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> I feel like JS is an expected part of the web just like HTML and CSS. How can you build engaging web applications if you are not even allowed to rely on standards like JS (e.g. if the user turns off JS)?

The web is not about 'engaging web applications'; the web is about webs of interlinked documents. Every time you require JavaScript to display a simple document; every time you load images with JavaScript instead of <img>; every time you replace an <a href=> link with a JavaScript event handler; every time you fail to even link to a page; every time you use JavaScript-loaded fonts to display symbols: you break the web.

'Web application' is a misnomer: it should be 'browser application.' Despite my loathing for documents (e.g. blogs, articles &c.) which require code execution in order to be read, I don't mind browser apps where they make sense. Google Maps makes sense: it doesn't bother me that it doesn't work in eww, or links, or with NoScript.

Blogger doesn't make sense: there's absolutely no legitimate reason for it to show an empty page with JavaScript turned off: Blogger is breaking the web. imgurl's failure to show all images, and Cracked's failure to show any images, without JavaScript makes no sense: they are breaking the web.

People who break the web should be deeply ashamed.
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There simply isn't enough land on earth to support substantial farming for 7 billion people. What you are advocating is to kill well over half the world's population.
The economy will sort itself out and efficiently provide goods for those with the means to trade for them. For those without something to trade, the economy will provide nothing.
Bay Area's future depends on managing rising sea levels
Yeah, I think we have all been there at one point. Spending hours tweaking every single line in a resume to make it match the job description perfectly.

It just doesn't work for people that come from different backgrounds. This story offers some hope.

Even though he's from hardware, and his programming experience dates back to the '70s, he was able to prove his skills by solving a coding challenge.

I'm working on hardware right now along with software, and I'll have to be careful when I apply for jobs in the future.
So, since people largely agree on who is attractive, does this mean FB would be recommended this poor lady to all the schlubby loners who wander through her checkout line? "The digital pimp, hard at work."
You didn't have an actual argument to counter.
A good barista pays attention to their work:

* A good barista will notice when they screw up the shot and pull pull another.

* A good barista will not burn or under-steam milk.

* A good barista will make sure you have the proper amount of milk and foam. (Getting a perfectly consistent result when steaming milk isn't really possible using a dead-reckoning controller or when using simple sensors like temperature AFAICT.)

* A good barista will make sure the drink looks as good as it smells and tastes.

* A good barista will have no problem customizing drinks.

Note that I didn't say impossible. Just difficult. You can probably get to better-than-Starbucks quality without too much AI. Auto coffee shops that beat starbucks already exist. But I'm not aware of any auto espresso machines that can compete with the baristas at my local coffee shop. And even if they could, I'd probably only use them at work, at airports, and at hotels.
I think you have to play additional games with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches then
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Ditto. You can even get notifications from Chrome, and the facebook website supports it.
Chat is by far the biggest hassle, but I'm willing to pay the price.
I see the slightly degraded experience as a good incentive to not go on Facebook as often.
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Correct. It's also the problem with taxes. Corporations move to where taxes are cheaper. But this doesn't mean there are no solutions.

Also, what cannot be ignored is the true drop in production costs because savings do get passed on to the consumer. This makes the politics difficult. If kittens died change would be much easier.
And your apples and oranges are the wrong color because the color rendition on them is so poor that Philips doesn't even publish the number. The only downlight I could find on their site has a CRI of 80 -- basically garbage. CRI is imperfect but things glow green until you get to the low 90s.
60 Minutes covered this same story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hsbc-swiss-leaks-investigation-6...
Getting that information should not be dependent on winning the "Not Shitty Employer" lottery.
To be fair, he was a successful researcher who became professor and later chair of the Mathematics department at Stony Brook before starting Renaissance, so he got past all that the normal way.
Why the government of France though? Their only involvement is that people are advertising to French people.

The French people have already been taxed to build-out the shared infrastructure, and have payed tax ISP, etc, and will be taxed on any purchases. So why should their government get yet another cut? And of things being done in other countries.

> The government is the people. The french people say "..."

The French people did not ask to be locked into the .fr portal. That's the only way this scheme works.

When Trump is elected (or maybe Hillary) will you roll over and accept everything they demand, justifying it as the will of the people? Or do you recognize that the government very frequently acts for the good of the politicians and against the people. Up-front tax money is good for politicians; look at them, raising money, and fighting the good fight. But long-term they've just built internet walls that will be used for oppression and destroyed the goose that laid those golden eggs.
But this is what already happened, we talk about the next level of automation, generic automation, machine learning, and next generation robotics that could replicate the finesse and agility of humans and are flexible enough to be adapted for any task.

