skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California and Washington are two examples of why I disagree: Both have direct initiative and referendum by the people and both reserve the "power of the purse" to the people, in addition to the legislature, through those methods.

In both states, moreso in California than Washington, popular initiatives that have passed overwhelmingly have shown that We The People are horrible at money. Washington's mandatory-$30-car-registration (that didn't last long, but long enough and with lingering consequences), imposed statewide, flattened the Puget Sound region's public transportation and road systems (ohai, toll roads). California's Proposition 13, well, we know what that did to the state budget.

I happen to be one of the people who thinks that government can be and is a force for good, when used appropriately. Ham-handed direct democracy through "bumper sticker" campaigns--like this would turn into--is no way to govern. "Defund the NSA" could be up there right alongside "abolish the EPA." We elect people to represent us, we need to be more resilient about voting out people who don't represent us at a common level.
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so it all started at the Box Jelly co-working space :)
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If you use ImageAlpha before ImageOptim and reduce the colors, you will get even smaller files. Lot's of PNGs will not contain many colors anyway.
My son was converting binary to decimal when he was 5, found (x+1)^2 = x^2 + 2x + 1 by himself at the age of 6. Now he's interested in logarithmic calculations, doing very well on Chesstempo, learns languages using Duolingo and loves reading heavy books on his Kindle at the age of 7.

On the other hand, he never interested in any kind of sports (only exception is, thanks to Strider balance bikes, he's good at cycling). He's having trouble building relations with other kids around his age, sometimes hits or creatively frustrates them to cover his lack of physical skills.

Any parent can find billions of great things online for the gifted child. It would be great if it was that easy for my child to deal with the real world.
"Human progress to a more empathical and overall better society has been constant."

Part of me desperately wants to agree with that, but then I remember that the world probably looked a pretty decent place in 1913 and look how downright awful and risky the next ~75 years turned out to be.

There is no fundamental law of civilization that guarantees that things will only get better. Having said that, I think that on balance things will keep getting better - but only because a lot of people fight for those improvements based upon observations of where our societies are going wrong and putting up a fight to bring them back on course.
sorry to spoil the fun, but metafilter's SEO / search performance was broken way before the 40% drop.

http://replycam.com/i/MetaFilter_layoffs__Why_has_Google_for...

where is the growth, man? and i don't mean the dropoff. the dropoff is just, you know, change. google changes, all the time, user behaviour changes, user expectation changes, the way google treats sites changes, the internet changes. so yes, 40% less traffic via google organic search happens. you don't have any "right" to google traffic, there are a lot of sites out there.

but the thing that seems to be really broken is the "lack of growth" before the dropoff and after it.

SEO overall has these business cases

* a) if we add x% more landingpages to our site, we gain y% more trafﬁc.
* b) if we add x% more content to y% of our landingpages, we gain z% more trafﬁc.
* c) if other sites point x% more links to our landingpages, we gain y% more trafﬁc.
* d) if we make the user experience of our site better, our traffic gets more sustainable.

as metafilter is a quite popular site with an active community, they should at least do a) and b) quite well, probably doesn't have an issue with c)

as there is and was not growth, then there is probably something rotten going on on the platform level.

some issues from a 5 min check i have outlined here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7770414

additionally they seem to completely disregard mobile https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=... and missing out on the probably most important market like ever.

so basically before firing their staff they should have listen to a decent SEO (and implemented some changes) and / or mobile guy.

tl;dr: if your have a popular site with lots and lots of content, but you don't see (organic search) growth then your site is broken, even before google turns of some of your traffic because you know, google.

p.s.: i would love a look into meta-filters google webmaster tools
Their biggest error by a very large margin is adding a camera to the device.
I agree that gamers mostly don't care, but referencing the stock doesn't support your argument.

First of all, most stocks have appreciated significantly, the stock market is at all time highs.

Second, EA sales do not correlate to the stock price increase, nor do profits (you can wait for the stock crash accordingly). Their PE ratio is basically between off the charts and negative. Their sales haven't increased in six years: they did $4 billion in sales in fiscal 2008, they did $3.8 billion in fiscal 2013.

Why is it up so much? Because investors are frequently irrational, sentiment tends to go to extremes.
> I personally f.i. enjoyed the from: to: keywords in Google Maps search. That feature disappeared and probably the majority of users wouldn't use those anyway.

I still use that feature every day. I have a smart keyword setup so that I just type:

maps from LAX to San Francisco

into the URL bar and get taken straight to a Google Maps page showing me that route [1]. Forgive me if I've misunderstood you and you're talking about something else, but this feature still exists. AFAIK I'm using the latest version of Google maps.

