skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ending mainstream support is Microsoft's way of saying: from now on you'll only get security fixes and no new features. Windows 7 support hasn't been dropped in any other way.
Two previous discussions, the first of which links to an article that debunks the claim:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669996

Plus, several other postings.
"70 cm is smaller than regular tide heights, smaller than wave heights, it's just not very significant for most coastal cities"

You understand of course, that now the tides and the waves will be a meter higher. As will storm surges from future storms.

You also understand, of course, that part of the alarm is because that the more data that's collected and the more mature the models get, the faster and steeper the see level rise projections get (DeConto & Pollard, 3/2016, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7596/full/nature1...).

Another part of the alarm is the extent that the 2016 climate data thus far is worse than models predicted.
Salesforce instance NA14 has been down for more than 12 hours now
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I can think of a few politicians in history with whom there is no reason that excuses supporting them - for me, Trump is on that list.
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Free? Every WhatsApp user paid Facebook on day one with the contents of their address book and how frequently one person contacts another. This is of huge value if your business model is exactly to gather this kind of data.
10 or even 20% performance is not a feature. But when tools or features get a few times faster or more then their usage model changes - which means they become different features.
My mind isn't made up, because there is not enough evidence to generate a conclusion.

Which is why I have a problem with anyone who does come to a conclusion, because they do not have enough evidence either.

Observational evidence says temperature is going up, it's gone up in the past, and it will go up again in the future. Sea level has gone up in the past too. Guess how a shark tooth winds up buried in Montana?

What will decide my stance is good, solid, open, scientific results, based on sound input, conducted by a neutral party, with sufficient data to draw conclusions, and done in a manner that any interested party can reproduce the results from their own, independently collected data. If only one dataset is available, then the data collection itself must be open and scrutinized. There's too much 'religion' surrounding the issue to trust anyone not to manipulate anything(not necessarily intentionally).
Watch his documentary "Hold Fast" to get a glimpse of just how unique and interesting a character he is. Anarchists yachting? Yes, more, please
DCTC toy channel, taking your middle of the road estimate = $6 million / yr.....unbelievable.
Freshdesk enters Gartner Magic quadrant for customer engagement
Oh the irony of an article about encryption on a site sans encryption.
> in both cases, the companies acted in self interest. Neither had the guts to walk away from their existing revenue stream.

Why does bitmover have the guts now?
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Chrome? I thought all browsers had it, my Symbian device did iirc as well as Firefox for Android.
How would you establish causation?
Arguably not. But even with this use case, the Web has got significantly more complex. Local Storage, local databases, GPS access, gesture detection to name a few. That all hits Web performance hard especially on earlier mobile devices.
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Typo, should have been "boss". Didn't see it while the edit window was open.
Yup. Meanwhile I'll be using this https://telegram.org
> Not for everyone, their crypto is GPL only and GPL can't be deployed everywhere.

GPL code can be used anywhere; GPL code cannot be made proprietary.
Do you know any examples heavy with animations? E.g. similar that can be achieved with CSSTransitionGroup in React. While I can't use Elm in production app, I could dabble on it side projects, but I'm a little bit put off by the examples it has, they seem to not contain complicated appear/leave animations or animation managers. I think it's not yet solved?
The "End of Advertising" on the web is something I hear fairly often, and the argument that paying for content is the only solution follows soon after. Unfortunately, both history and all of our data suggests otherwise.

For example, the mobile app ecosystem (the only large scale experiment we've run in online media since the web) started with a pay-for-use business model in the form of paid apps. While this worked for a while, it quickly gave way to free apps supported by advertising or other business models. Today, unless you are a game, it is almost impossible to build a business using pay-for-use exclusively. Reversing to a free model was forced by the low cost of entry into the market and resulting commoditization of mobile apps. You can't charge for something if a dozen other people will offer it for free.

I'm not a huge supporter of online ads and I do think the industry needs to improve. However, we continue to see that it is the only stable economic model for online media considering the volume and diversity the model needs to cover. Until someone shows something else working at scale, let's not throw away the only thing that is working.
"The lowest ranked mice, in contrast, didn’t seem to mind being alone. Perhaps they enjoyed isolation, being free of their harassers."

Or perhaps the loners don't desire to be strongly tied to the group, let alone dominant leaders of the group.
> Turing completeness dictates that any Turing complete language is equivalent to any other Turing complete language.

Sorry to pick on you, but this is a good example of misuse of this fact in an argument where it's not really relevant. Turing-completeness only relates to functions that take some string as input as produce a string as output (since that's all the turing machine model can do). In contrast, real-world programming languages interact with a machine or operating system, and not all languages provide the same interfaces or even run on the same machines.

