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This post seems to conflate two ideas (1) AMP being an insufficient implementation (update-ping not working, and that being an awkward pattern anyways) and (2) AMP being actively harmful to the web ecosystem in principle.

(1) Comments on the implementation I don't know nearly enough to contest. It's a new technology, and will take a lot of changes in and out of Google to get right. It's also early days - continue raising a stink about things like this and I expect it to get better quick.

(2) The principle of AMP leads to a very interesting discussion. The fact that the top-level URL users go to is not the canonical URL for the page does stray into "breaking the web" territory, at least until it's better supported in browsers. On the other hand, as I understand it that's a technical requirement for AMP to be able to verify the content served through it, which is a requirement in turn for keeping AMP page quality high (in terms of latency, etc, rather than content judgements). Which I think is the most enticing part of AMP, and not something that should be given up lightly.

I see AMP as a possible answer to the tragedy-of-the-commons problems that have resulted from standardizing on third party display ads for monetization, third party scripts for analytics, etc. Giving someone else a hook into your page that isn't incentivized to keep it fast and reliable leads to an end state where publishers have no reason to clean up the experience on their own sites because that'd cost them money, and because the bad experience on every other site prevents them from being commensurately rewarded for being a good player. (E.g. adblockers affect every site equally). And the third party tech providers have no incentive to fix things for similar reasons - alternative providers out there would cause the same poor user experiences anyways, and make more money from doing so and enabling them to sell to publishers better. If we cannot rely on principled actions from publishers or tech providers, how does the experience of the web get better enough broadly?

AMP to me is an answer to that - maybe not the best answer, but the most viable one I've seen so far. It allows for direct control of what is/isn't possible, and if it gains traction may have enough clout to push for some of those better experiences that aren't arising naturally.

The other possible answers I see don't seem to be working better. Relying on regulation seems destined to failure; user experience is too messy to craft rules around, and nobody is placed to enforce them globally. Relying on common gatekeepers seems to be failing - Google algorithm changes worked for a while to incentivize page quality, but I don't think Facebook is (or should?) making equivalent judgements about the quality of content users link to for ranking purposes, and it seems even harder to enforce in other direct-user-sharing sites like Twitter.

[Edit] Disclaimer: I work for Google, in Technical Infrastructure. I used to be in Ads, though not related to AMP.
Things get contaminated by radioactive material, not by radiation exposure [0]. And of course obligatory xkcd [1].

[0] https://www.mirion.com/introduction-to-radiation-safety/radi...

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
Fascist is the most overused word of recent years. The original fascists in Italy were WW1 veterans who had read Marx and observed that being put in a uniform and militarized erased distinction between classes, and sought to replicate that at a societal level to end class conflict. The patriotism, the strong hierarchical government, the diversion of industry towards armaments production, were all parts of this, but they weren't the end in and of itself. And the Italian fascists didn't really have any sort of racial agenda. They worshipped technology, industrial progress, youth, futurist artists, and so on.

People called Farage a fascist, but there was very little overlap if any at all between what he believes and advocates, and what fascists do. Farage doesn't want a strong government, it's questionable if he wants any sort of functioning government at all, he's closer to an anarchist than a fascist. Same with Trump, he doesn't believe what fascists believe or want what fascists want. Now a lot of people don't like them, and fair enough - but if words are to mean anything at all let's retire "fascist" as a general purpose pejorative for any badman...
> This could easily be mistaken for one of Hinduism’s most cited and profound tenets: Karmanye vadhikaraste, ma phaleshou kada chana, which translates to “You have the right to act but do not expect the fruits of your action.” What Eco implies is the lack of reflection before acting and a “distrust of the intellectual world.”

This is a bit of a red herring. The way that verse is explained is not "doing for the sake of doing" but "doing GOOD for the sake of doing GOOD". In no way does it imply not choosing the right action before performing it. It is about not getting attached to a particular expected outcome.
>The value of Stirling hit a 31-year low after the vote, which obviously made the UK an attractive market for overseas buyers

...and so why didn't the experts foresee this if it was so obvious? Why did they predict a cataclysmic decline in employment instead?

>wasn't so good for the people of Britain.

Depends whether you're concerned more about reviving jobs in depressed industrial areas or the value of your stock portfolio/holidaying in the riviera.

Anyway, whether or not you think Brexit was good or not (I think personally probably not), there's no doubt that "project fear" was an apt description of the remain side's "expert" arguments.
Seems so familiar to the anti school choice movement in the states. Arguing that poor kids must be forced to go to substandard public schools, under the guise of protecting the kids, while really wanting to treat education as a guaranteed money source for political actors and the teachers' union.
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I can't help but feel AMP is a step in the wrong direction and was quite possibly a disingenuous play from Google from the get-go.

