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search for webfonts.enabled. change to false.

alternatively, install noscript extension to have a UI with whitelist.

if you are not using Firefox, then i have no sympaty. wait until google cares about you.
If there were fairness in the world, bad CEOs would get demoted instead of fired. Make them clean up the mess they made.
>The first iPhone had the same features as previous phones

The browser was the killer feature. Remember Jobs going to the NYT website?
I'd try throwing twitter bootstrap onto your project. IMO, it's the easiest way to get something that "looks like a modern webpage" when you aren't far enough along to have specific opinions about things.
Cloud flare isn't the internet?
I agreed earlier today.

Rethinking it I think they might have been really innovative, but more in sales, marketing etc than in pure technical terms.
I also would like that back, but I'd also pose to you this question:

Windows historically has been heavily used in botnets, in part because people do not apply updates to known (and fixed) vulnerabilities. Microsoft removing the "fuck off" button was a response to that, and I'd assert it's made the Internet in general safer. Yet it's also unquestionably had the side-effect of making Windows dramatically less pleasant to use.

What's the best solution here? iOS just reboots in the middle of the night, which would likely work well for Windows tablets, but might have issues with traditional desktops, since Windows doesn't have the freedom iOS does to just shut down apps. Linux leaves you to fend for yourself, which I think has mostly worked okay thus far because Linux users tend to be more technically sophisticated. macOS is a bit in-between, attempting to do the midnight reboot dance, but aborting if docs are open.
Needing to install, open and update an application to use a service as opposed to the 'convenience' of just entering a URL in a browser.
The possibility of practical artificial "gravity" isn't the only reason that's a stupid argument. We regularly send people to the ISS for longer than it takes to get to Mars and they're fine. Sure, it takes them a few hours to fully re-adapt to gravity and a few months to regain their muscle mass, but they're not sick.
If you have kids or move a little slowly due to health or old age, public transit is a straight up no-go.

All of the slow-moving elderly I see on the buses around Seattle would like to have a word with you.

I'll take my car, with its 8-way adjustable seat, climate control and cup holders, thank-you-very-much.

I tried it for a few weeks when I got tired of riding the bus. Jaguar S-Type, leather, walnut on the dash, about as nice as one's going to get.

I'd rather sit and wait in traffic in my car than stand outside in the rain or snow waiting for a bus.

To each their own. After two weeks of sitting on the 520 bridge staring at the bumper in front of me, I said "fuck this" and went back to the bus. You already said time was a "rare commodity" for working people, yet you'll sit in traffic while I sit on the bus making a bug fix or reading a book?

And on top of that, transit for me would be about $400/month.

Yoiks. $100 for me to ride the bus, versus $200-$300/month just for parking in downtown Seattle. That doesn't include gas or the $50K Jaguar. Again, though, for me it had nothing to do with money spent.

But we all have our limits. Currently I ride the motorcycle to work (a different destination from above), which allows HOV lane usage, which whittles my commute down to 30 minutes and I park in front of the building. And my ride to work is a motorcycle, which is a plus in my book. Versus 90 minutes on the bus, a transfer, and the bus doesn't drop me anywhere near the building.
Having to install them, remember what screen and folder it's in, etc.
Besides having to wait for the installation, one important recurring inconvenience for me (on iOS) is the lack of autofill. Especially autofilled user names and passwords.
Well its that, and that the users didn't need to configure a single thing when using the web thingy.

Problem is, imo, that so much of the web assumes a mouse and keyboard. I keep running into "mobile" sites that are so crammed with links and other tap targets that i have no chance to hit the right one on first try with consistency.
Note I never disagreed with GGP's premise - I'm only pointing out that you can go further than assembler.
In order to be a developer you have to:

- Be willing to sit in a chair for 8-12 hours a day, staring at characters on a screen, paying attention to tiny details that would drive many non-devs mad, and work in deeply-focused, high-concentration mode

- Be willing to keep with the latest technology trends on your time and often on your own dime. For many people this means essentially jettisoning the idea of a healthy social life

- Have the financial resources, talent, and drive to get through challenging academic material for 4-8 years at a university or spend all your free time teaching yourself everything you need to know, which can even harder, meaning again, no healthy social life

- Live in an area with an incredibly high cost of living that only gets higher each year (occasional pullbacks notwithstanding.) This can mean spending 30, 40, even 50% or your income every month just on rent or living with a gaggle of roommates through your twenties, thirties, even forties.

- Be part of an industry that, despite fierce competition for talent, will decline to hire qualified candidates on that basis of age, perceived "poor culture fit," having attended a "bad/wrong" school (or no school)

Devs are also value multipliers; they're worth more than some marginal value. When you hire a dev, you're hire them to bring in 2,3,5,10 times what you're paying them in value, not 120k so that they can bring in 130.

