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This is innovative and might be enough to get me to switch browsers. I'm perplexed at why Firefox, Chrome and IE only ever seem to innovate the engine and have basically given up on doing anything novel with UI.

OK performance is nice to have but frankly I think that's just managers shoving resources at that because they know how to measure it and a 10.3% increase in speed or memory efficiency or something is easy to sell in a meeting.

UI innovation is much harder to quantify, requires more work to sell, and the payoff takes much longer to manifest, not least because every change will generate a certain number of complaints from people who think their pet issue should have been addressed first, like UI designers are interchangeable with performance specialists.

Chrome shot to first place because it kicked Firefox's ass on performance and IE's ass on reliable rendering (an opinion which you may or may not agree with). But while extensions are wonderful they can't and don't replace core UI innovation. And tbh I'm really bored with Chrome at this point; from a user point of view nothing significantly new has happened for a really long time.

Look at the bookmark management, for instance. It's been the same since forever, and if I want to socialize that information or turn it into a feed or something I have to go looking for third-party solutions, which are thin on the ground because people are reluctant to develop too much for a platform over which they have little or no control.
I highly suspect it is plain cheaper (and more convenient) to just subsidize private car rides for disabled people than making entire transit infrastructure in huge city to account for them.

Better yet, take the money that government would otherwise spend on building all the wheelchair accomodations, and just distribute that between wheelchair users. I am sure many of them would prefer that over subway improvements which they might never use.

"Disabled people cannot reach their [work, school, childcare, w/e]", if true, is a valid problem. There are multiple ways to solve that problem. "NYC subway does not have wheelchair accomodations" is a useless outrage over circumstantial symptoms.
The last few times I worked with Java, I had the same issues but that was several years ago as a very novice programmer, so I can't tell if my information is outdated and/or whether my inexperience was what led to my difficulties.
I generally agree, but in this specific case worry that we will (as with any research) get done false results that will get picked up by right wing media while the research that disproves those will be ignored. The people who already don't believe in climate change will just continue to cherry pick what they believe. The entire discussion has become so politically loaded that I am not convinced any amount of evidence will convince these people. Just like evolution etc.
Good thing most people aren't in wheelchairs!

Edit: What, you really wish more people were in wheelchairs?
Some of the tiny VPS providers accept $12-20 up front for a year of service and might disappear before the year is out, but it isn't a big deal because they are so cheap.

I imagine they wouldn't know how to monetize the data, but if the market matures, there could easily be the same people behind buying data from Comcast-sized ISPs, creating tiny VPS and VPN providers that don't get any meaningful scrutiny in practice.
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I'm from the only remaining US state without a mandatory seat belt law, New Hampshire. As far as I can tell, we pair off equally with our neighbor to the west, Vermont, in road fatalities[1]. The two states are very similar in geography and population distribution, neither having much in the way of public transportation or large cities.

Regardless of the law, people are wearing seat belts at roughly the same rates. This is to say, at least in my corner of the world--seat belts save lives, but seat belt laws don't. People oppose these laws on philosophical grounds; the role of the state, acceptable levels of police discretion, etc.. Policy is messy, but at minimum must accommodate the values of those it represents.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
Can I just sell my data? I really don't care and not sure why everyone is freaking out over this. I also believe most tech muggles don't care either. Also is not most of our data sold by data brokers currently - like your physical address. Not sure what I should worry about with my browsing data...
Alice is a neat 3D gui based game programming suite targeted at youth.

http://www.alice.org/index.php
> Using Chrome would cost me a lot. Both because it is sub-par for my usage patterns and because it feels bad to support it.

Doesn't change the fact that your analogy is flawed.

> Last I checked whey will still be miles ahead of every other browser.

Vimperator maybe, but that stopped working a while back.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/mozil...

Still, they're moving. And why do you think they're moving?

> Pwn2own is the equivalent of lining up cars and inviting people to bring their preferred weapon to test the armour.

I agree with you, but I was responding to your comment about a sniper rifle. I'd argue that pwn2own is the equivalent of using a sniper rifle - and Chrome seems to have dealt with it well.

> In any case: Yes, the safer the better, but we need to stop this "nothing but the most secure" mindset because in the end it only results in a Chrome monoculture which I think is worse in every way, even securitywise.

Like I said, I'd been using Firefox for years because I honestly think it's a better browser. That doesn't excuse how far behind they are security wise though. They seem to have the resources with the companies they've been acquiring but IMO they (the resources) are misplaced.