URL highjacking is harmful for the web and I can't for the life of me understand how this project could get past the initial stages without that drawback being understood.
I wonder if there isn't perhaps somewhat like an uncanny valley of language, wherein it's even more confusing when someone is using the right words and pronunciation but not quite putting them together in the normal way.

Sort of like the famous Yahoo Answers query: "Has anyone ever been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100225111311A...
Perhaps they could start by talking to Ikea and H&M as part of this initiative?

These are two of their largest exports, both of which have flooded the global retail market with cheap and disposable goods.

The fact that both of these companies produce more "stylish" designs of throwaway goods does not diminish their impact on the environment or lessen their very sizable contribution to and promotion of disposable culture.
If a surface temperature of −179.5 °C isn't enough to stop someone, logic never will.
It absolutely is. It's 8 Torx and 1 Philips to remove the bottom, and the M.2 SSD is right there.
That's because developers work with text quite a lot, and text benefits hugely from a higher res screen.
>This is well known. Relative social status has an influence on health.

You mean outside of health choices made for financial reasons? That was news to me. Simply being in bottom hurts you, even if you are doing everything else the same.
The problem with "you vote with your money" is how unequal money is distributed.

To accept it you must either be against democracy as a concept of equal rights to vote, or for an almost equal distribution of income. Neither of which is particular mainstream ideologies today.
The problem is, a hole in the ground is indeed often worth more than someone's creative output, because many people's creative output has negative worth. Silicon valley has fixated on behaviors that are actively harmful to users--corporate surveillance, spam, poor security, etc. In some cases these behaviors are damaging society as a whole.

I put $10 in the hole. If such a thing existed, I'd be willing to put a lot more toward any effort that would plausibly put Facebook out of business without an equally evil alternative arising.

I can't say the same for your apps, since I don't know you or your apps, but the average app I wouldn't install for free, because I know they would collect my data and use it against my interests.
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I don't really understand why it's not done as a typical content-negotiation thing. Perhaps there's a good reason but since my first query of why they were doing something wasn't valid HTML and the reply was "O(fun) is important"...
However, look at it from their point of view.

If they're from a foreign culture or country then they've already given up on socializing with their own people by becoming exchange students. Theoretically they could learn or gain something from local kids, if kids had anything useful to teach them, and if they planned on staying after graduation. But if they don't plan on staying, then no matter how much or how little socializing they do, they'll just get one line on the resume or a checkbox at job time so over-investing in socializing won't help their future. So they may as well at least get something out of the classes, by learning as much as possible from the profs. Which they need to do, if a GPA of 2.0 and the right local friends is as useful in the job market back home, as a GPA of 4.0 from some foreign school and no local friends because they were at the foreign school.

From their point of view, maxing out their GPA is far more useful than getting drunk with people who won't matter to them in a couple short years, and being kids, have nothing to teach them anyway.
In very high quantities, yeah, it's bad. Just like everything, including water and oxygen.

In small amounts, your body can handle methanol just fine. Which is fortunate, because it's present in many foods at much higher levels than what you'd get from drinking a can of Diet Coke.
I've seen this a lot recently. 'identity politics' is an odd thing to accuse the left of. While the right continually fights to disadvantage groups of people (or keep them disadvantaged), they claim the left is focusing too much on those groups when they fight back.

I'm sure that if they had not been trying to hard to paint slaves not as people, but as chattel, the slave owners in the past would have called abolition 'identity politics' too - why focus so much on one group?!

The reality is the progress from the left benefits us all. These are never policies that specifically benefit one group, they just end up benefiting groups more because they are so disadvantaged right now.

Again, it feels like another way in which the right seems to believe that freedom and rights for others come at their expense.
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Both have the advantage of not having to present consistent data to end users.
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If you wanted to use JavaScript, use something like Cocos2D JS:
https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x

The game engine is native and you communicate with it via JavaScript.

PhoneGap was just an unsuitable choice to make because it's not built with games in mind at all. Over a normal webview, it gives you a way to communicate with native mobile features but that's about it. You should have looked for a dedicated game engine. There's plenty built around HTML5 as well but you're likely still going to deal with browser quirks.
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Of course they're able to. They just (rationally, typically) don't want to spend the money and effort getting there, and so they don't.
I do the next best thing, I play in class.
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IKEA products are ideal for waste to energy programs based on the material used for manufacturing.
> The only thing I'd like to do in future is to do POP, SMTP, sorting and search in Emacs instead of through all those programs.

