skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite happy with my own web page/blog. Pages hover at around 10kb, 30kb if I include some images. I think the page size can be attributed a lot to there being no JS except for GA.

I have taken a lot of inspiration from http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

Of course the size will differ depending on the site's purpose, but I feel like most web pages could stand to loose a lot of weight.

EDIT: I have a guide to setup a similar blog/site here[0]

0: https://hugotunius.se/2016/01/10/the-one-cent-blog.html
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548239
>There is a part of me that loves these stories about serendipitous discoveries.

The discovery of LSD is a fascinating example of this.

Hofmann experienced some sort of altered state of consciousness after first synthesising it. The interesting thing is that it lasted about two hours, which means he could not possibly have accidentally ingested some.

He then reports he has a "peculiar presentiment" that there's something special about it, so decides to deliberately take a dose. The rest is history.
The Clintons made hundreds of millions off speaking fees and donations to their foundation, Presidential library, etc. We've perfected many avenues for graft here in the US.
what is the cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to the company in dollars ?
Conflict of interest? Public servants and private entertainers are different things.
when you bring life into this world you condemn it to suffering this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
the cool thing about stuff like this (I am familiar with a few different efforts along this vein) is that you can combine something you are with something you know. the downside of fingerprints and retinas is they can be passively recorded and replayed, but with the brain, you could build an authenticator that only works when the user is cooperating with the authentication scheme, and, recording and replaying the electrical signal from the brain won't spoof the authenticator.

until you really refine the task down to take a few seconds and you have dry cap electrodes, it's still untenable, but progress has been made on the latter.
I've been using Node on Windows for about a year and have had exactly zero of these problems. If Visual Studio has ever been installed, it's been done silently by npm (which I seriously doubt).
you can scale it up on a generic compute farm like kubernetes?
The name already caused it to be mentioned in my kid's school, they found it humourous.
This is basically what [Decentraleyes](https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes) does. It helps especially on mobile, though it's not exactly life-changing IME.
My original comment was not just about communication, so I'm not sure what bird calls have to do with any of this. Even so, it is unclear if birds actually have infinite use of finite means in the expressively meaningful way humans do. Regardless, language's communicative ability is only one part of the uniqueness of human capabilities - birds clearly do not have the thought/reasoning capabilities (to which language is tightly entwined) that we do.

We can point to behaviors that are unique to us. Since these behaviors must have some cognitive basis, they can serve to tell us how different we are. There is clearly a reason that no other animals understand abstract math or build rockets that fly into space. We simply haven't seen any evidence of other animals creating new knowledge and explanations using internal, rational thought in the way that humans do.

The original point of my post was simply to suggest that there is, in fact, a "psychological secret sauce" that makes humans different from other animals. We don't yet understand the nature of this secret sauce, but this should not preclude us from doing the things that De Waal wants to do: to understand animals on their own terms and avoid treating them like "defective adult humans" simply because their brains are different.

> Rather than studying where animal cognition, especially in genetically related species, resembles human cognition, we should be studying where it differs from human cognition.

I am unaware of any scientists that think we shouldn't study where animal cognition differs from human cognition. There is no reason to favor differences over similarities, they can both give insights.
The problem is the quantity of CDNs on which jQuery for example can be found.

For instance, your site might pull it in from cdnjs, while I have the one from ajax.googleapis.com already cached. I still have to go fetch your selected version.
DoD wants “Secure Messaging Platform“ with deniability, forward backward secrecy
Take a look at his Protocol for Dying

http://hintjens.com/blog:115

Specifically, the fourth bullet point under "Talking to a Dying Person" is

> "There's this experimental cure people are talking about," Which gets the ban hammer from me, and happily I only got a few of those. Even if there was a miracle cure, the cost and stress (to others) of seeking it is such a selfish and disproportionate act. With, as we know, lottery-style chances of success. We live, we die.
Because modern web sites circumvent the HTML engine and request JSON from the server which they then render via JavaScript.

Other bugs with the modern web authoring style:

1. broken back/forward functionality

2. broken scroll bars

3. broken accessibility

4. broken memory of where the page was at when closed, leading to a fresh load of the page on Re-Open-Closed-Tab

5. infinite scroll being highly unnatural
I've only heard about for wing based uav's , not quadcopters. Maybe this is a good sign for Google's drones, which use wings, but rotate their rotors for landing.
Living in NY, which is not even that far north, I always peak in feeling great in October and then I just completely go to shit after the clocks change in Nov. This week, it has been beautiful everyday, and I've been outside a lot as a result, and I feel amazing! We are still at the mercy of the sun.