The manufacturing in western nations in many cases is already as automated as it can get (yes there is always a room for more optimization but industries that have been automated since the 70's will and are already hitting diminishing returns), what has not been automated are mostly tasks that we choose not to automate for various reasons, many of which are cultural.

And yes most of the stuff we buy is mass produced, generic, and already highly automated but it's also not made in the US, the US consumer doesn't care about Chinese workers or unemployment in China, and it won't buy a 250$ hand crafted anything in China unless they are caught drunk in a tourist trap.
And that's exactly the point artisan crafting and manufacturing has been developing in the US and it is pretty much immune to threats from automation and the AI/Machine Learning revolution because we as consumers are making a conscious decision to buy it.
And even when we do buy mass produced generic crap just look at how many products are marketed today by selling you the human story from shoes to coffee beans it's all the same.
"Progressive Web Apps" is a Google brand. It's made of some good best practices and great technologies, but they reserve the right to re-define it and change the rewards around it however they choose. Install buttons are the carrot, and search rankings are the stick. Will non PWA-compliant but otherwise fast, well-made mobile web sites rank as highly as PWAs?
> E.g. The person at the counter in a McDonalds is the easiest person to replace -- all you really need is an iPad and a couple accessories.

Except that most people are REALLY BAD at operating a kiosk. You want a person at the kiosk so that they can gently guide the SUV driving suburban wife with the high maintenance order gently out of the way of the rest of the customers.

The backend jobs will be the first to get automated.
> We are not seeing new industries emerge that require large pools of labor which means the jobs being wiped out by automation are not being replenished.

Do you have a citation for that? I would be interested in seeing that. According to the Chinese government (which has been accused, in fairness, of fudging the numbers) their unemployment rate is highly stable.

Historically, as countries transition from developing to developed their workforce will shift from primarily non-skilled labour to primarily skilled labour [1]. China appears to be following this line naturally, if you trust their reported unemployment rates.

[1]: http://images.slideplayer.com/21/6263323/slides/slide_12.jpg
The electricity for my lights comes from thermal power plants with maybe 40% efficiency and then loses a little bit more in transmission. If I use LED bulbs, then that heat is replaced by my natural gas furnace, which is somewhere around 90% efficient. Net result, even in the dead of winter it saves energy to use more efficient bulbs. In summer, when I'm using electricity to cool my house, the difference is even greater.

Resistive heating with electricity is just terribly inefficient. If you have to do it anyway (because you need to run equipment, and that equipment is already as efficient as it'll reasonably get) then you can benefit a little by ensuring that this heat is put somewhere it's wanted. But if you don't have to do it, don't do it.

CFLs suck, but LEDs are great. I fear that the CFL interregnum may have hurt the cause of efficient lighting in general.
It looks like it has potentially some nice social features but...I like the control and that seems to fit Zotero better. Thanks for the suggestions. Pretty neat that there is software that is specific to this field. As I said, it's a hobby of mine but...I do it very regular. Many of my opinions are due to the research I do and this Zotero might be a great tool to say 'hey...I think this...due to these academic articles...' and being able to nicely point them into a specific direction. Thanks again!
What a gong show... Falciani aside, we have big banks fully implicated in high street robbery while suffering next to no damage (insignificant fines/settlements, no arrests) on one side, and on the other side we have government actors acting like cheap, incoherent buffoons, claiming one thing and doing another, participating in international diplomatic displays worthy of kindergarten.

Not that any of this is new, but the evidence that's accumulated thus far, particularly in view of the leaks over the past few years, would have you believe that something ought to happen. Yet HSBC and the likes are alive and well, so are their executives, and the only thing governments seem to have ramped up is their capacity for ridicule. The people in power seem to have little to no incentive to change the game, yet they keep getting voted in (or, in fact, just placed there). What recourse does the populace have at this point, short of throwing away the entire economic apparatus?
Algorithmics would disagree with you: the greedy algorithm, or trying to find a global maximum from local maxima, usually fails as a method. It's usually a "stupider" way of doing things :P

My own experiences, especially related to corporations, seem to corroborate this.
I contend that 'sine qua non' was the mot juste in that situation.
Not much, though Overwatch looks interesting... I don't game much at all. Mostly software development, and casual browsing, I just want the extra space.
Mac only :(
I think this is a difficult concept for people because our brains do such a good job compensating for mixed lighting. Our built in auto-white balance is too good. One example I use to explain this is the classic Hollywood 'moonlight' trick, which is achieved by using a daylight balanced source like a large HMI, and then using film or a camera that is balanced for tungsten. Looks like daytime to the eye, but on camera it looks like moonlight.

There are even special gels just for correcting various light sources CTO (color temp orange) CTB (color temp blue) and minus green (correct gross flo lights). The rest are usually regarded as 'party colors' since they are for non-technical corrections.
You need to click.

