skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good example of FOUT: http://recordit.co/vsAZQc5ihD
I've lost over 100 hours to Crashlands. The mobile app is only $5 with no iAP (and syncs with the PC/Steam save, though that's another $15) and is a very fun, complete game full of humor that's hard to describe. Adventure, action, crafting (with infinite auto-organizing inventory), secrets, and did I mention the humor? Between this, Punch Club, and You Must Build A Boat I've come close to swearing off non-premium gaming on iOS.

As a side note, I actually did throw my phone because of a F2P game. Expensive bad decision.
What I don't get is why they don't have the call center in Concord instead of SF. Office space is cheaper, and there is plenty of labor available out there.
At first glance, that document states that Chrome (and the other browsers) have a 3 second timeout before showing the fallback font.

For me, I'm seeing a fallback in less than 100ms before flickering to my web font. So the timeout doesn't seem to be working right now maybe?
Zuck still is running the company. This change means that he can keep doing that while also donating 99% of his stock to charity.
Yeah, I'm not really willing to put up with monthly costs for this, but thanks for recommendation
The unintuitiveness of how many combinations you can get from such a small amount of items is why the birthday "paradox" is so interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
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How to make developers perceive value in a product?
As a rule of thumb, it looks like 59! is about the number of atoms in the universe.

59! =~ 1.38 × 10^80
Azure dumped its internal caching product in 2014 and switched to Redis.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/lap-around-azure-redi...
Include Go binary only package
He won't. It's well documented that he was very miserable during his last few years at MS.
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> You can implement this in Lisp. The dispatch will be at runtime, not compile time.

That would be fine with me, but...

> I don't think CLOS supports this use case, but the rest of Lisp certainly does.

How exactly? Manually branching on the type of an object is ugly and non-extensible, and thus the antithesis of good modular design. Or are you proposing creating a whole new object system, in parallel to CLOS, but which supports this one additional feature? My copy of AMOP suggests that the design of CLOS is intended to avoid this kind of scenario:

“The metaobject protocol approach (...) is based on the idea that one can and should "open languages up," allowing users to adjust the design and implementation to suit their particular needs.” (p. 1)

“Rather than supplying the user with a fixed, single point in the space of all language designs and implementations, we would instead support a region of possible designs within that overall space. (...) Users are free to move to whatever point in that region best matches their particular requirements.” (p. 5-6)
Chrome 50 also introduced some overly eager GC bugs [1] and throws weird new WebGL warnings [2].

Basically all our WebGL projects are affected and clients already started to complain that textures aren't showing or that preloaders are stuck. Hopefully the fixed release gets shipped soon.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=604844
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36876232/three-js-there-i...
Under-invest? You mean not invest at all? While I get that Russia had rockets that were perfectly functional, they appear to have made no efforts at all in developing a more efficient in-house replacement.
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He owns 18% of the company.
Interesting. Love to see actual analysis of this.
Credit card payment is a '2 phase' process. The second phase you are referring to as settlement - moving funds from the issuing bank to merchant's bank does take days.

The first phase of the process - authorization, when successful not only makes sure the customer has enough credit on their account, it also reduces their buying power by the grand total of the auth thus guaranteeing the funds to the merchant. And it takes 2-4 seconds.
Most people would not credit Dilma with "passing high school exams level" understanding of economics.

But Ms Rousseff and her left-wing Workers’ Party (PT) have made a bad situation much worse. During her first term, in 2011-14, she spent extravagantly and unwisely on higher pensions and unproductive tax breaks for favoured industries. The fiscal deficit swelled from 2% of GDP in 2010 to 10% in 2015.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21684779-disaster-loom...
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That's like 99% of legal terms.
You are using loadCSS to load the font from google fonts. loadCSS is designed to asynchronously load a stylesheet. Given an asynchronous load of the font, I'm not surprised you're seeing occasional FOUT. You should adopt the recommended <link> tag technique for your webfonts, unless you're willing to follow the more advanced font performance / FOUT guidance from Zach Leatherman.
Access to abortions is just as important as access to contraceptives.
I thought Zuck's life clock was supposed to start flashing when he turned thirty and he was going to have to go on a Logan's Run, being much to old to run a company any more.
So the last guy to own a share owns the company?
At the time ULA was formed it wasn't an error. The US had a serious problem with rocket reliability and lost more than a few very expensive satellites. The devlopment or reliable and on demand access to space was a matter of national security.
I just switched from using a blocking link tag to loadCSS today which indeed loads it asynchronously. I'd say 1/5 times I am not seeing FOUT.

However I'm not seeing FOUT on Safari for Mac and iOS and Firefox for Mac at the moment.