Growing up in TX, though, I never really gave this kind of stuff much of a thought. The sun and humidity are so oppressive, that you spend half the year wishing it would go away, and winters are finally relaxing and time to be outdoors.

This year, however, with the results of El Niño, it has been incredibly mild fall and winter and quite sunny. I did not as a result suffer any seasonal depression. Many others who do get SAD every year have reported the same.
Yeah, there will be Object.keys/Object.values/Object.entries and you can use it in an for of loop.

for (let [key, value] of Object.entries({a: 1})) { console.log(key, value); }
Internet infrastructure is far from being cheap, and CPUs are not free either.

> Who cares? 2.2MB is nothing in 2016.

Multiply that by the amount of internet users, and now try to imagine all the hardware running this.

It's also about having a format that discourage bloat so that the web can be faster on a large scale.
Well, that's been the case with Arab spring, Syria and Lybia: when US sees (often, mistakenly) that faction with more westernized values can take over, US supports it.

However, it is completely rational: "spreading democracy" is valid not only from idealism, but from the notion that it's much easier to deal with governments and societies that share your values. Of course, US have not always followed this motivation throughout history, but in case of islamic arab countries in the last years, US has pretty solod record in that regard.
I'm beginning to think the "bubble" has more to do with financial news needing something to report on and get people's attention than the broad performance of the industry.

In that case, it's the "Ad Bubble" not another tech bubble.
>That seems like a population that would be pretty hard to keep going without having a few extra Earths.

Do you think this problem is merely very difficult, or literally impossible to solve (e.g. because of some physical law)? I think that if a bunch of really smart humans tried really hard to solve this problem, and you predicted very very confidently that they would fail, then I would be pretty skeptical of your confidence. Just as an example, you suggest getting some more Earths. Sounds like one solid approach; expand humanity to other planets!

>We are all going to die someday and there is nothing we can do about it. [...] I don't believe anybody will ever find immortality (at least not in this life).

This might literally true, in the sense that we probably can't survive the heat death of the universe in however many bazillions of years. But do you think it is implausible that advanced medical technology could e.g. keep us alive, healthy, and sane for, say, thousands of years? This sounds both plausible and quite desirable to me, and I'm confused by your statements---for instance, I can't tell whether you are making a factual claim or an aesthetic claim.

>The people seeing cryogenics are largely snake-oil salesmen.

Eh? They seem pretty sincere; the people who run these organizations (Cryonics Institute, Alcor) are generally themselves signed up for cryonics, and speak passionately about life extension as a desirable goal. Cryonics is not exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.
The total between them is $153 million.
What happened to semantic markups? In the name of rendering optimizations, many web sites use css background image instead of <img>
Why do you use so much emoticons in your article?
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Not to mention that using the latest stable jQuery/Bootstrap from CDN means it's likely to be cached before a user visits your site.
https://pljns.com/

> 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow

[x] check

> You loaded all 7 fontfaces of a shitty webfont just so you could say "Hi." at 100px height at the beginning of your site?

[x] assuming 404'ed fontawesome as shitty webfont, check

> You thought you needed media queries to be responsive, but no

[x] check

> Your site has three bylines and link to your dribbble account, but you spread it over 7 full screens and make me click some bobbing button to show me how cool the jQuery ScrollTo plugin is

[x] check

Still pretty good site, but it's funny how accurately creator of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ has described the situation with the modern web :)
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Thank you for the piece. Really good. I mean I give up on Wired, not on content.
These days, for simple interactions, youmightnotneedjquery.com is a good resource for those trying to curb that sort of behavior.

On the framework end of the spectrum, we have efforts like Mithril.js that try to provide a minimalist set of tools for more ambitious web applications.

So all is not lost :)
I'm not making a deep point; everything which is separate has a way of enforcing inside vs outside. Some are robust (fort knox). Others are temporary, diffuse and don't hang around (a fart). Some have instruction content to help enforce their boundaries (i.e. DNA, a computer program, or the army corps of engineers manual).

At the point where an object ceases to use pure physics and starts to use information to defend its boundary, the rejection of non-self is often acquired early on. (with obvious selection bias).

If you want to rule out any supernatural stuff, you model it as: the cereal box is part of a system that includes general mills, kids like you, and this grrrreat breakfast. Most of the information content of the system is at general mills (infectious) and the consumer (defense). Tony the tiger is a plot to play kids against adults and get those boxes into households. So is putting the boxes on the bottom shelf at supermarkets.

The even creepier view is that the cereal box has some independent existence and the box is gaming general mills to propagate its existence.