Open the game and follow the mouse with your eyes while you click each 8-directional edge of the game's viewport and then click the center.

Now you can let go of the mouse (don't need to move it out of the game) and the game should follow your gaze.

This demo is impressive. It's accurate enough for me to isolate the orange ball from the cluster.

On a website, the calibration could be done in a modal overlay. "Look at this dot while clicking it wherever it appears". After then Nth click, the modal goes away and the user lands on the website ready to gaze.
the http:// link you posted works fine, but if you attempt to access the link via https ( https://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-cachin... ), I get a "Secure Connection Failed" in Firefox.

Screenshot:

http://storage8.static.itmages.com/i/16/0525/h_1464199626_32...

That said, I'm not being redirected and I don't know why gp is.
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I've used some of the better tested LED bulbs (per http://www.ledbenchmark.com/ 2700K, 80+ CRI, "nice" looking spectrum, "flicker free"). They are very good, and have improved over bulbs from years back. Definitely better than any CFLs I've used. Still a bit less vibrant and warm compared to incandescent. I personally don't need huge amounts of light outside of bathroom/garage, and find most of the LED bulbs too bright if swapped out 1:1 per the equivalent wattage labeling in my existing fixtures.
There is a win for Germany:
- more opportunities for high skilled robotics engineers, so they can stay at home, and don't move to US
- tax income for country, which can be spend wisely.
Mongo comes with geospatial indexing baked right in. Never mind map / reduce. It comes down to the data structures of our times, which are increasingly not relational.
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Well, start a company: https://www.venafi.com/

I know of an enterprise that paid for this feature: "warn me when my certs are about to expire."
Good explanation from you two, but let me ask: how much does the article states that this is a new "fundamental force" as opposed to simply some new particle working within the known forces?

From what I understood the angle would imply that this force interacts with a given range but not outside of this range (so it might be strong nuclear? hidden dimensions? new forces?)
We switched to LEDs about two years ago and have switched back to halogen bulbs recently for few reasons.

1) It didn't actually make much difference on our electricity bill. I believe this is because we use most of our lighting during the winter, and the wasted heat from the traditional bulbs isn't really wasted at all -- we just shifted more work to our electric heating system.

2) Many of the bulbs had burnt out. I am now very skeptical of all the "20 year lifetime" claims since we lost many expensive bulbs in two years.

3) The light quality just isn't great. People will argue this point, and I can't point to any evidence to support my claim, but our perception was that the light was either too blue, or too yellow, and just "looked weird." I wonder if it's related to the strobing of the LEDs.

LED slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfWKcg8Bq0

Halogen slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCD5BMr6LsA
But isn't that shift in wealth actually happening? My understanding is that the richest investors are increasingly moving their capital from publicly-traded stocks to privately held companies (venture capital and private equity) exactly because they earn higher long-term returns. Those private companies don't have the same pressure to pay attention to short term results. Average investors can't make the same investments because they are largely locked out of those private markets. This is a market inefficiency, but it's likely to persist for a long time.
Same reasons as ECC on a server, or for that matter, being able to do a lower cost home or small office server. The same rules apply on a desktop too though, just less risk of impact from corrupt data in memory for a consumer PC vs server. That said, most offices are using consumer grade CPUs and hardware too.
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So the Nokia brand returns.. with a Vengeance

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2016/05/so-the-...
The issue has a lot to do with the finances of scale. Mom and pops aren't going anywhere, and neither are you, but Apple will go to Ireland, and wealthy individuals will bank in tax havens. And hence, the wealth gap widens. Most -- the "99%" -- stay and pay taxes. The 1% don't, but they look like they're still here. They just have one foot - the tax paying foot -- in Ireland.
Agree. While tastes differ, to me the Philips models (the ones that look like an Erlenmeyer flask) give the most pleasant light by far. They also seem to be much better constructed than the knock-off cheapies you find in bulk packs at Lowes or Home Depot.
> Daniel wanted to have a prenup, but Susan fought tooth and nail to keep it out of their marriage.

Is this not a huge red flag about Susan's intentions?
To be fair Thomas Jefferson raised tariffs significantly. Most manufactured products simply stopped existing for consumers. All of that demand and no supply spurred the creation of a domestic manufacturing industry in a country that had previously only been useful for agriculture and raw materials.
It's an Electron app, so it should build for Windows without too much trouble. If you're interested, give it a shot and let us know how it goes :) None of us are Windows experts, so happy to take any pull requests for Windows support. (Or even Linux)
But over two years, what would the extra $200 get you in terms of CPU options?
A collapse of consumer demand will also kill trade.
ZFS could not be a replacement for all of git, but (if you wanted to) you could use it to replace git's storage layer, which is basically independent of operations like merge. I.e. you can git-merge ZFS subvolumes (without any actual git repos) with recursive git-merge-file.
Works for me, but is it possible there was an incorrect HSTS configuration at some point? Possibly even the parent domain with includeSubdomains.
I was and am perfectly fine with the old incandescents going away, and I'll be perfectly happy when LEDs are legally phased out in favor of something better.
I tested ~10 different bulbs for my kitchen lighting about 5 years ago. I don't know how much the situation has changed since then, but at that time I had a few key requirements - high output (150W equivalent), warmish (but not super-warm for the kitchen) color temperature, fast turn-on speed, and dimmable.

