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>How many more ways of reinventing basic programming-language design is the JS community going to come up with before we realize that the emperor has no clothes?

Yes, JS was a rushed language that was then left to rot for 15-odd years. Unfortunately it's the language that powers the web, runs everywhere, and (along with HTML/CSS) is the only thing that all the big guys agree on.

It's getting better but it is what it is.
The Dell that I got several years (3-4) ago that this one replaced was WUXGA. This one (an XPS13) is light and has more battery life, and is faster and all, but I do miss that screen a lot. More pixels == better, with a bias for vertical pixels.
And if they expand their business and go into more markets and become a technology company like Amazon (which started by only selling physical books online) or Google (who started with just a search engine), then how would the decision to not sell be viewed?

Or if he did sell and used the money to go on a cocaine bender and died in a hotel pool from an overdose - would selling have been the best thing for him?

Do you see how pointless "what if" scenarios actually are? There are too many variables to properly account for - you can't just change one variable (like a decision) and assume everything else turns out exactly as you would like.
AFAIR it does use Bing for translation, I'm pretety sure that I saw the "translation provided by Bing" note after translating a Facebook comment the other day.
I learned about doing a hard refresh on Twitter (I didn't know about this post). I think it's a big problem, there's lot of users who can't currently access the site.
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Facebook needs to point it's focus back on people and privacy
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Why not make a fake Facebook account? I imagine it could be useful in a number of other similar situations.

(This is a serious question - I imagine there are real reasons why not, I just can't think of any myself apart from inconvenience/general principle).
...and has a larger population of poor people living without access to reasonable medical care.

This is unlikely to affect the stats. Giving poor people access to health care does not improve physical health in any measurable way. It does make them feel better, however.

http://www.nber.org/oregon/
I yearn for a day when fonts look the same across every OS/Browser/Device.
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Wow. Given that the default FB setting is "HTTPS off", you might as well just pass around a note with your FB login + password to everybody else in the business.
I am absolutely sure they can enter almost anything not behind solid air gap.
So, since FB "owns" the user, I wonder if that means this service is compliant with CALEA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALEA] or whatever the most current version is. It was a mess to deal with back in the early 2000's while operating WiFi networks.

If FB is not compliant, maybe the government will make an example out of FB when they are unable to comply with wiretap requests. IIRC, the fines could be upwards of $20k/day of non-compliance after receiving a warrant for a specific user's data.
HumansTXT is not just a joke though. It's like movie credits for programmers.

Google was quick to add it, though I'd hoped they would have enhanced it a bit by now. At least it hasn't washed away.

Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220
True, but the Mormon uptime is hard to beat, right? Don't they have disaster recovery and failover built-in?
The IRA green book may not be a reliable source of information on this. Wouldn't it give the same advice even if giving up information in reality usually made the torture stop? The book's goal there is to get prisoners to not talk, not to help prisoners have the least unpleasant experience in captivity.

I'd expect that the captor's expectation is that prisoners have a non-zero finite amount of useful information, and that in many cases the captor has some idea of how much and what kind of information the prisoner has. If the prisoner does not give up information, wouldn't the incentive for the captors to be to keep torturing because they are sure that there is something to get?

Strategically, it should be best for the prisoner to give up information that matches what the torturers were looking for, so that it is plausible that when the prisoner says he has no more that he is telling the truth.
How does xoom.com compares with Paypal?
I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook gets to access to data about who purchases what and when

I would sell all my transaction history for $5/month. Why should I care if their ads are getting better when I never pay attention to ads?
I am happy that Apple doesn't need to encroach on user privacy to make money, atleast for now. All this giving away stuff for free and then storing private information forever to drive ads is getting very annoying.
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I bet it would be an awesome experience to view those with an Oculus Rift. Even moreso in high resolution: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2014/01/oculus-rift
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It would explain the emergence of a gap caused by other factors that harm USA but previously canceled out by the factors noted that harmed e.g. Europe.
Coming soon: captive portals that pretend to be Facebook WiFi and ask for your Facebook username and password.
Ripple is actually a generalized network flow problem, in which the flow through an edge can be multiplied by an exchange rate when converting between currencies. As a result, regular network flow algorithms don't apply. There's also another issue with using a minimum cost criterion, since the costs are in different currencies and it's not clear how to put them on the same footing.
> We consider a small subset of our icons to be critical to the user's experience but we don’t think that way about our font or the other icons.