Before you object that the information content and reproductive machine of the box are external, consider a sperm cell or a seed pod. Neither of these has the full information of its system; neither is self-serving. Sexual reproduction also means that in normal practice (ignoring lizards and parthenogenesis), no individual has the full machinery of the species.

Note: I'm not ascribing intellect, intention or consciousness to any of these objects. Just drawing the boundaries of information in convenient places. It's not crazy to say that a cereal box exists as a separate thing. Once you say that, you have to consider whether it exists separately from general mills (it does, other companies use it).

Your process hangup, evolved vs coalesced vs designed, is an important distinction and may bias the sorts of forms that emerge. Evolved and designed end up being similar; both are shaking up information particles until something emerges that can propogate itself. Thomas Edison set out to design a light-bulb but he didn't set out to be born as thomas edison; the ball was rolling down the hill when he started. Not to take away from people's inventions, but if you compare across 100 alien worlds, maybe there are patterns about when the lightbulb is invented, and most worlds do it after certain other pieces are in place.

Another example is the eye: this is an evolutionary form that shows up when pigments and neurons are in the genome but something more is needed. A wire gets crossed and there is no turning back.
Sure, but that's why the example only says that the person installed the software.

Also, question: What if, unknowingly to this person, the OS had been modified to act as a BitTorrent client and seed copies of itself?
Is this easy to deploy in your own shared server such as GoDaddy and HostGator?
Heavily financed as in "inherited a shit-ton of money from his rich dad", or something else?
It's absurd to the point of being disingenuous that you ignore the mountains of systemic corruption and sweet heart laws and legal protections and lack of prosecutions these firms which pay politicians receive.
The only real solution is a search engine that allows the end user to clip the results based on the maximum size of the total page. I've often wondered why Duck Duck Go doesn't do this as well as filter search results based on number of ad networks used, etc...
Among other things, I guess those of us who don't know every piece of trivia about Spanish culture would get an explanation of what exactly is unsavory about this Blas de Lezo person.
I've worked with nodejs on Windows daily for years now and have very few issues. Almost all of those issues can be related to:

- Bad npm scripts in `package.json`; usually maintainers with a severe OS X slant who don't consider that setting environment variables requires some cross-platform love (getting better though thanks to an awareness of this in the community and packages handling it such as `cross-env` and `better-npm-run`)

- Modules that require being built via node-gyp require some combination of Python 2 and VS 2010. Once these are on your PATH there is no more friction.

- Path lengths are not an initial problem with npm 2 on install but will grow to be an annoyance later. The flat(-ter) module folders provided by npm 3 is welcome.
Ubuntu 16.04's new Snap format is a security risk
The article was very well written article and I can closely relate it with my situation. I also loved reading each one of the comments there and here on HN in a hope to find some solution which is working for him or her. But There are many people just like me who wish to find solution and don’t know what to do.
Finally, I took one step to form a slack community to win over our procrastination problem. You can get invite for your self at https://letswinnow.herokuapp.com/ .Being a shit procrastinator, I put in time to deploy it and did it before any other task. I hope, at least someone of you will join it and we’ll together try to help ourselves to fight with this. Hope to see you on Lets win now!
If you're developing you may not be aware of Page Speed Insights, extremely handy for SEO. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
The formal concept is regulatory capture:

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

Which is a result found in Public Choice analysis:

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

The SEC is specifically mentioned in the first article.

As I said elsewhere, what is surprising here is not that Goldman got a wrist slap, but that intelligent people expect some other result.
Indeed, no way to know. For me, that means we should act with caution and respect. The opposite stance seems very dangerous.
Did I say you said everything should have whimsical names? I asked if that is what you thought. Can't you tell the difference?

So what's your presumably non-childish objection to other things being given "whimsical" names?
This sort of thing fascinates me.

If the universe is a simulation, is this not to be understood as the processor clock speed?

(I've not read much of Nick Bostrom's work nor do I claim to know much about reasoning that the universe is in fact a computer simulation.)
Looks like they might be getting some democracy soon!
Well, yeah :P This is a strong argument for trying to prevent fatal accidents!
Yeah, and the design of the sight also doesn't exactly make me want to trust it either. Not that relying on design is a good security measure.
> Even on an LTE connection that's probably between 4 and 1.5 seconds to download the full page

So on the fastest mobile connection type available it's a magnitude or more to slow to feel fast, and that's a good state of things?
rollupjs.org as well as webpack2 are doing this. As you said, the dynamic nature will prevent this from being native. Using a build tool isn't terrible though.
Most of the population here aren't as in the media stereotyped depiction. Most of them just like ordinary people around the globe, workers, teachers, doctors, students, business owners, etc...