The fact that devs are paid high salaries is good and makes perfect sense. It's part of the reason doctors are paid so much (and if we were really fair, currently underpaid professions that are similarly demanding would be paid far more than they are now.)

Now, the "this hurts startups" issue is something to be concerned about, but not at the expense of workers. What can be done here?

- Get used to needing more VC money. Adjust expectations

- Figure out ways to make startups cheaper (#1 on the list should be massive housebuilding. If rents were 1/3 of what they are, we would likely not be even reading this article. Right now all that would-be "extra" money gets directly funneled into the pockets of landlords. Tech bigwigs should be pouring massive resources / clout into changing this. Density, public housing to take pressure off the low end, all of it: https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/fixing-the-nyc-rent-crisi...)

- Get used to having fewer, but better capitalized startups
Curious what are typical results that come from all those meetings? 100 hours/week is a lot of time to spend in meetings & e-mails. How many new customers typically result from that? What sort of growth rate? What's the conversion rate for a typical YC company, and how much does it increase over the length of the program?
Still questionable. Steve could have allowed the Mac to become "just another client," sure, but it could've been a professional-focused client. The fact that all your data was moving to the cloud for easier access isn't a negation of bringing that data back down to a more capable machine for production.

I mean, the post-PC era came, but it's not like our collective productivity went off a cliff with it, nor that the majority of our productivity moved to mobile. It's just moved to non-Apple platforms.
Heck, this is my #1 complaint of almost anything on a mobile browser. It's easily the worst offender when it comes to mobile in general; I wish browser vendors put a bigger focus on fixing this, somehow.
I can easily imagine huge disasters on Earth that kill 90+% of the population but even then Earth will still have a higher population and be more habitable than Mars. And I can imagine things that would wipe out humanity on Earth and Mars. But the range of disasters that would totally wipe out humanity on Earth while sparing Mars seems pretty narrow to me.
The price you quote for a SpaceX launch covers the reusable portion of the payload only, not the full unlocked capability of the launch vehicle. That's an Apple's to Oranges comparison.
Well, it does make me want to go and see for myself. It could be more interesting if I knew some russian.
Precautionary principle.

Multiply the odds of the problem by the costs of the problem. If a DO outage would cost you millions of dollars, then it will be much, much cheaper to spend $250,000 a year to fix a problem than it will be to deal with the consequences.

The problem is that most software developers are gamblers, and most businesses encourage that behavior. Some even cultivate it. We take stupid risks all the time and when we don't get caught we think that means that none of our actions have consequences.

And mostly those people are right. Stock options pay off so infrequently and so inconsistently that they are a poor incentive for long term thinking. In fact the only time I ever got any money out of options was because of a pump and dump by the founders (aka an acquisition).

Even the worst developers I've worked with would take 3-5 years to drive a company into the ground, unless nobody else was paying any attention at all. And when the company folds, they've still got years of take-home pay and they just have to find a new job.
It is in NO WAY the "whole reason", and your first quote has a "[citation needed]".

Your second quote begins with "a long history". Historically this was more important, these days there are much better ways of controlling sanitation, and like I said almost all types of beer have hops in them anyway; IPAs don't see a significant advantage in sanitation.

I'm in NY and I've done brewing at scale. IPAs have been a popular style for quite a while now, I don't see what it says about one scene over another.
Oh jeez, I'm so sorry for pointing out that .NET has literally never been branded as "dotNET".
I live in China and I use MicroG / NOGAPPS since the early days.
But I really don't see why it should be of any interest for the average Chinese user?
The is a very healthy Android ecosystem here in China, independent of Google. For example apps usually depend on Baidu Maps / 高德地图 for viewing maps.
There is simple no reliance on any Google apps here. Payment is usually done with WeChat Pay or AliPay.
I would actually say it is more seamless than in the West.

The only strange thing is, that for app downloads usually the APK is directly linked - while still using the Play Store logo. That is because there are many different app store providers. However, as soon as the app is installed, it gets updated by that respective app store.
"If you’re reading this as a member of the public, please don’t be put off by the conflicting headlines – we all agree cigarettes are bad for you, most of us agree vaping is probably much safer than smoking regular cigarettes, and if you’re a smoker we all really want our research to help you to quit. Don’t let us get in the way."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/201...
Sun-Earth L1, while not in Earth's orbit, is still within the Earth's Sphere Of Influence as it has a negative Characteristic Energy value.
>I wish identifying crap was a more widespread skill. I think if I ever became a millionaire (doubtless by >>selling<< business self-help books), I'd "give back" by volunteering at a High School to teach kids skepticism and bullshit detection.
Can someone explain what is the meaning of "madeleine" here? Is it referring to the famous incident of "let them eat cake"? I'm not familiar with it being used to refer to anything other than food.
What are the pros and cons between Relay and Apollo?
so the issue is reduced load on muscles and bones.