Why don't you consider your font to be critical? In my experience, with Safari, if you use a custom font, text won't render at all until the font has loaded.
'Draconian' does not mean 'excessive'. It means stringent, severe, brutally strict.
This is one of the things that really saddens me about the world we live in - we can't have nice things, because everything is being optimized for the average use case, and average people just don't care much about anything, especially quality.
Then what do you think of this one: http://sonetin.com/humans.txt
:)
Well, I wouldn't say drinking coffee or tea is a health benefit. Especially coffee.

I'd say it boils down to how often you drink, serving size, and how much sugar.
In the sense that it violates a social contract? That is, WIFI access in exchange for repping this spot to your friends in however minor a fashion? In the sense of behavior that you as a service provider wish to prevent? Yeah, in all those senses, it is "abuse."
This is also my experience. Almost everybody doing a PhD that I have met is doing so out of personal interest in the subject area. I think pretty much everybody understands that as a career path academia sucks, but they do it because they love the research they are doing (well, most of the time, from time to time you've got to hate it ;)). People doing a PhD generally seem to understand that this is not the path to making a lot of money, and most of them seem qualified enough to do something in industry if they wanted to.
Because it's more satisfying to be a jerk towards someone who can do nothing about the situation, under the guise of principle.
As well as lack of exercise and increased risk of accident is the problem of air pollution, which kills a significant number of people.
Also if you look at the page, you can see you can change who you share the check-in with. It's just like Facebook app integrations: you can switch the share settings to "only me" if you want a private check-in if you're worried about spamming others.
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No, I meant because the impression I get is that in general undergraduate courses aren't specialised e.g. you choose whatever courses you want as long as the "credits" add up to the requirements for a major, versus doing every course in one subject. The overwhelming impression I've got talking with american students is that they had to have a couple of years doing a "masters" at the start of the PhD, which effectively caught them up to the equivalent level of a full time course in the subject.

Maybe this is just Physics, I don't know.
US needs to step up its effort to export lower life expectancy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_...
https://www.google.com/search?q=draconian Has the word "excessive" in the definition. I think it's at a minimum connoted in most applications of the word. Anyway, it doesn't matter how it's defined, I was only trying to understand whether the OP meant "excessive" or just "something I don't like."
While I generally say that I don't give a lot about people writing me business letters as persons, I tend to remember them better. Joel -> Buffer is a connection I have. It still kind of creeps me out, because I don't have a personal attachment to Joel, but I instantly know who is writing there.

That isn't really news, though, but a valid and tried strategy. e.g. in Germany, there is a company that famously has all spots spoken by the boss himself since the 90s. They are horrible and defy all rules of a good radio spot, but they stick and are very successful. The company is suddenly attached to a persona that I can just recall immediately.

Let's troll the (southern)-germans: "Seitenbacher Müsli" (you've got it in your head, do you?)
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yeah, you gotta figure superAgentJackBauer has a caloric burn rate of at least 5000 calories.
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Forget about logging in for wifi. This is a direct competitor to Nomi.

Facebook will now know whenever your MAC Address walks by a storefront with one of these routers, regardless if you have an account. For those who have installed the app (the majority of the country) FB will be able to match the MAC ID to your account.

In addition to simply foot traffic walking by the store, the router will track information on when you are actually in the store, how long you stayed there, and how frequently you visit.

Eventually those with FB on their phone will have ads pushed to them when they pass one of these routers. I imagine it wouldn't just be for stores with the routers but those within the immediate vicinity.