I much prefer open source, and on my home Arch Machine I use Chromium but at work I'm required to use Windows so I use Chrome because otherwise it's awkward.

Once Mozilla gets sandboxing implemented I will be moving back to Firefox.
No benchmark? I don't really think this hold against Redshift.
Upvoted, asuming you know what your talking about. I hope you do ...

Just one thing, photonic computing, is there more to it? I mean are there ideas how that might actually work?
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In the abstract no but we currently are heading to a scenario in which inequality reaches extreme levels.
A United States of Europe would be great, but what you're proposing is insane.

First of all, it won't work at all without military conflict, and from there it's World War 3.

Based on language alone, the EU would self-destruct so quickly you won't believe it if one EU country went to war against another, especially for the purpose of maintaining the "union".
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So it was overvalued and is now coming back to earth. Good.
This is manual curation for now! (non-technical) All pulled from the kindle sites of the books on Amazon. You can see all the user highlights and they give you the most popular ones on the side

Yes I have a huge list of books to go through but as its manual and time-consuming I thought I'd test it out like this.
There's just little demand

As Henry Ford apocryphally said, 'If I had asked people what they wanted they would have told me to bring them a faster horse.'
I think this is a funny project.. but the description is totally exaggerated:

> The computer queries the universe and uses an algorithm to objectively calculate the best art for any given moment in time. The human executes the commands.

How is this objectively at all? The artist creates an algo and picks some stuff to query. All the artist does is adding another (subjectively formed) layer to the process.

> The computer's creative process is computational, and therefore unbiased.

:-/

> How do you know it actually produces the "best" art? Good art pulls meaning from the chaos of the universe, and also reflects the artist's unique point of view. The computer rigorously combines these two factors in its programming, optimizing them to produce the best art.

I find this very arrogant to say...

> There's nothing in principle that stops a machine from creating art. Even, better art than any person could do.

I don't think this project would be an example.
Don't get where people get the idea that Wales are agitating for leaving the Union. Wales is more legally entrenched than any other of the constituent countries of the UK and also majority voted to leave the EU.
> Specifically, once a task formerly thought to characterize artificial intelligence becomes routine — like the aforementioned chess-playing, or Go, or a myriad of other taken-for-granted computer abilities — we no longer call it artificial intelligence.

You're using games as an example. The gaming industry has been using the term AI consistently for a very long time. You may actually want to look to them for a better definition than you're getting from the whims of some undefined "we".
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> I'd much rather live somewhere with a smaller economy where there's actually a mechanism to remove those in power.

Like?
By 'divisive' I mean having the effect on HN that decapitation has on a chicken.
Is this really the same culture at this point?
Your solution, while logical and seemingly full of common sense, is orthagonal to the regulatory and statutory solutions put in place in this country.
My thought was that this is just so America, to explain the weight of something by comparing to the weight of a gun, but reading your comment I'm pretty sure that the author intended this mental image.
Of course, but Sykes-Picot is a good demonstration of the importance of considerate borders.
20 years ago people said the same thing about Java applets opening the web to hordes of developers without HTML experience. Doesn't make the result good.
Germany has most of that business.
Given that 1 in 10,000 people in NYC are in wheelchairs,

I really think it would be orders of magnitude more cost effective for the government to pay for disabled persons cab fares than to make public transit accessible. Has anyone run the numbers?
Of course. Who doesn't have more in common with actual people they've befriended and worked with, as opposed to a nebulous notion of nationality?

But that isn't a basis for political decisions. The fact that you like the people that you're friends with is no reason to be in or out of the EU.

I presume you have friends who aren't from the EU as well, yet surely you do not believe in closer integration with those countries?

I have a similarly diverse group of friends, but it makes very little difference to what I think politically. For one, I doubt they'll be kicked out, but also I can't make decisions about politics based on a few individuals I happen to know.
This is the opposite of terrifying for me.

My presumption with any technology is that there are security risks and issues. What is more concerning to me is the absence of information about these risks and issues.

Apple had a nice time for years while Microsoft acted as a honeypot for crackers. The absence of published problems for Apple products was merely an indication that crackers and researchers were not attempting to poke holes into the Apple ecosystem.
Nothing, but the 2 parent comments both make strange statements which leads me to believe there is a misunderstanding.

> If you are containerizing your stateless app, where do you store the connection pool? I suppose you could setup another container as a TCP proxy that can maintain persistent connections and then connect to redis through the proxy?

Containerizing doesn't prevent you from having a connection pool, but PHP doesn't allow you to have a proper connection pool regardless. I believe there is a misunderstanding on containers here.