*edit: I definitely understand that you're right Paul. If the website loads slow, FOUT is expected. However, I'm seeing it more than what I expected to with loadCSS combined with this bug report I found. So I'm kind of leaning toward the idea that it is a bug in Chrome 50. If not, I'm wrong and it's only my loadCSS causing it.
I always wondered what the effect would be if all stock trade transactions has a minimum 24h ownership requirement. You MUST hold a stock/option/hedge for at least 24h before trading it off. I picked the 24h period rather arbitrarily.

Would anyone who actually knows anything about this care to enlighten me ?
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Central planning clearly works fairly well internally for millions of corporations around the world (see: Theory of the firm, http://www.economist.com/node/17730360). It will never be so simple as "privatize everything for best results".

I wish the discussion here would elevate beyond this libertarian propaganda level.
Papers that meant to be free are now pirated. Nice paradigm shift.
Senators play terror card to lobby public for backdoor crypto legislation
Well, that's certainly a feature that serves to expand the usage of the Go language, but I'm not so certain I like the spirit of it. Until now, sharing Go functionality meant sharing the source. And I like the idea that you pretty much have to open up your full source if you want people to use your work.

Maybe it's just fanciful and impractical, but I'd sort of hoped this would be the kind of decision that Go could take a stand against, in favor of incentivizing openness.
I believe you misread the text you're replying to. The bijection is between the points in the 2d space and the points in the line segment. Both of these are uncountably infinite.
Or maybe, just maybe, companies find it cheaper to hire new employees due to the number of people who permanently couldn't find jobs, than to invest in increasing productivity. The past 8 years of overestimating economic growth by central banks have clearly shown hope is not sufficient to boost the economy on its own. Central bank balance sheet have exploded, exploding price of assets, making in unattractive for businesses to invest. They would rather perform stock buybacks from borrowing money, send it to investors to be consumed. In terms of real physical capital (as opposed to financial), the American economy is actively divesting. Any supposed GDP growth from the current monetary policy is due to capital being actively consumed, increasing spending temporarily. The data showing lack of productivity growth supports this pessimistic scenario. Central banks will do well to hike interest rates, collapse the markets, destroying the zombie and hangers on companies, so their physical assets go on firesales, releasing physical capital at massively deflated prices, for well run and well managed companies to gobble up. Only this will rejuvenate the American economy and return its status as the world's economic growth powerhouse.

Remember, the current Silicon Valley boom started in the mid-2000's due to the collapse of costs of IT, with the advent of cheap Internet and cloud computing, not because of low interest rates. The cost of building capital got so low from 1999 people were doing it in their parents basements eating ramen.
Oh I'm sorry, I forgot that provider API's are magical, mythical beasts that must be tamed from an intermediary server, never from a client.

It's OK to say "we don't think enough people will pay enough for a one-time purchase to cover development costs". You don't have to invent some kind of technical reason for it to be a service.

But having said that, I cannot believe that companies would pay the amount you're asking for a service either.
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Pointing out the obvious, this means that nobody is allowed to build a product that locks away data to where it cannot be accessed by the product's maker. And looking at it inside out, that means nobody has the right to absolute data privacy
Please critisize our web based desktop
Yes, free markets win. But broad prosperity is unstable, and tends toward inequity. And inequity leads to instability via populism. So prudent free markets include safety nets. That's not working so well in the US, in recent decades.
> “Graduate students who want to access an article from the Elsevier system should work with their department chair, professor of the class, or their faculty thesis adviser for assistance.”

Now THAT is chuckle worthy.
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I don't find this tragic, or suicide. Tragedy requires some kind of eventual catharsis or recovery. Suicide is intentionally causing your own death.

This is neither. This is the slow rot that comes from not being able to take care of yourself, like a mentally disabled person, except it's an entire nation. They can't fix it and they can't stop it. And there's no recovery to be had.

What lessons can we learn from the leadership of the country over the past 18 years?

One, maybe don't trust someone who tries to take over the government by force, rather than by popular decree. Two, maybe don't have unlimited presidential terms or rule-by-decree. Three, maybe don't try to force economic, industrial or social change. Fourth, maybe don't let your country's leadership be best friends with countries that have terrible human rights violation records, and especially if they kick Human Rights Watch out of the country and are constantly criticized by other organizations. Fifth, maybe it's time to revert controversial social and economic policies if your country actually stops producing crime data (and it's not because the crime rate is so low). And sixth, though this is controversial, it would be nice to have a national constitution that puts safeguards in place that will root out institutional corruption by the coordination of an organization which isn't appointed by an executive.