10x rate of bone resorption in osteoporosis. bones are the biggest worry imo.

even though the astros work out 15 hours a week, it's still not enough to cover this rate of resorption, and (this is an asspull) pretty sure it affects them for months or years after doing long stays at ISS.

I'm not sure if there's any proof that we could create artificial gravity such that these decreased loads wouldn't still occur. wouldn't it mess with their inner ear as well?

And yeah, the only real issue is cost, but that's a doozy of an issue. what country is going to spent monumental budgets on making this ship with all the financial crises going on currently?
There are trains and there are trains. When I commuted from Baltimore to D.C., the 15 minutes I spent on the Red and Orange to get from Union Station to my office was much more draining than the 45 minutes on the Amtrak from Baltimore to D.C.
> Categorizing type as "a design choice" dismisses it as fashion rather than function, which I don't think is the case.

I think it's a question of how often it's one vs. the other. There are precious few good examples of web font usage -- so few, in fact, that I can't even think of one off the top of my head.

> Type can put fashion over function, but it can also enhance function by making text more readable,

How so? I mean, I've literally chosen my system fonts based on readability (to me, on my screen, with my eyesight, with my lighting conditions, etc!). I'm also used to those fonts.

> [...] by expressing a point visually that reinforces the point the page is making textually

Do you have any good examples of this? I don't think I've ever seen it "in the wild", so to speak.

Disclosure: I'm so annoyed by web fonts that I use a browser plugin which actually overrides fonts chosen by web pages, so I may not have been experiencing a representative sample of "what's out there". I had to have a quick-toggle for that plugin because suddenly it became fashionable to use goddamn fonts for icons. Ugh. Don't get me started :).
IMO, the main worrying thing is that Discord is propped up entirely by VC money right now, and there's absolutely no telling how the hell they're going to monetize it. Slack at least has the obvious "pay us money" model, so they can survive on that even with competitors. IRC (decentralized) and Skype (Microsoft, unlimited money) could practically survive nuclear apocalypse, by comparison.

They promise the core features will remain free, but I don't trust that when investors come knocking for a return, and I expect unless they find a very suitable model, it will slowly start to get worse at some point. I seriously doubt their core audience (people playing games) is going to throw money at them for things, like, skins, or something. Maybe they plan on more "B2B" style profitability where they do deep integration with partners like Youtube, Twitch etc behind the scenes?

FWIW: I say this as someone who's extremely happy with Discord since I switched me and my friends over to it for playing games, and as someone who thinks they really do have a solid product. And as someone who'd hate to see it go into the shitter just because of the above. It's wonderfully stable for its youth, and it's light years ahead of Skype, Vent, Mumble in terms of "Just Works", and has every feature we've needed, and more (the moderation/ACL, and external service features keep getting better, for example).

Maybe my only complaint with Discord is that, because it's so feature rich, it's actually a bit confusing to initially wrap your head around, in terms of UI/UX. I had to guide a few of my more non-technical friends through the UI when they first used it. Things like, non-obvious buttons and stuff like that.
Can someone link me to a hi-res image.. or do I have to buy the newspaper in order to read the ad?
It's an amusing little experiment but there are a number of possible factors the person running it didn't consider that, I think, are more likely than his actual conclusions.

First, there is the possibility that Casablanca is not actually a very good movie. The author of this article claims that Casablanca is "the most famous movie in the history of film." That may have been correct a generation or two ago, but in the decades since Star Wars, I think "the most famous movie" is Star Wars.

I would agree that Casablanca is a very famous movie, and a fun movie, but having seen it in the theater, I didn't think it was actually a great movie. It is a relatively small story, and lightweight, and trivializes its period and events. It's relatively low in drama, and it relies heavily on the (at the time) star power of its leads, and aside from some clever catch-phrases, it is talky and the dialogue does drag.

Just talking movies of the 1940s, I would argue that Citizen Kane (1940), The Great Dictator (1940), The Third Man (1949), The Big Sleep (1946), Rope (1948), and Miracle on 34th Street (1947) are all better movies, more artfully filmed and more memorable, although perhaps some are more kitschy and Corny than Casablanca.

Certainly, one could expect that people reading the screenplay "slush pile" for agencies ought to be familiar enough with the history of film to recognize the story of Casablanca or at least some of the catch-phrases. But I think the "gatekeepers" are actually often the most junior, least knowledgeable folks in the industry.

Wow, I must be really bored today to write all that... eating my lunch and I can't be bothered to do anything but read Hacker News : P
The dangerous acceptance of Donald Trump
You mitigate by redefining toxins as resources through technology, i.e. carbon capture, waste-to-energy, toilet-to-tap.

This will add costs, but in a macro-economic context, these costs would be negligible, offset by a healthy rate of inflation, increasing wages and overall economic growth.