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview?q=from+lax+to+san+fran...
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Since compressor.io is down we're shamelessly recommending https://kraken.io instead.

We invest very heavily with dedicated infrastructure (dual-CPU hexacores) and provide unparalleled optimization and compression for both lossy and lossless options. We have a serious API and bulk upload and download options. Build-in CDN (SSD-based) integration is coming within a few weeks.
The Danger Hiptop was an incredible device. At a time when RIM basically thought the web was a useless feature on a mobile device, Danger built an amazing mobile browser (discussed in the article) that wouldn't be matched until the iPhone. Instead of a handful of limited text-based WAP sites, the Hiptop rendered full desktop sites and did a pretty darn good job of making them usable on a mobile device.

I still miss that General Magic bunny though.
How about converting this viewer through Emscripten using asm.js. Would be interesting to see performance comparison with pdf.js :)
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Persistent structures do not map well with how computers work in reality.
Yes. I cannot remember what it was called but I definitely remember this. Was it blue translucent? I want to say it was made by Casio but my googling is turning up blank.
I just use a 16GB Mac laptop and have a 48GB non-mac workstation at home, and bigger RAM stuff in colo. What I really want is an office with 10GE on nLayer to the colo or something.
I would be interested in the other way around, as well.

Could I add XCode to Steam on a Mac and then stream that on my main Desktop?

I know I can hook up my MacBook to an external keyboard and monitors but I have a very... integrated setup for my main Windows Desktop and hooking up my MacBook with those monitors, keyboard would be quite a hassle.

This way, I could keep it on my couch table and still be able to work on XCode on my big Desktop monitor.
You know how the moon looks HUGE when it is low on the horizon? That is just perspective, but you should write on the moon then. Your brain does this built in Zoom thing when it has something to scale against, and you could use that to your advantage.

Rather than smoothing the surface to reduce shadows, Why not write in a color other than black? I'm thinking a laser in Green would work well and would contrast against black and white quite well.

More authoritative, and fun http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
Goodbye data-binding hell Object.observe() lands in Chrome 36 beta.
Things can take a turn for the worse, but it world will recover for it. Sooner or later.

I think climate change is our biggest threat, bigger than NSA, Russia dick waving and War on * combined. The longer we ignore it or pretend its not our fault the longer will it take for us/world to recover.

EDIT: By us I don't necessarily think humanity, but the environment overall. I hope humanity will survive, but I'm not deluding myself.
It's true that if your browser and websites supported SRP-EC-Scrypt, you would know that they stored things "securely". However, this won't solve the problem of people using weak passwords and people using the same password for different websites. If you use strong passwords and don't reuse them, you already know your risks.

As for your second point, I don't understand it. Do you mean, with the help of SRP, you can store some sensitive data on server, which won't be available to this server, but will be available to user? What's the use of it? This sounds strangely similar to this idea: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25721

> We need to change our trust models. I trust eBay as an organisation to offer me a service. I don't trust the web stack or their servers.

Then passwords don't matter, because you assume that attackers already can do everything with your eBay account.
i know.. I did not know how to describe it because the idea came to me playing 2048 because you make those same gestures.
Sorry
Word Lens is a killer app.
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True, but on order to be really useful, an ARM option would be needed. Just think, a 30 dollar RaspberryPi with a bluetooth dongle popped in the back of your TV and you will be able to play any of your Windows games.
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That is the point. If Foxit opened it up then they deserve some credit. Otherwise the web is going to publish this as another Google PR without acknowledging their work.
Let's see:

Cowboy uses try/catch because even with supervisors, if the child crashes enough, the supervisor will eventually crash too! LYSE talks about using try catch in the error kernel.

> db communicators. Can't crash. Very little code without bugs. This is one kernel

DB connections most certainly can go down. I do know a thing or two about that:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/04/27/an-erlang-postgres-dri...

In any event, I think this is an under-documented part of Erlang: how to go beyond just letting everything crash, and design the whole system.
This probably gives you no better compression than using a CLI tool or something like imageoptim. But where this wins is in the presentation. If you're a lay-person, if you see this, you see magic. You get to immediately see your file size shrink and get proof with an interactive visual widget.
> Correct. This is a strength and a weakness. I was enamored to Smalltalk early on (back in 95 when I learned it in a course) for this very reason. But then the Internet was happening, the world of computing became a lot more heterogeneous, and the idea of a mostly uniform world of computing mostly faded away

I don't think it was the world of computing becoming more heterogeneous, it was more the desire of the industry majors to push their own backward technologies.