I don't know much about politics, though, so take that with a grain of salt.
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Perhaps these were departments focused on areas that are no longer of competive interest.
Perhaps the next big change could be in transportation and infrastructure. If someone could reasonably commute to Boston from NYC (or vice versa) via a 250mph bullet train, wouldn't that increase productivity?
It's included in SpaceX's/ULA's/whoever's bid?

Insurance doesn't reduce the costs of (whatever event you're insuring), it just evens them out. Instead of paying for (e.g.) 1 failure every 25 launches, you pay for 0.04 failures on every launch (plus the insurance company's profit).

So the payloads' costs still apply.
Sharing source code and binary-only packages are not mutually exclusive.
I've heard it said that central planning in the Soviet Union would have worked with modern communication and information management systems. But on the other hand, planning for one corporation is far simpler than planning for an entire economy.
Physics is sufficiently weird that I can't tell if this is just spitballing or an actual theory I haven't heard of before.

Edit: holy crap, these people think nucleons are made of muons that are made of electrons and positrons: http://wlsprojects.com/structure-inside-proton.html . Solves the matter vs antimatter problem, I guess.
Can you connect it to a phone with a micro-B USB adapter, and then use it to run pre-trained networks with your phone's camera like I imagine it is used in thd DJI Phantom 4? I know the USB to the camera and onboard CPU will not be the same as the DJI's bus, but it would make for an interesting mobile testing platform for me to learn on.
Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. Every country on your list is also heavily socialist, taking roughly a third to over a half of citizens' incomes to fund social programs. These black and white distinctions are absurd, and insulting to everyone's intelligence.
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> “I’m all for universal access, but not theft!” tweeted Elsevier’s director of universal access, Alicia Wise

You want everybody to have access, but you don't want them to get it for free.

Wow, so you want the entire world to all pay for the material you were given for free. Hmmmm.
You're thinking in binary of countries as either socialist or not socialist. In reality, socialism is a spectrum, and not exclusive of capitalism. It is also a system used to different degrees in different sectors. Canada, for example, is extremely socialist in some respects, such as healthcare. The UK's welfare state has raised and buried multi-generational families whose members have never had a job in their lives, yet the country's finance sector is the most influential in the world and, quite probably, more libertarian than it really ought to be.

Even today, with the affordable healthcare act, the U.S. is one of the least socialist countries in the world, but it's never been completely free of socialism, even in the "better dead than red" era. Take public infrastructure such as power generation as an example. Some sectors are so big and require careful planning decades in advance, and doing things the socialist way (i.e. Taking short-term market interests out of the equation) is often the best way. If we left scientific research entirely to the free market, where would the funding be for curiosity driven, long-term, core science that is typically decades from producing anything remotely commercializable? How would corporations justify the research that led to lasers or carbon nanotubes to a corporate board only interested in the bottom line for the next quarter?

Socialist policies make sense in certain areas. Americans are unusual in having turned "socialism" into a dirty word, and most have turned a blind eye to the many benefits it brings them.
Here's the browser view of this brief interaction: http://i.imgur.com/IWFEKGt.png [0]

Basically, the stylesheet finished transferring and the browser followed up with laying out the page. Some data:uri requests were in flight and when they finished (200ms later) the page was laid out again and now applied the fonts.
Typekit has historically detect in JavaScript when a font loads because they like to ensure the text stays invisible (across browsers) while the page hasn't finished loading the fonts. But in this case, it looks like there's a problem with either Typekit not finding the load "events"[1] of these fonts, or Chrome mishandling data uri fonts in some way. We've filed https://crbug.com/607788 to investigate further.

Loading fonts well is hard. Here's some advice on doing it well: https://gist.github.com/paulirish/d511793a1c3b74b31460

[0] You can explore the same recording here: https://frontend.chrome-dev.tools/serve_rev/@db7757b63f29696... (Chrome only. Check the screenshots checkbox)

[1] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-font-loading/ was standardized for these purposes. It's available in Chrome, Opera and Firefox to reliably detect when a font has finished loading.

[‽] As mentioned later by hatsix, the font-display spec introduces a CSS property to provide control over FOUT/FOIT to the site: https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-font-display/ It will definitely bring a lot of sanity to a something that's been a problem since at least 2009 :) http://www.paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/
Possible that increased productivity means increase in knowledge required for the job. But people are unable to keep up with those increasing knowledge requirements.

I see this on my team a lot. We are pushing hard to spread newer and more efficient programming and data analysis techniques, but people remain stuck and unwilling or unable to learn.
Imagine wasting some researcher's valuable time on tracking papers for you!