Plus, once toxins are resources, they have value and could be used to offset, at least partially, the additional costs.
The opposite of saving is not wasting, it's spending. It's only a waste if you spend it badly.
It exists pretty much everywhere in more civilized countries, it is just US lagging years behind.
It isn't vague where I live, a bar can't sell homebrew under federal law.

I generally don't trust breweries that have "a mediocre selection of beers" in general, regardless of what type of IPA they're serving.
I prefer IRC because I can grep the logs. Slack's search is next to useless.
The Bigtable Paper Just Got the SIGOPS 2016 Hall of Fame Award
Yeah, a get on a dataset has to do strictly more work than getAttribute: it has to convert the string it has to a "data-whatever" string and then call getAttribute.

But note that in microbenchmarks you are likely to get some confusing effects. For example, in Firefox this microbenchmark:

document.getElementById('test').getAttribute('data-set')

will get optimized as follows:

1) getAttribute is known to be side-effect free when called with a string argument, its return value is not used, the call can be dead-code eliminated.

2) getElementById is known to be side-effect free when called with a string argument, its return value is not used after step 1, the call can be dead-code eliminated.

3) The get of the "document" property is known to be side-effect free, its return value is not used after step 2, the get can be dead-code eliminated.

So in the end the microbenchmark is measuring how fast the browser can increment a loop counter, and that only because we haven't bothered to try dead-code eliminating that. That's why you get numbers in the billions of operations per second range (comparable to the CPU clock speed; always a dead giveaway that your thing got optimized out). ;)

Note that Firefox will also perform loop-hoisting on all of the above if possible, so even if the return value were assigned somewhere that would not matter: the whole thing would just get hoisted out of the loop.

The setAttribute and "dataset.set = stuff" benchmarks don't have these problems, because those operations are clearly not side-effect free. A sufficiently advanced JIT might be able to determine that earlier iteration assignments are dominated by later ones and eliminate them, but now we're talking quite hard work on the part of the browser.
Actually, that's how a Swarm Intelligence works - it's a real-time system that connects LIVE PEOPLE using swarming algorithms.

So, the Boston Globe provided the people and provided the questions... they formed a Swarm Intelligence, and made the predictions.

The Boston Globe did this to see if the swarm intelligence could make strong picks. It did.
He left Apple as a loose canon, a renegade who kept sabotaging his own projects, often losing touch with reality.

NeXT brought him back to Earth, both in terms of being able to produce a product people wanted, and in terms of managing a team without being a total tyrant. It wasn't a smooth progression, NeXT did start out pretty out-there, but in the end it was more pragmatic. OpenSTEP and other efforts demonstrated that.

The Isaacson biography isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's utter garbage. I can't believe someone has that level of access and churns out a book that's basically the Cliff's Notes version of all other books about Jobs already published.
That's a great question.

The relatively easy part is to find who recently raised money and we do it mostly through monitoring the press and limiting what we present only to companies that fit the criteria.

Behind the scenes we do much more complex stuff in order to evaluate the companies and a hint for that can be seen in the badges below the company description.
In essence, we built search engine that profiles companies in depth by looking at the companies website, github activity any anywhere we could find information about the founders, investors, team, product and even the code itself.

This is being developed mostly for our discovery engine - Yodas (www.yodas.com) and we benefit from it for Hyper.
Imagine if Windows 10 updates looked like these Release Notes.
Let the IRC wars begin. :) Seriously, I am not sure what to think when a chat company is worth 1 billion. Sure it has nice UI but so does HipChat and a bunch of other tools. For me, Slack is just one of the many communication platforms I used ever since, starting with IRC, ICQ and other apps and protocols from the 90s. I am not particullary fond on Microsoft but they deliver. I cannot forget the initial uproar when they introduced their entering the gaming console industry with Xbox, and look at them now. Slack has to offer a bit more than just a nice UI for async messaging to be relevant in the corporate communication space in the next 5 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging#History
Fantastic comment! In fact, it seems that sports games, or at least NBA games, can be described accurately and consistently using (slightly modified) random walks. Put differently: Outcomes are indeed random and there's not much machine learning you can do here.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2825

And here's a slightly more exciting description of a talk one of the authors gave on that topic at UMass Amherst last year:

https://www.physics.umass.edu/seminars/statistics-of-basketb...

EDIT: I was too stupid to realize that the paper linked above actually supports the parent's opinion, i.e. the idea that successful predictions are statistical artifacts, contrary to what I was thinking earlier.
A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
All web developers should be forced to spend a full week using their site on each of LTE, 3g, and 2g. If your website takes more than 10 seconds to load on an ad-block free LTE device you're fired.

Relevant: Page Weight Matters (2012) http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
Yep. I've used NaCl for edwardian curves using djb's boxes and it's pretty much ideal as far as I'm concerned.