What prevented Smalltalk from being used as the tool for developing web pages instead of Java, other than Sun wanting Java to proliferate by making it free, and IBM and the other Smalltalk developers messing up Smalltalk? And today we have Oracle threatening Java by insisting that copying of APIs is infringing.

What prevented the Smalltalk interface from becoming the browser interface as well as its main development tool? This was the original idea, the original vision the Dynabook vision.

Smalltalk developers should develop it along the lines of Smalltalk/X or Smalltalk/MT and build it all the way up and down as well. Trying to fit it into environments which the industry majors are bent on fragmenting and thwarting in order to buy time put their software, multimedia and storage rental models into place simply won't work.

> Sun bought out the company which developed one the fastest Smalltalk implementations to put their developers into creating Java?

I meant the VM

> Developers are moving on to new things. There is Dart of course (if we are talking about developers of smalltalk), and Kay's VPRI which are attempting to develop the next best thing.

The Dart developer experience will never match the Smalltalk developer experience and VPRI is also building on the crippled Javascript/HTML/DOM foundations.

I can't see why these smart guys don't see that you cannot build on systems which the industry majors are deliberately hobbling in order to buy time to put the rental models into place. They break it and complain that the standards bodies are slowing things down when they and their proxies are the standards bodies.

Smalltalk developers need to knuckle down and get their NPAPI/Pepper/NaCl act together. As that is the only way they can succeed with a browser based act.
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I used to create games for the HipTop, and was invited to those "Danger Developer Days". Really nice people to work with.
More interactive content, and well designed infographics. I've been to a lot of museums around the world, and usually they have a sign next to each object of interest with a short essay. I went to another museum where they had headsets, and you could listen to the content. This never appealed to me. I don't have 8 hours to stand with a headset on, listening to each piece. I also don't have the time or interest to read something that looks like a copy/paste from wikipedia. If I wanted to do this, I'd just stay home and read online. If I want more information on a particular piece, once again, I can read at home on my own time.

Other people seem to feel the same way. The majority of the time I see people glance at a sign, read one or two lines, then keep walking.

Imagine people only have an hour to go through the museum. How can you organize and display the most interesting data for them? Pick out the best facts, and design some eye catching infographics that make them stop in their tracks.

And why not make things more interactive? I'll learn more that way. Quiz me, give me a few multiple choices on a touch screen, and let me guess what period this artifact is from, or how much this particular ship anchor weighs. What about the number of people on the Titanic, or how many were crew, how many were passengers? How many survived? Things like this make people stop. They're walking and they see a question with a few answers. It makes them think, talk about it with the people they're with. You could show the average votes for each answer based on past visitors, etc.
TMobile still has this service, I use it to send messages to the wife if I forget my phone.
"I had an even position on move 19"

I'm not a good player, but I would not call that even. Black's bishops and one of his rooks are tied up, the other rook is locked on row 8 behind his own pieces, and you do not need to be Carlsen to spot white's "knight takes g5" in move 19.
I know. I dont want everything to be in GitHub either. It could even be BitBucket. The point is Google Code is so terrible that i refuse to even look at it for more then a minutes.
Mysterious 'Fairy Circles' Not Explained by Termites, Study Suggests
It's not about minimizing communication, it's about minimizing unnecessary communication and unnecessarily burdensome forms of communication when other forms suffice.

The examples you bring up are excellent examples of when to call a meeting. But those are the exceptions which prove the rule that you should call a meeting when needed, not by default.

Not every new feature or bug fix is so complex that it requires an hour long discussion to plan.
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> It can't do GPS without using your phone's cellular data or a mobile hotspot.

This isn't just a GG problem. This is general Google problem, and something that seems to be growing. Until a year ago I had an old Nokia E5 that could tell you where you were and give you directions to anywhere without being "online". Now I have an Android which refuses to let me use the GPS in anyway unless I am connected to be big G and have given them permission to track me.
It's there to filter people that keep clamoring for return of 'good old ages' (as in ancient Aztecs times). I hate that.
How do you innovate? Did you invent a new algorithm? Or the backend is just using special configurations of open source tools? Compressor.io just did 1% better on an image already optimized with gimp.
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And at present it is NFA-only, no DFA fast path.

But among NFA implementations, the compile-time regular expression engine is unbeatable.
In the past I have worked on a similar type of project but for a large trade show.
After research we found these problems:

The problem with a straight QR code are that non technical people just have no idea what they are or how to use them (just ask your parents or friends).

NFC etc again have the same kind of issue. Non-technical people just dont know how it works (also the fact that only the higher end devices support it).

