regarding the community, you're right, there's a `karma-something` for every need.
However, mocha is pretty popular too, and getting momentum by the day. Also the fact that it simply runs on Node makes it quite easy to obtain what you want without extra plugins (e.g. coverage).
I feel like there is a lot of context lost in this quote without pointing out that it's being said by a union dock worker to a lobbyist he has been paying to bribe politicians with money earned from smuggling prostitutes and heroin into Baltimore for an international crime syndicate.
That's only a problem if Microsoft promised or implied XP would be updated indefinitely. Is that the case?
Indeed they've stopped working on Mantle in favour of Vulkan and DX12. However, Mantle seemed to be the trigger or at least a driving force for getting the other vendors to modernise their APIs.
Setting up Let's Encrypt on Dokku
Concurrently JavaScript (2)
You're missing the part where people actively avoid going to the doctor unless they're super sick/injured because the doctor is too expensive, even with insurance. The paradigm of consumption of medical services has changed: the doctor will not permit you to visit them, and then not get referred for tests XYZ and drugs ABC; it would be negligent for the doctor to not provide the standard of care to the patient, and the standard of care is immensely expensive relative to yesteryear.

Was medical bankruptcy a thing in the 1970s?
He meant in Silicon Valley. 150k is about average for someone with 8-12 years experience. If you're not making 150k, you need to find a new job.
Does this mean the back-end could more easily be switched to say Go?
That's absolutely amazing.

http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html

I saw the thread on HN when it passed (even commented on it) and then promptly forgot. Thanks for the reminder.
Why don't you point out the spy software on the Android Open Source Project?
Just watched the video....I think it's pretty lame that Jeff Bezos has no idea how to spray champagne out of a bottle.
A visual search engine for electronic component selection. The site contains 28 million documents, over 29,000 manufacturers, 18 million component images.
This is way a Neo Nazi or KKK member would describe people of color, cherry picked 'facts' to build an absurd argument.
How exactly does a factual statement, "Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users that pay exorbitantly," cause Fear, Uncertainty, or Doubt?

Are you really uncertain about whether Microsoft will EOL your current Windows version, or what that will mean for legitimate businesses who need it to continue to function?

If you don't want to hear what the FSF has to say, that's fine. But their statements are carefully worded in the hopes we can have a calm, logical discussion about the issue -- user freedom has become impossible with Microsoft's latest OS.

This submission is not intended to be biased.
Is the size of SQLite really a problem? Is its reliability something that hardware devs are willing to sacrifice?

(In other words, how big is SQLite and what are the size restrictions for IoT devices – I haven't built one before)
People who get hired for below-average salaries don't talk about it (or lie). 100k might be the norm at a giant company, but I've seen many startups offering 80-90k to people with a few years' experience and advanced degrees.
Really? I just did a search on Redfin centered around Boston for sales in the last year, SFH (3bd/2ba, etc), and built within the last 25 years and found the averages to roughly be near a million...

Loosening the age to all years, I saw the average to be about 650-700k. That is 140k down payment plus a probably expensive upgrade to the old and aging systems in the house...
"Journalists" not understanding basic physics? Shocking!
In the meantime, the EFF is actually fighting for your freedom and right to not be spied on. Consider donating to them. I switched my monthly donation to the FSF to the EFF instead many years ago as I feel they're doing more to help keep society free than the FSF.
> most stuff is more expensive

On the contrary, I think the thing that has deceived us about how much poorer we've become is cheap stuff. TVs are cheaper than ever. We spend less as a percentage of income on food than we've ever done in the past. Even automobiles and computers are more affordable than they've ever been. To a superficial viewpoint, we have more purchasing power than we've ever had (and the CPI includes many of these items which give that superficial viewpoint).

But we see the true regression in purchasing power once we look at things that haven't benefitted from lowered manufacturing costs. Housing, education, health care and the like are showing the true nature of the situation of how poor we've become.

P.S. Yes, I know I took the quote out of context and I'm more agreeing with you than disagreeing with you. But there is a distinction to be made that it's not all stuff that's more expensive, just the important stuff.
In almost any other context the content being delivered here would be considered a "hit piece".

I'm a bit miffed. The choir is already converted, so to speak, so this is not the intended audience, others, non converts, would mostly be put off by the over the top style and rhetoric.

Moreover, the article focuses on one vendor when other vendors follow similar policies but those aren't visited in the article.

So.... What gives?
I mean, the short answer is "no." But the longer answer is more complicated than that. Start off with the question of, is the consequences of not being able to access your device worse than the consequence of someone else getting unauthorized access to your device (or is it worse, controlling for the probability of each?) And then, is Microsoft's storage of those keys more or less secure than any alternative way you could back up those keys remotely? It's possible to both not trust Microsoft to store the keys safely and to make a rational decision to entrust the keys to Microsoft anyway.
How do you find these good telecommute jobs? I'm a web developer and would love to telecommute.
The author must be trolling.