> What do you mean by "containerizing"? Unless you restart app instances for every single request, I don't see how connection pooling is an issue. Just putting a worker in a container doesn't stop it from keeping a connection open.

This comment corrects the misconception about "containerizing", but then overlooks that PHP is effectively restarted per request.
>I'm confused. Is PowerShell 'recognized' as a shell?

Yes, given the definiton of shell being a user interface to an operating system, typically command line, powershell is considered a shell and can function as one. For example, while many think of windows servers as being all gui, newer versions of windows (server) can be run entirely in cli mode with no gui via powershell, in which supposedly any management technique normally done through gui can be done through the ps cli.

The main difference between nix shells and powershell is that the nix shells are text based, while powershell is object based due to it's .NET core.

As a sysadmin who uses both bash and powershell, I have to say the more recent versions of powershell are quite powerful and a fresh breath of air to use in the normally stale windows world. Of course, I tend to use pywinrm to remotely run ps commands so I don't too dirty touching the tainted MS ecosystem. (That's my way of saying that while powershell is nice and a large improvement over batch command line files, bash is still the better one due to the underlying unix philosophy and the GNU ecosystem)
Yes, you're being unfair. 'Solving problems people genuinely face' is never going to result in innovation, because it's maintenance for the existing paradigm. You are not going to find brilliant new ideas by pulling support tickets.

Take the most innovative thing you can't think of and then apply the same arguments to it. It's easy to see what problems things solve after they come into existence, less so in advance. That's why innovation involves the risk of failure.
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You've never heard of people relying on withdrawal? It was still pretty popular when I was in college three years ago, usually when the woman got nasty side effects from hormonal BC.
Risk assessment of probability of an incident and impact of an incident.

Chernobyl happened. Fukushima happened. If a similar incident happened at the plant just north of NYC, the evacuation zone would include hundreds of thousands or millions of people.
I don't think I buy this as a viable alternative. The first problem that pops into my head is transportation for disabled people who are visiting the city or that commute in for whatever reason. Providing them access to the disabled-taxi-program is problematic.
Would there also be interest paid for time lost in traffic? New York roads are tight and always busy, something the public transit system is supposed to workaround.
I wonder if we could turn this around a bit by making pharmaceuticals cheaper. Not to drug the masses rather that much of modern pharmaceuticals are made by automation today, however generally one type per 'line' in the factory. What I'm wondering is if you could make a factory which could make what ever drugs you currently need, whether it is from aspirin to antibiotics to chemotherapy drugs. No spoilage from drugs being on the shelf too long, local (so fast) delivery, an excellent aid to resilience from disaster (shorter logistics nightmares).
There was nothing ad hominem in my previous post, but now here is some: I'm talking about nuclear industry, but it seems you are talking about captain planet or teenage mutant turtles...
Mutations happen regardless of nuclear spills. They are a driving force of evolution.

Now more seriously:

The human race would easily survive without seafish. Maybe in smaller numbers, but for example in the inlands people eat much less seafish, as they don't have seas nearby ;) A century ago not much seafish was available in the inlands, yet the European inland population was comparable in numbers to the current population.

Radioactive materials were in the ground already, and have been solved into water, which people drank, and had comparable life expectency (shorter, but also due to numerous other factors).

Poisoning the wells and ocean is not very good, especially for business, as many people are irrationally afraid of radiation, and even suspicion of possibility of radiation hurts just as much as actual hazardous contamination to the sales of a product. Apart from that it would truly cause large economic problems, as large areas would have to be excluded from agricultural use, yet nothing like extinction would happen. Even after Chernobyl some people are still alive in Eastern Europe. Even animals live mostly happily in the zone...
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These steps are only run for initial creation of the container image. Running the container itself is only the last step from that file: Executing the node binary.
You should read up on Browns Ferry Nuclear in Alabama. BFN has three reactors but one was taken out of service for decades because an engineer was checking for leaks on a hose using a flame and set the insulation on fire.

Also they had a fin on one of the turbines of another reactor break off and it the reactor wall in the mid-2000s.
Why would you vote for an organisation you never wanted to be a part of in the first place? How does exercising your right to vote (or not) indicate that? Wanting to leave and voting are separate, but coupled, factors.