I can easily implement a Turing-complete language whose only allowed system calls are reading from stdin and writing to stdout. Despite being Turing-complete, it will never be able to spawn threads, connect to a network socket, or even allocate memory on the heap.
> Thank you for contributing to the development and evangalizing of DVCS, directly (BK) and indirectly (the ideas and inspiration for git, hg).

I concur.
My experience of WhatsApp Web has been that the images do not auto-load (Chrome on Windows 10 and Windows 7). A heavily compressed thumbnail is loaded and I have to manually click each image that I want to view.

I haven't analysed any traffic and I'm not a developer but my layman's guess would be that the WhatsApp mobile app has a pre-prepared Zip file (or some other compressed container) with the 20 most recent messages from each chat plus these compressed image thumbnails and the Web Client pulls that data from the phone upon initialising. I doubt it is a big data transfer.
Part of the reason for the rant against the walled garden is that it threatens a developers ability to innovate without being threatened/limited/taxed/replaced by the gatekeeper.

Whether that's better for consumers is debatable (plethora of choice isn't necessary a good thing), but devs definitely give up a lot of power and leverage to the landlord.
What kind of clients do you pitch to?

Is your manager/main contact typically a business boss or technical?

Lastly, how much do you charge?

That sounds interesting because in my experience people don't pay unless they are forced to (some system does it for them, or they need something more from you so forced to pay for the previous work to get that done, etc.)
> my choice to ride a bike to work rather than drive comes at an energy savings not cost

Presumably your time is worth money. There's your cost. Not that a car is costless, of course!
> believe global warming is human caused

Why am I expected to believe something when you don't include a link to actual data?

The reason most intelligent, scientific people that I talk to are skeptical is that scientists have done such a bad job of communicating the data/evidence. It's not up to the person in the street to prove anything or believe anything without data.
> On one hand, you have the overwhelming majority (97-74%) of professional scientist saying (respectively) that global warming is occuring or that it's man-made and provable with existing science.

To me there's a big difference between acknowledging that it's occurring and saying it is primarily caused by man. We know we've gone through these cycles in the past.

Actually, assuming your quote is correct, I find it a bit offensive that the "or" is typically presented as "and" in the mainstream narrative.
LOL - me too! I thought someone had built a flyable Mig-31 Firefox and were looking for someone to fly it... http://archive.is/ZqD9a
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So I have the ability to arbitrarily change the bias on every flip, and you don't think debiasing is affected?

How about this: for the next string of generated bits, for every even bit the bias is 90% towards 1, and every odd bit the bias is 90% towards 0.

raw: 0101010101010111010101010001010101010101

'debiased': 1111111111111111
They are close enough that people have produced tools like elm-servant that generates Elm code from Servant code.

https://github.com/mattjbray/servant-elm
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>overwhelming majority (97-74%) of professional scientist saying

I've never understood this argument. What does agreement of other scientists from unrelated fields have to do with the soundness of a scientific theory? It's a thinly-veiled appeal to authority that I think really weakens non-scientific peoples' perceptions about how science works.

>Since... just about nobody here is a professional climate researcher

And neither are the majority of professional scientists that agree. Every scientist I've worked with (computational physics) doesn't know anything about climate science and (probably rightly) assumes that the people in the field know what they are doing so they agree because they trust the process. However, the approval of scientists in unrelated fields is about a relevant as the approval of a politician. So just stick with facts about the research itself.

Additionally, there have been many times where "the overwhelming majority of scientists" have believed something that is incorrect. The thing that makes science special is that it is not a democracy. Theories are validated on their logic and evidence, not on whether or not they please a particular community of people.

tl;dr. Stop bringing up how many people agree with something. It's not scientifically relevant.
Homeostasis could be achieved by a balance of waver vapor and cloud cover which are both strong factors on temperature but acting in the opposite directions.

"Thus the possible positive and negative feedbacks associated with increased water vapor and cloud formation can cancel one another out and complicate matters. The actual balance between them is an active area of climate science research."

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatescie...
Encouraging innovation for the Crossrail / Elizabeth line project
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Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was saying that since they are real scientists, they are not abject idiots and running a linear regression on atmospheric CO2 vs mean global surface temperature.