They just doomed by .. well, you know, I can't say.

Take me as an example. I'm a regular guy from there. All my concerns in life right now is to get high grade in my (scikit-learn/keras)-based CS graduation project.

Looking towards silicon valley and scientific institutes in the world to get inspired. Hoping to get more time to learn React and become pro in rails/DotNET and contribute something that worth to the OSS.
> The Saudi government doesn't want to fund extremism as such, it's just that their governance and control over these schools and other Islamic charities they fund is minimal and incompetent.

That's a very charitable view, especially for a monarchy that exerts tight control over many aspects of life in their country. That is not insisting on simplicity. Pakistan's government, and their security services, for example, are manifestly capable of working multiple conflicting agendas. But that doesn't mean they can be excused.

As others on this discussion have pointed out, Saudi has exported both terrorism and the fundamentalism that gives the terrorist fishes a much larger sea to swim in. The US, in part because if its own problems with religious fundamentalism, is unable to forthrightly work against religious fundamentalism and other excesses in religiosity, such as suppression of women's rights, in the Moslem world when that might be the most effective way to reduce terrorist incidents. Imagine trying to end the Soviet Empire without detente.

So, yes, that is a real mess.
I don't really agree with the article either, but for different reasons.

Voting is to democracy as is telescopes is to astronomy.

Democracy is about the people being in charge, of the government existing for the benefit of the people (as opposed to a dictator/absolute monarch/aristocracy) on the broadest possible stretches. It's about replacing the people in charge peacefully every few years. It's not about every decision being made at every level of government always being in line with what a majority might vote -- and it's emphatically not about online votes for silly things. It's an abomination to suggest such votes have anything to do with democracy (or, if you're so minded, an elaborate tactic for the power cabal to create the illusion of people being in power, but that theory is rather diminished by the power cabal not following the decision).

Democracy is worst form of government, except for all other others. It's not perfect, and it doesn't hold the seeds of perfection. It's at best a decent way of preventing a strong man and his cronies from grabbing too much power too fast -- it's not even a guarantee against that happening.

However, the unexpected strong performances of Trump and Sanders in the US primaries is for all its weirdness a symptom of the system working, however imperfectly: It's a huge vote of non-confidence in "the system" and the perception that it has been captured by some vaguely defined instance of not-the-people (Sanders: Wall Street; Trump: Who the hell knows? Mexicans?) and that (however crudely) something should be done about it.
EDIT: This piece of code wasn't used and has since been removed. This app has my stamp of approval now!

From the github:

"f.action = 'http://gtmetrix.com/analyze.html?bm';"

... are you tracking people with this application?
Just wanted to add that at my workplace we regularly set up extra drive mounts just to get around the long path issue and it works fine. For instance we map G:\very\long\file\strucutre\ to X:
Visual Studio is an extra source of issue since it packages its own version of nodejs and with it npm. You can configure Visual Studio to use your global nodejs, however. I have mine setup this way, and Visual Studio uses my global nodejs 5 and npm 3.
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I wonder, is this good or bad for other startups in the diagnostics space?
And join the fate of Titanic^WItanium?
Female Hackers Still Face Harassment at Conferences
Louis CK has some insight on kids asking "Why?" http://youtu.be/BJlV49RDlLE
Of course, since it's not news that the Saudi government is willing to fund terrorist groups involved in overseas conflicts, the bigger question which the paper doesn't consider is whether it would have been in the Saudi Arabian government's interest to sponsor the September 11th actions.

I think the answer to this is probably no: it massively boosted the prestige of al-Qaeda - a group which is anti House of Saud first and anti US/Israel second - over Sunni terrorist organisations more closely aligned with Saudi interests and the only part of US foreign policy response that was entirely predictable was the invasion of Afghanistan, well outside Saudi Arabia's area of interest.

To be honest, if you're not already aware of it, the most interesting connection to a national government agency mentioned in the paper is probably two of the hijackers living with an FBI informant...
We're a .NET shop that has started using node for new projects, and it's been a happy path so far. Native modules have only rarely been an issue, only when they require a specific version of Visual Studio, of course different than the one we use. All our build tools are available under Windows.
Stability is not a problem either. Test and prod environments are linux boxes, but I have never seen a bug that appeared only on one OS, so cross-compatibility is not an issue.
And there are plenty of text editors and related software you might need to choose from, so I don't think you'll miss anything critical.
If you're talking about the multicolored star emoji, it has this class applied to it: .page-header--upvote-streak

So something with upvotes?