Much to my surprise, the (almost) cheapest bulbs (some Utilitech model that doesn't seem to exist anymore) ended up being the winners. Instant on (no perceptible delay, compared to all others I tried), great color temp, no flickering, wide range of dimmability. I tried many different brands, from Phillips at 3* the price.

It's just a single anecdote, but I cared a lot about the performance of the bulbs, and I was surprised to find the cheap ones actually worked best. I think there's a lot of variability out there and you can't rely on cost and you definitely can't rely on brand name (Philips was the worst).

Lately, I've found Ikea's LED bulbs are good and quite cheap (with imperceptible delay on turning on).
> Daylight contains LOTS of blue light.

Yes, but the sun automatically goes down at night.

Most people don't turn off their lights at sunset. I believe what the author is saying that if you have a lot of artificial light after sunset giving off a lot of blue light, it can interfere with your sleep.
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> brewing the coffee and even foaming milk is something that a machine can do easily, and arguably better than most people, heck even latte drawing can probably be better done with a 2-axis drip nozzle than a barista with a bamboo

Is this true?

I'm mostly convinced about the brewing part (except that even the most meticulous machine will make mistakes, and a good barista will throw out a bum shot whereas a machine probably won't know the difference).

But I'm not convinced about the milk part. Do you have links?

(FWIW I totally agree with the tone and overall thesis of your post. And I really wish someone would deploy freshly ground-or-vacuum-sealed/fresh milk machines in airports/cafeterias/hotels/anywhere there's only a starbucks. But I also feel like better-than-average humans are still better than state-of-the-art machines.)
Their aging properties are different than incandescent. Incandescent tends to just fail when the filament breaks. There isn't much change in the spectral power distribution, and hence the overall stability of the light source is quite good. Whereas with fluorescent and even LED, there's a decaying of the phosphors, so while it'll produce light for a longer time (probably) the quality of the light will suffer immensely to the point that I think the longevity claims are approximately useless crap unless of course you don't care at all about the quality of light.
These rules can be boiled down to an even easier set, don't eat sugars and don't eat grains. Make your body adapt to burning fat for energy and you'll feel better (no mid-day crash after a carb-heavy lunch) and lose weight. There is a lot of growing evidence that cancer feeds on sugar and low/no-sugar diets can even help prevent it from occuring.
Yes. He also funds things like Mathematics museums. [0] He's an interesting individual who also wants to stay current in Math.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-01/harvard-gr...
I get it if there were children from a previous relationship. Sometimes step- relations can (and do) go sour, and that could guarantee that your children get a fair share.

Aside that, wanting one shows to me that you're not wanting to be a partner. Instead, you want special dispensation as a 'separate-class' in the marriage. Just no, no, no.
IANAL, but it depends on the situation. A prenup is a way to protect your spouse's and your respective assets by having a wall in between them. You design the wall. So, let's say, if you do something risky and creditors can come after you, at least your spouse's assets are protected. Often though, creditors will seek collaterals with your spouse as well, but at least it has to be explicit and on a case-by-case basis.

However, the US being a common law country, it's up to the judge to determine how enforceable they are. Apparently, judges are much less likely to enforce them in former spanish/mexican catholic states in the South-West than they are elsewhere in the country. So a prenup in California might be less useful than in New-York.

Lastly, a prenup does not say anything about how much you love your spouse. If you love him/her, you should plan for his/her safety if you engage in activities risking your own assets. Going down together for the sake of it is not a wise display of marital love.

Again, talk to your lawyer.
I agree you're getting the most accessibility by making a blog that renders on the server. But rendering front ends with javascript shouldn't be considered breaking the web. It's a tool that's available in the browser, and many use it to try and make a better experience for their overall users. I think it's a shame we have the "first load no content" problem, but developers are doing this with good intentions. Making UIs respond faster, reducing back & forth network requests, and trying to make more interactive content on the web.

There are some warts we need to sort out and get better at, but I still see it as progress.
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I've found the Philips 424382 (60w replacement, 2700K soft white) to be very nice. I haven't tried any of the replacement SKUs, though.
It's not a claim. It's a bet with $100,000 backing it.