I can't tell you what to think or what models to select, but the rapid and sustained increase in temperatures over the past 30 years would suggest something is up, so I would at least focus on models that would have retroactively explained that rise.
I'm not 100% informed on the details but when I moved to Austria, I joined the Alpenverein. I understand that part of the yearly membership dues go for providing some sort of rescue insurance. Seems like a good arrangement to me.
Yes we do. Fortunately using pesticides and herbicides isn't very usual in our nearby neighbourhood. But that is just anecdotal. We have had a very strong support for keeping our bees and been surprised how engaged people are. Stopping by, asking questions, asking when they can buy more honey etc.
Oh that explains it...
I've been drifting to lobste.rs a lot more lately anyway.. too bad I don't have an invite =(
Some were recently created in the South China sea though

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/wha...
This distinction between branches and bookmarks looks like one of the things missing the most from git. Grab a random branch from some place and try to guess whether the committer intends to rewrite it in the future or not: good luck.

For the rest: https://stevebennett.me/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-gi...
So what about all this contradicts "branching in hg is pretty much broken"?
I'm clearly not pcwalton@ but my thoughts would be: It would be a cool experiment to verify the Mio interface.

i.e. If an entirely isolated re-implementation of async-io in Rust can benefit from or easily standardize to a common interface, that gives the interface far more validity as a good/simple/generic interface.
I feel bad for Rylan (not the one who stole), and the backers.

For me Kickstarter, and its peers, have become a wellspring of lessons in what NOT to do when starting a business.
Is it a marketplace?
This is an enjoyable comment section (rare to say). The arguments about the pronunciation of the char keyword is all part of being C programmers. This is great. :-)
I'd say I fall into this camp a bit, I agree with your leading points and have a similar suspicious feeling about how the whole thing is marketed.
Some reasons why my own estimates are off:

1. Requirements change frequently while the code is being developed. (If we had detailed specs, we'd be constantly re-writing them.)

2. People ask for estimates before I've had enough time to completely understand the complexity of the problem.

3. Higher-priority projects intervene, and when I go back to the original project (sometimes months later), additional time is needed to figure out what I was doing when I was interrupted.

Fortunately, my management understands that estimates are always going to slip in this kind of chaotic development environment. If we absolutely need to hit a release deadline, we usually start pushing less-critical features/fixes off to the next release. (I work on enterprise software that's sold to large companies, which has release cycles measured in months.)
It's a problem that's been recognised for some time. In fact the United Nations had the third conference on this back in 2014. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/sustainable/focus...
> What will decide my stance is good, solid, open, scientific results, based on sound input, conducted by a neutral party, with sufficient data to draw conclusions, and done in a manner that any interested party can reproduce the results from their own, independently collected data. If only one dataset is available, then the data collection itself must be open and scrutinized.

Ans since when those points are not met?

What is a neutral party for you?

Why do you thinkg that data is not open and cannot be scrutinized

> There's too much 'religion' surrounding the issue to trust anyone not to manipulate anything(not necessarily intentionally).

Any example of this manipulation?
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Did you actually read and understand his comment?

> I don't run any.

You don't have to. The existence of extensions creates constraints on how they evolve the browser's internals.
Are figure 4 vertex labels wrong?
WUWT as a source?
I used whatsapp for about an year on Bluestacks desktop app where whatsapp (without once asking for an otp confirmation apart from when I registered to start with) worked smoothly. Also my phone was never connected to internet but I had it active on a cheap phone. So in case you need seniors to come online via their desktop buy a cheapest possible phone and install bluestacks or any similar app on desktop.
What if the stars were a version of GPS? You could find your way around from city to city. Ships did it, why not pedestrians?
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I used to think that. Then my parents found Facebook and started using it. Their friends send them interesting content, which comes to their inbox where they consume it. Then, they do the natural thing and forward it to me if they think I'll find it interesting. Now, I have hundreds, if not thousands, of emails in my inbox with links that, if I click them, require me to login as my parents if I want to see the content.

The fact that Facebook doesn't send pure hyperlinks but, instead, links that funnel through Facebook to be authenticated and tracked, is extremely annoying and dangerous to a free and open web.
I was also confused by it. However I read the last sentence as the author making a meta-point by using purposefully incorrect grammar, a sort of reversal of the first sentence about c++ code compiling but leading to segfault--like an artistic statement. If it was an accident, then all the better!
Not for people who don't want Google on their device.

He only wants distribution via Google, and even went as far to demand that free/libre Play-alternative F-droid removed their build of TextSecure.

See: https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/
I was a bit disappointed. From the headline I thought it was an argument about why the ad-fueled internet is economically unstastainable. Instead Brin is mainly repeating the "moral" case against it while making some (reasonable) suggestions about why micropayments are not so impossible after all.