Of course none of the data collected will be shared with the storeowners until they are sold the ads by facebook.
You can't possibly extrapolate from 5 years of data to impact on life expectancy.

Increased access to prenatal care has a very clear correlation with reducing early births (and that Oregon study focused narrowly on improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol or glycated hemoglobin. Reducing infant mortality isn't in there.).

Edit: Also, how much impact do you think earlier diabetes intervention will have in a 2 year period? I can at least conceive of earlier intervention having some impact after 5 or 10 years.
I understand. You're completely right about Sidekiq.

For RabbitMQ - you can have jobs persisted to disk on all nodes in the cluster which is like a backup. And of course transactional messaging is a problem that needs special attention.
They are taking a beating on their facebook page over the last few days: https://www.facebook.com/nest?filter=2

Whoever decided to push an automatic (and faulty!) update to a consumer heating controller (during the worst US cold snap in years) should be fired.
In the absence of high infant mortality, it isn't clear to me why median and mean for lifespan would diverge in any meaningful way. In the presence of high infant mortality, the mean would just be lower than the median: how would that be particularly informative?
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The answer is that we're farther away from full employment than we think we are in the US. We think we're off by some 5% rounding error we can attribute to friction or economic cycles, but we're actually off by 20-25% (include: discouraged workers, our gigantic prison population, et al). For most people, extended schooling (for those whose parents can afford it) is a way to replace the marginal, vulnerable years with something that doesn't involve the stigma of being unemployed. For science PhD programs, there's even (meager) pay.

Why are there so many law students who don't give a shit about the law? MBA-school students who just want to network and drink but don't care about business fundamentals? For these same reason as there are those surplus, academically unemployable PhDs. For most people, the alternative isn't "$800k seed round". It's no job or non-college job or some other situation that makes graduate school a better option.

Of course, this floods graduate programs with people who shouldn't be there, often don't care to be there, and clog up the job market for everyone else with that degree.
Will definitely check it out. Thanks!
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Thanks for all your kind words. I think quite a few bits & pieces of your advice apply to general living as well, and I feel a lot of them are already present in my current life.

I like your dome! Here's one I did a while ago:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/stjoes/dome/
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it works for a lot of cases, e.g. buy a book and get other books recommended, not so well for rarer purchases like laptops or phones.
Yeah, I have this issue too, though I'm using stable Chrome, I thought that if this is a bug it must be already reported, the funny thing is that I tried to google it and all I got was some articles about web-fonts and icon fonts rendering problems.
GitHub's growth has always fascinated me. This article cleared up a lot of questions.
Actually, it might very well happen that these Wifi networks all have the same SSID, which would likely make most devices automatically connect to them.

Even if they don't, they only ever need one connection to link your device's MAC to your username, and then detect it without ever connecting.
Our lecturer told us that the problem was initially considered simultaneously by Russians trying to optimise the rail transport of stuff from USSR back to Russia and Americans trying to work out the cheapest way to destroy that network. Not sure if it's true, but it helps me think about the problem a lot.

Edit: I clicked the link, he used them exact slides. That set of slides comes up a lot, they're great.
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What you say is true, but don't forget that most people have rudimentary at best cooking skills and haven't learnt how to use a shopping list.

Combine that with misleading labels and massive advertising budgets of ready meals and it's easy to understand how people fall into the trap.
Median and mean could and most likely do diverge because poor people live significantly shorter lives than rich/middle class people. Europe in general is more equal than the U.S.
Is this really any more of a risk than the code that parses and renders the SVG? Or the PNG for that matter (there have been issues with image libraries in the past)?
The mean would give the same quantity of information but biased (in this case) by the infant mortality rate, which probably should be examined seperately. The median is the preferred statistical standard.

What you are looking for is a distribution of life expectancies per country.
Now that my kids are out of the house this sounds like it would be very rewarding. I'll have to chat with the spouse about something like this.
Nope. You're free to use whatever you want on your own pages (Google Analytics, Gauges, etc).
>Fonts shouldn't be used as icons

The problem is that fonts are icons, in that they are arbitrary collections of curves, shapes, and symbols, which communicate meaning only to the end-user, and are highly dependent on the end-users understanding of what the thing is that they are clicking, will do.