Have you given a try to mu4e? I've been using that for more than 5 years now and it is really great :).

https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
I don't think it's particularly noisy. Sure, you can hear it when doing CPU-intensive stuff (say, doing "make -j4" on a large project), but well - the heat needs to go somewhere, otherwise the laptop would get quite hot (like the MBP, for example). The fan opening is on the bottom, not on the side/back as on other laptops, so perhaps this also dampens the noise.

I've heard there were issues with proper power management on skylake when it was new, so perhaps they fixed it in the kernel - no idea. Or maybe the noise is worse on the models with Nvidia, which is one of the reasons why I wanted a model without it. It's also possible that the fan will get more noisy over time, so let's see.

Update: The one thing I'm only 95% happy with is the keyboard - it's way better than on all the other 15.6" laptops I've tried (in particular no numpad stupidity), but I'd still prefer the keyboard from my old t420s. The enter is way too narrow on the "EN international" keyboard, should get the US keyboard instead, for example.
“There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.”

So remember your mittens, people.
Yeah, I contacted the support and I got quick reply from Dejan that they will refund half of the bill.

I just noticed that the support email was marked as spam by outlook.com (weird, since I'd already marked the invoice and other emails from Migadu as "Not Spam").
Modi isn't inspired by Nazis, neither is he an anti-Muslim. The author is just making a big deal of small things and quoting things out of context.

"Protesting students?- Anti-nationalist". Yeah except the student was protesting against the hanging of a cruel terrorist.
"Appeal to social frustration" - makes no sense. India is special in this case in no way.
"Craves heroic death" - We do make a big deal when someone dies doing a heroic action. This is fascism?

The whole article is just pointless rant. I think Modi is one of the most smart and active Prime Ministers that India has had and I'm in no way a supporter of BJP (his political party)
Heh. You don't educate the poor in autocratic regimes. The government just doesn't want you to. Educated masses organize and autocrats can lose their heads.

The whole thing is a scheme to bilk money from the West. That's the only reason they allowed the schools in the first place, and they're going to keep kicking them around, ensuring that no real education can take place, and score millions in "licensing" fees.
That was the case with the last (9350) model, but now both have the same "Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1."
Go old school and use a tape, it should work just as well.
Skylake support only really landed in 4.4 and ramped up in 4.6 to be release-ready, it's fairly well known and you can ready any release vote from 4.4 to 4.7 to see commits pertaining to Skylake or the XPS13.
Hi macmac, yes we’re definitely thinking about email integration but it’s still a little further down the roadmap.
If people are willing to pay as much for water as they do for oil or gas, can we use oil infrastructure (tankers, pipelines, trains, etc) to transport water?
I almost always hear "RJ45" to identify the 8-conductor ethernet female or male connector - depending on the context. It is universally understood, and there is no confusion about it. There is nothing wrong with using it in everyday conversation.

I have never once heard the phrase "8P8C" used to refer to an ethernet jack. Not once (outside of this thread) - but I have heard it used that way when referring to various 8-pin telco connections - it was a common term of art in the 90s when describing telco installations that used that configuration. When talking about Ethernet, and people are trying to be specific, they usually reference EIA-TIA-568B/A.

There are certain words, like "Bandwidth" - that, might technically mean the width of the band (typically in Hz), but have grown over time to refer to data rate as well. And that's cool - language is versatile that way.
I did a technical review of what I felt were the major pros/cons of implementing AMP pages:

http://blog.robertelder.org/adding-support-for-amp-pages/

Edit: To save you a click, here are some of the key points:

- You can't use Javascript on AMP pages, but you can put Javascript in iframes or substitute the javascript feature for an existing amp-component.

- AMP pages require that Javascript is enabled.

- In order for pages to pass AMP validation you must include the "https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js" script on AMP pages. Furthermore, I believe you are required to hotlink to the ampproject version as I have been unable to pass validation with a locally served copy of these scripts.

- You can't use inline 'style="..."' tags

- AMP uses inline 'style="..."' tags on rendered markup

- External stylesheets are not allowed

- You will likely want to maintain a separate AMP view and a non-amp version of your pages.

- The DOM structure of AMP pages will be slightly different than for desktop pages.

I wouldn't say that I like AMP, but since the world is going mobile I figured I should try to become and early adopter for AMP. In a way, I kind of hope that the AMP projects gets abandoned, but if that happens then I'll have wasted a bunch of time adopting it.
School choice means competition among schools. Which leads to winner and losers. So you will get bad schools. The only way to avoid this is, to have only good schools, nation wide. So that the best school is the one in your district.
I see here two concepts of "being able to"
This is a tough one.