The later point might be right, but only likely to be tested if there is an advertising bust. At least Brin links to this (http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm).
WhatsApp and TOTP apps can already replace SMS for verification. The only problem is 2FA providers are still choosing to use SMS.
Found the technical writeup http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-coremob/2012Sep/0...

Two main issues back then were scrolling perrformance and memory constraints.

We're working at image heavy microsites at lookcast and I can confirm memory issues and composition performances are still constraining what we can do on devices.
Is there a name for this sunspot based model so I could read on it a bit without watching a youtube video?
Komorebi is called God's Ray in video game sphere.
Has this other model been proven incorrect?
Suggestion: Add a switch to show C/C++ code lines next to the created assembly. This is very helpful for learning.

In gdb you can get this with disassemble /m, or with objdump -S.

Helped me a lot in the past.
There are experiments with using Elm on the server via Node.

Since you mentioned NoRedInk, they had a sample project that bundled several available technologies:
https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home

It is worth noting that with the advent of 0.17, Elm on server is getting closer to reality. The issue now is for Evan to properly understand what the best approach is. My hope is that we will end up with something like Servant in Elm.

In a lot of things Elm is not aiming at WOM but WOFO. In other words, not for libraries that gets most word of mouth but libraries that get word of f-ing obvious. That requires a more deliberate and slower process but the payout is huge.
Bees will attract pests, so you have to deal with it. The key threats here are: mice (restrict access during winter), birds (some people use netting during winter), bears (not where we are), hornets, ants (restrict access), but the most important pest is the varroa mite. There are several effective of none-pesticide methods, here are some: http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Treating_varroa_mites_organ...
You can't charge for something if a dozen other people will offer it for free.

If that's true, and at the same time people dislike adverts enough that a significant proportion will refuse to interact with them or even block them, then the market won't generate enough money to pay for the production of those apps. In the short term people will pay to make those apps by subsidising them with investment money (and lose it all if they don't make any money back), but in the long term we simply won't have people making the apps.

At that point the market will be underserved, customers who have a demand for the product will start to pay, and the pay-for business model starts working, driven by revenue rather than DAUs and ad impressions.

There's no reason to believe the end for advertising means the end of media. There is a demand for the products, and suppliers will continue to provide such products. What's needed is a working business model that both sides of the market are happy with. That doesn't appear to be advertising-lead.
Have you asked yourself the corresponding question?

I think humans influence the climate by using energy and land at least, and one effect of this influence may be net warming. I have no compelling reason to believe that humans cause net warming, or that they cause net cooling. As a member of Popper's school of science philosophy and considering the complexity involved, I'm not sure what evidence could reasonably confirm the AGW hypothesis, especially since we don't have a "control planet" to work with.

Also the politics around this stuff has been the bigger issue for a long time, and either way I do not agree that stopping global warming should take priority over other human concerns.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668069
Does it matter? I'd like to see some solutions to the "problem" that amount to more than putting lipstick on a pig, and project to be more effective at fixing the issue than that method of porcine beautification.

People have been forecasting various millenarian crises for millenia. It seems to be what we're good at... Nowadays, we're beyond thinking that the moon demon is going to eat the sun god, or that the four horsemen of the apocalypse will sweep down and bring disease, war, famine and death, Malthusian over-population will have us eating our children, the Y2K bug will result in chaos and rioting, Peak Oil will have us wearing ass-less chaps, hockey masks, and killing each other Mad Max style, nuclear Armageddon will give rise to a race of atomic spiders, and now anthropocentric global warming will... something something, rising sea levels. All of these scares came and went.
I'll bet a lot of folks would keep paying those prices even if all they did was use email. I'll bet further that is still the main reason many people have a home internet connection. That and internet banking, etc.

Things subsidized by ads like YouTube and myriad other distractions are a bonus. If they were to disappear no one would be dropping their internet connection. Trust me, with bandwdth as it is, free video is not going to disappear.

All things considered I think non-commercial websites like Wikipedia or Internet Archive are actually the most valuable ones. And even without ads they will not disappear because passionate dedicated people create them for non-commercial reasons. And the cost for the individual to store data and publish online keeps decreasing.

The internet has heaps of inherent value that has nothing to do with advertising. Especially with today's computing power and bandwidth. It's like long distance calling anywhere in the world for a set monthly fee. And anyone can write software to send and receive over the network. Sign me up. For life.

Anyone who used the internet in the late 80's early 90's before commercial activity was permitted, when bandwidth was limited and expensive, knows this.

By all means argue for ads if it's your cash cow - try you best to save your golden goose, but spare us the absurd arguments that ads are what give the internet value.