An icon, a font symbol, a glpyh, a ligature - these are all mere lines in the sand. You want to make another file-format with that, kid?
Oh man, you mean we have to rely on 4G LTE connections instead of using the free wifi provided for us? My email may be marginally slower- I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy ice cream again :-(
I think that it might explain part of the divergence. There are a couple of obvious reasons that the U.S. might trail the OECD -- the greater number of deaths due to higher car accident rates and a higher murder rate, as well as a well known disparity in the life expectancies of Americans of primarily European descent and those of people of primarily African descent.

I'm still trying to figure out how to say this. I'm wondering if the "natural" life expectancy in the U.S. has always trailed the "natural" life expectancy of the rest of the OECD (judged collectively, anyway) but because of some systemic effects in Europe this natural disparity was offset for some decades. The effect might have been something that gradually faded, exposing the natural life expectancy differential.

I don't want to overstate things here -- there are some clear candidates for things that might have gone wrong with health in the United States in the last couple of decades that we want to look at. But I suspect this is not the only thing we're seeing in this data.
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It certainly does make a difference for infant mortality, which is alleviated with proper pre-natal and post-natal care: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~baileymj/Bailey_Goodman-Bacon... ("Improved access to medical care resulting from the desegregation of hospitals and the initiation and expansion of Medicaid significantly reduced
infant mortality (Almond, Chay and Greenstone forthcoming; Goodman-Bacon 2013; Currie and Gruber 1996b). During the 1980s, acute neonatal care (neonatal intensive care units) helped less healthy infants survive. Improvements in access to medical care also reduced the mortality of older children, especially mortality due to common childhood diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis (11 percent of all childhood deaths). Medicaid coverage played an important role for poor children as it increased care for conditions easily treatable with antibiotics (Goodman-
Bacon 2013, Currie and Gruber 1996a).").

Of the various public health concerns, infant mortality is one of those that are most directly addressable with medical care directed at the poor. Improved access to health services won't get a poor person to change his diet, but can be very effective in catching potential complications from pregnancy, treating infections in neonates, etc.

Also, the study you linked-to doesn't support the claim you're making ("Giving poor people access to health care does not improve physical health in any measurable way."). The study looked at just three physical health outcomes, after two years: blood pressure, cholesterol, and glycated hemoglobin (a measure related to blood sugar level control). These are lifestyle-related measures unlikely to be affected in merely two years.

Moreover, the study is inappropriately designed to test the conclusion you assert. First, it is based on giving a random sampling of people access to Medicaid ("In 2008, the state of Oregon drew names by lottery for its Medicaid program for low-income, uninsured adults."). But to address lifestyle diseases, you need to build a culture of intervention over a long period of time. You can't do this in just a few years targeting a few members of the community. Second, the study doesn't measure the impact of "access to health care" but rather access to Medicaid. The non-control group still received healthcare services, they just did so through the emergency room and by doctors' visits that went unpaid ("Medicaid decreased the probability of having an unpaid medical bill sent to a collection agency by 25 percent.").
I can't wait for the next generation Richard Linklater to make an entire movie using this technology.
The font aliasing is awful
Then just create another one when it gets disabled.
SVG rendering should properly be paired with proper use of the dejeur hardware accelerations of choice, and for that I'm personally finding various fringes of the MOAI community of much interest, as it puts SVG into a fabulous playground.
No way, wouldn't ever happen. In the US this is called a coerced confession and it is inadmissible in court as evidence, as the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Mississippi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Mississippi

The confession would never be allowed, however if there were other evidence to implicate him, such as blood in his house, that would certainly still be admissible in court and enough to convict him. If however, there was no other evidence AT ALL, than he walks free, and he gets to sue to police.

There wouldn't ever be a movement to stop police from torturing suspects. This is generally frowned upon, even if they are guilty.