Personally I would go for one of the two following options after working on something similar.

You could look into an app for the museum. The app will have a QR code reader built in, but you can also offer geolocation. The important thing in this case is to advertise the app everywhere. Also give the museum free wifi so people can download the app.

Or look at an internal WiFi network which only servers your website. If you wanted to get a little more technical you could get the website to allow location (really only works on single floor buildings) to server items close to where you are.
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I agree with you here - if parents invest the time and are able to understand their child's needs it is not too difficult to find enough material online or actually offline.

Taking your story as an example, I take it you are somewhat versed in maths yourself to appreciate what your son has done and probably assisted in the introduction to the subject matter at the time (I am making assumptions here - sorry if that's not correct)

Let's say though your kid is gifted in other areas that you have no personal attachment to - how does one go about kindling that interest? If your kid seems to be great in drawing but you have no clue about the fine arts, how can one add meaningful stimulus to support and encourage further study in that field?
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I think the term of art is "accident de personne." I certainly heard it a few times myself.

The SNCF can be blamed for a lot of things, including subpar service quality, but I don't think they ever tried hiding the nature of those accidents.
isn't that what's supposed to happen with DNT?

If a site relies on such tracking methods, then this seems like exactly what should be happening.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7771333
In this case however, no atmosphere = no shockwave.
> If you use strong passwords and don't reuse them, you already know your risks.

Nobody does this. Geeks who use password management are are an extreme minority, and solutions like LastPass are crock that solve the same problem by papering over infrastructural failings and mean users are never completely free to move.

Anecdotally I believe people typically use a 'good password' for banking etc, and a handful of lazy passwords. Cryptographically speaking, they're all weak of course, but imho people are better off with knowing one or two really good passwords (I used a 12 character mixed case password containing symbols entirely from QWERTY induced muscle memory) and letting their browser deal with derivation for different endpoints.

> Do you mean, with the help of SRP, you can store some sensitive data on server, which won't be available to this server, but will be available to user?

Not SRP specifically. Forget SRP. What I mean is generally that any user public key (whether it was originally derived from a user secret like a password or not) can be used by an organisation for online encryption and authentication and offline decryption, where data can be decrypted by either the organisation using their private key, or by the user using their password.
OK, why are we making it darker? Can't we just LED the place up - sure, it'll require ongoing power, but it must be cheaper and more flexible.

Imagine you did this on Earth and how much you could save over nuclear bombing the place with paint. In fact, we already did it, as a side effect.
Well when you own $100,000 of stock, that's the most you can lose. But vary rarely will ever go down to $0.

With futures contracts and derivatives you can potentially lose infinity dollars.
Are you thinking of the Cybiko?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko
Turns out most people probably don't give a shit and likely won't change their passwords now unless they're forced.
Yes it makes it sound horrible. 0.33% is nothing when speaking of over expenses.

Plus, getting larger train was planned as French Government passed a law for accessibility for the disabled to be applied before 2015 : the distance between the border of the station and the train must not be more than 1cm (horizontally and vertically).

(French source : https://www.facebook.com/cedricingrand/posts/101524737376878...)
There is, just out of reach, a dream of unifying methodology and effectiveness and decent life outside of work - Agile that demands collocation starts to hurt teams that want people with families in central London.

I can almost reach the goal.
$299/day seems kind of steep. Who is this for?
Also available on Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/227380/
Tried a logo; result is smaller but looks like crap.
I wouldn't buy one of those 4WD's with the big TOYOTA lettering on the back. This is comparable to the Apple logo because its going out of its way to be noticed, "look at me, look at me".

Covering up a car's logo with a sticker is obviously not an option, so personally I would avoid those big TOYOTA cars.

Regular car logos aren't so greedy for attention. They don't glow at night, or cover the entire rear panel of the car.

I'm quite surprised that so many people in this industry, and DJs at gigs are happy for the logo to sit there glowing all night on stage. I don't get it, Apple isn't sponsoring your talk or performance.

I guess I'm too optimistic about people caring about keeping a good distance between marketing, capitalism and the expression of ideas and art. To me, those things should remain completely separate.
What is your why?
> "...thereby automagically reducing lobbyism."

Only the visible stuff. Any sufficiently well-resourced organisation can simply adjust its tactics to suit this environment (a Global Active Adversary?). For example, just buy up enough media outlets and adjust the reporting to support your worldview. This probably happens to some extent now but it's probably easier to just keep a lobbyist on hand.
At $299 / day you better be doing content / image caching and not just handing out origin urls.