The gall of these publishing companies never ceases to amaze.
Lots of new jobs, but lots of them are part time, and lots of those are "flexible schedules." So there's a lot of churn, both within the day as part timers come in and out, and within the week as they get scheduled and cut. After a certain amount of productivity, you need motivated people to get more, and where's the motivation, besides fear of losing a job, in that world.

And then there's the further churn from people who have more than one flexible schedule job, and the inevitable day when they're scheduled for both jobs. So they lose one job, and the employer eventually replaces them. Training and churn.

If more people had full time jobs with realistic chance of advancement, and therefore identity with the employer, I think productivity would increase nicely.
Wonder if this is the end of Dreamworks Animation on Netflix.
If and when the central bank finally sends the interest rates up the stratosphere, real estate and equipment prices will collapse to a fraction of its current value, which will make infrastructure like you mentioned possible.
I'm not the writer, but I think there may be some people on HN who'd like to voice their opinion on this.
While people live under one government, there are millions of corporations. For every successful corporation, many more have gone out of business. Many of the successful ones today will be dead within a decade. When a corporation's governance structure doesn't work, it dies and frees up resources for other endeavors.

Central planning has worked well for exactly zero countries around the world.
Thanks for the source. I was just using Mathematica and seeing the 'Wolfram' in the Indonesian text just popped for me. Having a Wolf as a PL mascot for Wolfram Language is pretty cool too!
I realize that many projects haven't made the switch, and in some cases they have good reasons to be cautious. And I realize that many programmers aren't familiar with the various changes, even after five (or more) years to catch up.

But that doesn't change the age of the standard, or the fact that C++14 was published, and the Committee is finishing up C++17. At some point it's silly to call C++11 "new." "Unfamiliar," sure, but not "new." It reminds me of Larry Wall's talk ( http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html ) "Do you know when New College was founded. Any guesses? New College was new in 1379."
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read.

If you're doing all those things on your vacation it's not a vacation.
They're able to take those lessons and apply them to the new reddit app though.
They are talking about huge declines over the last 10 years. Declines that are much larger than the change in childhood obesity over the last 10 years.
Seems to be affecting google fonts too
If and when the central bank finally sends the interest rates up the stratosphere

Why do you think they will?
That's one way to keep his never-ending stream of low cost H1Bs....
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Louisiana's oil industry can't fall into the same bucket as the others. Tourism and seafood/agriculture have been larger than petroleum for the past 35+ years. Most of Louisiana's oil is offshore which means the state government gets bupkis.
Better FOUT than FOIT. When I have to look at large areas of whitespace while the page loads, I get irritated. Just let me read the text, you stupid website! :P
I was at a conference with a number representatives from various publishers. During a discussion about access control I was basically told that publishers want to enforce specific spatio-temporal constraints on who can view (as in read with human eyeballs) their content based on whether a library or individual paid for it. They make the other content industries look positively benign.
> isn't it crazy that manufacturing a single F-35 costs more than an entire satellite launch including support services?

Not IMHO: The launch is a single, controlled, predictable task; they can choose their exact launch time and location for optimal performance; have extensive quality control checks and engineering, a room full of support engineers, etc; the exact route and timing of the launch is carefully planned ahead of time, etc.

The plane has to handle every contingency of war: Take off from wherever and whenever needed, fly anywhere, refuel in mid-air, dodge enemies trying to kill it (can SpaceX or ULA do that?), destroy enemies trying to avoid it, return safely home, etc.
They need a business interest beyond coding. The right person asks, Who buys the product and why? What is the running cost and where are the expensive transaction fees. They need to care about money to understand value. Some developers just enjoy coding and being an employee.
No rush here. I would like to be able to play with the code and Rust. Thanks!
It's just so funny how blatantly parasitic some of these publishing companies are.
Of course they're not. I just had hoped that this would be something that the Go team/community would purposefully decide not to support, as they've tended to lean toward open solutions and processes like most modern projects.

The whole rationale given in the proposal [1] is that some users have worked with vendors who do not want to share their source code, since they've purchased some sort of library product. In my opinion, that's likely more harmful than beneficial for software as a whole.

[1] https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/2775-b...
Huh. I thought it was first through sixth grade; I wouldn't have included kindergarten.
Also, real wages are declining. After a point, working harder to make the c suite and Wall Street richer begins to seem pointless.
The article was talking about drastic declines in the last 10 years. Childhood obesity rates have been stable for the last 10 years (childhood obesity rates include teenagers).
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Must be a correllation with smartphones proliferation in the same strata, and increased accessibility of pornsites.
Don't they require each tenant to be able to afford the apartment in case the other disappears?
He created WinPcap, not Wireshark.
If you can't verify that Google are actually anonymizing the data then you can't claim this is "completely harmless". I don't trust Google and this requires me to. Is that unreasonable to you?