I always get the cheapest price and do not care about the other nonsense.
Note what the actual source for that says:

> Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process.

The implication being made in the gnu page is that Microsoft delays fixing bugs so that the NSA can exploit them. The source article says something slightly different though, that they inform "various" agencies prior to the patches going live. I suspect the linux kernel devs do too, or Firefox, or any number of open source projects. I'd be more surprised if none of the people on the security lists for those groups don't have a list of agencies (both US and otherwise) they send bugs to .
I thought we were talking about "where do I get a dedicated server"? If you're serious about moving your entire infrastructure onto dedicated hosting, you have to pick up the phone and negotiate a deal. The off-the-shelf options are pretty limited, as you point out.
Ya... Also they said that the code will be available today on the same repo (on the master branch, the current link is on another branch).
Also http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/malware-apple.html
You'll have a hard time finding any believer in any religion who would admit to the biases in their beliefs.
I agree. That one jumped out to me, too. Reminds me of one of the first expert systems, MYCIN, that diagnosed and prescribed for bacterial infections with hospitals on ancient, AI tech. The system did better than doctors generally. Need more tech like this focused on whatever we can in medicine.

Additionally, I think a large investment of it put into both fixing software bugs and software re-engineering w/ bug-for-bug compatibility from legacy platforms would be worthwhile. A crisis may loom as all the enterprise apps written for obsolete, lock-in tech just get larger and more incomprehensible with builders retiring or dying off. Flexibility demands being able to adapt best platform for the job but seems like survival in that space.
I agree with you but I think there argument would be that you could maintain the software "yourself" or hire someone to do so; presumably not at exorbitantly high rates.
They do clarify that it is only "wrong" because the proprietary nature of the OS means that third parties can't carry on supporting users after official support ends. Still pretty shaky reasoning, in my opinion.
What is a unikernel?
We bought a 4 bed in Medford (10 min walk to Davis) in February 2015 for 765k. Later in the spring, we sold our previous 3 bed in Wakefield (10 min walk to commuter rail) for 465k.

Prices are reasonable, but houses sell quick. Both the house we bought and the house we sold had multiple offers the Monday after the first open house weekend.
Or their absolutely ridiculous Bad Vista campaign?

http://badvista.fsf.org
Integration tests are better handled on CI by test-automation tools like NightwatchJS or Capybara, imo.

Using Karma and Phantom for unit-testing it's just overhead to me.
That still has nothing to do with orbit, making Elon's tweet(s) a non-sequitor.

Edit: I see the Musk posse has arrived at this comment.
Hovering in 1.622 m/s² gravity in a vacuum is significantly simpler than hovering in 9.807 m/s² gravity plus wind.

That said, it's clearly possible.
From a law perspective the situation is very similar. Tenants can't be evicted easily. In areas of high demand rents are (mostly) indexed as well.

Compared to Hamburg, Munich and Dusseldorf Berlin is still rather cheap. I have apartments both in Hamburg and Berlin and pay roughly ~1.5 as much per square meter in Hamburg, though the one in Berlin is in a much better location.
Investing in space is great for humanity in general but what's gonna stop this industry from going the way of the airlines?

Is this gonna turn into a price war ?
You can consider the greater Toronto area as a case in point. We had greenbelt laws enacted for supposedly environmental reasons. We got shitty, tiny condos all over the city and million dollar detached houses.

What I thought was particularly perverse was builders lamenting that no one wanted 3 bedroom condos, which is why they were building so few. Complete B.S.! Since they charge per square foot, no one can afford the 3 bedroom condos!

I recall reading somewhere how this will eventually affect the fertility rate. As a couple that waited quite a bit longer to have kids, I can see this being accurate.
But, to the public who elects the representatives who control the budgets of the agencies that make the investments, it does matter. It can be critical.

We have people elected congress who don't believe in things like evolution or climate change, which affects national policy, budgets, and investments. Same thing.
There is very little to think about here.
World GDP/World population is ever increasing. As such it should be obvious that sons have a better life than parents except in the presence of: 1- local conflict or 2- in the presence of a class that amasses of an unfair amount of resources.

We are clearly in situation no. 2 and these are exactly the periods in history where revolutions start. When the rich get so greedy they make people's quality of life decrease in a broad scale they invariably are tamed by violent uprisings.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=world+gdp+%2F+world+pop...
What about it hitting the ground bothered you? It apparently touched down at 4.4 mph which is a little slower than if you stepped off an 8in. platform. Basically find a standard staircase and slip off the bottom step and that's a touch less jolt.