I always have voted out of duty as a citizen to vote, but it always felt like a waste of time. The MEPs are unknowns you never see, and the proceedings are so divorced from regular politics that they seem like they serve little practical purpose in representing our views. Particularly when the people you are voting for are then members of supranational blocs with their own agendas. It's so far removed from the individual voter that it seems like they could do whatever they wanted and claim a mandate for it. I don't think democracy is particularly effective at this scale.
Yes you can since it's a Postgres extension; any frontend tool that interfaces with Postgres, interfaces with TimescaleDB. One issue is you will see our "private" schemas where we store things, but you can just ignore those (or play with them at your own peril :) ).

Source: TimescaleDB developer
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Suppose an advanced AI suggest that the majority of people can improve their life standard and live happier with some changes, but those changes would cause grieve to a tiny amount of very powerful people. That is suppose that with very general assumptions and valid arguments the AI is able to simulate a broad range of futures in all of which the change is a considerable improvement worldwide except for that 0.001 % of the population that have a huge amount of money and power. Also suppose that the most advance AI in our planet is financed by that very rich group, could be possible that the rich group would make some change to avoid reaching the good conclusion?
I'd love to sell my own personal information. For one, it'd be nice to see a cut of the cash changing hands.
If only we hadn't seen this pattern many times before. The first time I watched them do it was with Watson back in the early days of OS X.
The thing with accessibility elevators is it just not people in wheel chair that benefit from them. Elderly people, people that have sports injury and can't climb stairs, having groceries, or kids and strollers etc, etc...

Even in the sidewalks, the lips of the sidewalks that slope towards the street in intersections, it is just not people with wheelchairs that benefit from them, but anybody with carrying a stroller, rolling luggage for a trip, etc...

When I had a soccer injury 10 years ago, for one month straight I couldn't walk without some major pain. I had to plan my trips according to places that I could access, and it gives you some insight into people that are really disabled.
Because the more someone knows about you, the more power they have to harm or coerce you.
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edit - thought we were still talking about a simple low wall or gate, not the floor to ceiling glass in the GP post. leaving below for posterity..

> on the order of >$1M per platform

That's insanity! Over $1M for something every amusement park has for every ride? Lemme guess, these one have to be engineered to the point of 'impossible to fail' and installed by the employees of municipal cronies at 3x fair wages?

Talk about perfect being the enemy of good...
Up to 155 miles on one fare, if you have 14 hours, don't mind 54 transfers, and, one supposes, really don't like yourself

http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2015/09/a-man-rode-the-long...
So this solution also requires operators able to stop the train at a particular point. Training is expensive!
You could have "service stations" where people who want to do service aka do good could go. Wheel chair people could wait there for someone who was going to ride the subway anyway to walk past and, wanting to do good in the world, help the disabled person get on.
Hydro is also terrible for river ecology. Egypt gained a multi-billion dollar fertiliser industry (that didn't exist before) after they added dams to the Nile.

Dams hold back silt and sediment essential to farm land and despite everything you learned about fish ladders and salmon, they don't really work as well as the power companies say.
The time you spent writing this app is probably good experience for writing other things though. And of course someone who's using nano or pico as their editor might find this useful.
> the Commission is put in place by the Council

It is not. Even if you want to dispute the fact that the Commission President is de facto chosen by the voters and elected by the EP, the European Council has zero role in the selection of the remaining commissioners, who are nominated by the member states in consultation with the Commission President.

I'm not sure how you can live with the British system, though, if this is such a problem for you, as it is even worse in that regard.
How so? Order Uber/Lyft ride, send a CC receipt to NYC gov with a disability proof. Get money back.

Any complications I am missing?
I really enjoyed the frustration of the article's author in trying to attribute Ted Chiang's writing to his personal life or history.

We as humans seem to have this unceasing tendency to essentialize -- to believe that everything we do comes from deep-seated psychological needs. We project every action onto some event from years past with a parent, a lover, a friend.

I feel like this is borne out of a desire to believe that behavior is deterministic. That if only we too had undergone the experiences of the person who we're reading about, we too would be that acclaimed sci-fi writer, or famous entrepreneur, or asshole president. It excuses, to some extent, the fact that we are not that person.

But sometimes that's not the case. Sometimes we just build shit for fun. It doesn't all have to be us coming to terms with our distant father.

Zuckerberg, of all people, once had a quote vis-a-vis The Social Network (can't seem to find it) that basically amounted to the idea that they had to make the entirety of Facebook be about his rejection by a girl because the idea of people building something cool for its own sake doesn't make a good movie.

What's interesting for me is I feel like this armchair psychologizing we all do is getting worse. I don't have any evidence to back this up, just a feeling -- as we're exposed to more people's behaviors, we fall back to essentialist attributions of that behavior more and more.