I'm generally leery of things like eminent domain, because they can be very problematic. On the other hand, there's a good chance that converting a lot of blocks also means we need to up utility capacity in the area, which can be very disruptive for residents, so it also makes sense to rebuild an area at a time.

I like the idea of having the city nominate regions, and then any time 90% of a block agrees, the whole block is sold as a unit (or maybe auctioned with minimum bid) and rezoned at that time. (This kind of idea meshes well with the development plan of having several high density clusters smattered around the city as neighborhood focal points, which is what my city recently switched to.)

It doesn't quite fix the utilities problem or some people being forced out, but I think it balances out a lot of competing forces reasonably, and keeps us from working with weird lots during development (as the city can repartition the block during rezone).
I love BPB. Common sense would suggest that they must be the worst mouthpiece of government propaganda imaginable, but that expectation makes them so obscure that no political actor would ever consider it worthwhile influencing them. A very valuable arrangement, impossible to deliberately set up from scratch.
Good to see nothing changes. Many years ago I found I could bypass a 760EL password by copying the boot sector from an IBM util floppy disk to any boot disk.
Are there any tips to getting Linux working well with HiDPI displays? We tried running kUbuntu on a QHD Razer laptop and the experience was pretty bad. Also tried Fedora, but that was bad for other reasons (kernel crashes, don't like Gnome3).

With kUbuntu we can scale parts of the UI OK, but many apps just don't scale and are unusable. Until this is really solved across the board, Linux laptops will remain a thing of the future.

Also, the Kaby Lake power management was trash and the system would lock up every time you toggled the caps lock.
I agree that the economy exists to serve people. The fact that the economy demands people get jobs in order to be served and then doesn't give them jobs should be seen as a damning case where the economy isn't performing the function for which it exists.
Thanks for the heads up! (And apologies for the delayed response). Both those issues were fixed & should be working fine now :)
I am not sure about this. India has never been good at conforming to a particular point of view. Aurangzeb tried it. Indira tried it. I read an article about traffic of a country implying how lawful it is. And just before reading this, I almost got knocked down by a big car jumping a red light while on a bike(In Bangalore too. We call ourselves civilized here). So whenever I get worried, we are falling into absolutism, I then recall how chaotic our streets and roads are. It's kind of a strength-is-weakness thing with India. You can't enforce a law here, but also can't impose a fascist state. I guess we are just destined to be the average guy of the world. Like the Big Lebowski, we only want our own patch of carpet, everyone else can go fuck themselves. Hail Tribalism :/
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This is awesome, thanks for sharing.

The full build process is documented [1,2], and the sources are very readable and well-commented.

Also appears to include a basic install-to-disk script, which from the looks of it you definitely should not try unless you know how to fix your MBR after it overwrites whatever you've currently got in place.[3]

Github: https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal

[1] http://blog.idzona.com/2016/04/component-architecture-of-min...

[2] https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal/blob/master/src/the_d...

[3] https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal/blob/master/src/overl...
After reading the entire post still not clear what is it- some music test for researchers? Audio test for listeners? Is it entertainment or utility or research?
I would still rather live on Earth after the worst case scenario for climate change or a nuclear war.
How do you deal with the microphone?
Paying taxes would be a better social counter-part for their huge profit. Uganda government is right, imo. Let them manage education, not foreign corporations.
Perhaps Sweden has many such "waste to energy" facilities but they aren't as common as land fills and garbage dumps in most of the international markets that Ikea operates in.

At any rate wouldn't it still be better to not produce the waste in the first place?

Also how much how much energy is consumed turning that waste into energy?
> neither is he an anti-Muslim.

[citation needed] (considering his involvement in Gujrat riots and Babari Masjid issues.).
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I think the least of my concerns would be the camera - at least if they are doing that, they might trigger some data usage that I could catch on my modem/little-snitch, etc....

If they are able to access the, then odds are they can access things like my keyboard, 1password passwords, banking, etc...
The reddit community is usually very
supportive of such a response

No they're not. They prefer trolling or upvoting whatever sounds cooler.
Asks a media outlet. Fun to watch other industries pretend they don't have this problem.
Nah, it is just a way for people to make themselves feel superior. It happens a lot here in America too. I think my english is fine, but say one word just a tiny bit off and some of them will make a "what?" with a face of pure confusion as if you were speaking in a completely foreign language.

My main language is Spanish and when I speak with people practicing their Spanish I can usually understand them no matter their accent or how bad their pronunciation is. It has to be really bad for me not to understand them. The context of the conversation helps a lot too. But here in America say a word a bit off and people make a big deal out of it. C'est la vie.