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> Since when are we, web developers, expected to do the search engines' work for them?!

The Web is a trifecta of HTTP, URLs and hyperlinks. That is the fundamental baseline of what it is to be Web. That's what makes it accessible to anyone with a basic internet connection. With that universality comes an overall improvement in education, which improves the quality of life of people on this planet. Not just your little home-town, but the planet.

The Web isn't an artificial intelligence. Not even in the dark days of RDF, respite with logical reasoning engines and ontologies. That isn't going to be your saviour.

So far, there's nothing in the HTTP spec document that stipulates that it requires a JavaScript capable execution. The Web is built to be extensible, which is why techniques like progressive enhancement are just as fundamental. Assume the trifecta of HTTP, URLs and hyperlinks are present and build with that, then enhance with the litany of technologies and shiny toys built on top of the Web stack. Don't just assume those technical building blocks are always going to be there.

So what you are doing, by requiring JavaScript at the HTTP level, isn't Web Development. It's probably more akin to the death-throes of the last Flash developers struggling to justify their existence.

If you need your site to be indexable and searchable, universal, a JavaScript-dependent solution is sub-standard.

These "post-implementation" Javascript static site scrapers, they emulate progressive enhancement badly, because they are backwards. They are about as qualitatively as useful as building a separate accessible website to your main website, you know for them blind people with their talking browsers. It's a band-aid at the point you realised you did not spend the requisite amount of time understanding the environment in which your "website" runs.

And, please, read the full specification of the Google Crawlable Ajax spec before you throw it at me. I have. Including the part that says you really should have built it properly in the first place.
Is there a nut free version?
I don't have much to add, but I wanted to register my support for the author as a counterpoint to the wave of hate he is sure to receive here for posting such a squishy complaint that's not backed by "evidence". I believe truly that he's right that a lot of geeks are in denial about their health and effects of there lifestyle. Of course this is probably true of most people in modern industrialized society, but the thing that's pernicious about geeks in this case is their power of rationalization is so well-honed. Plausible deniability is pretty easy with something as complex as health, but so is it with climate change as well. It's interesting to see how the personal factors affect the relative reaction to both of these subject matters by the general HN population.
But how would you have determined what projects were worth funding?
Well, seriously, how much did it really matter in 2000? How much systems from the 70's were still in use in the year 2k? And how much of them actually failed? Even my IBM 8086 was y2k compliant.

I do know some people (even those who had no technical background or whatsoever) that made ridiculous amounts of money by "consulting" about the y2k problem.

My retirement plan is consulting on the y2k38 problem. However, as opposed to the y2k witch-hunt, this problem is very real. Preparing systems to be y2k38 ready actually requires work to be done...
You'd be surprised in how many places unixtime crops up. I'd really prefer ISO 8601 (especially becase it's a sane format, human-readable and supports time zones) though.
I guess I'm not allowed to participate in the discussion, I've had to delete several comments already that were getting steadily down-voted.

It's not a claim to be a miracle or cure-all. This is exactly the type of cynical, know-it-all bullshit that frustrates me so much. It's nothing else but a claim, based on years of my own personal experience, to the benefits I myself have experienced, and the benefits others have experienced. And they've been more than happy to share with me.

I brace myself now for more down votes, since here I reply in a reasonable and conversation-furthering manner. =/
Several OSs have already made the switch to 64-bit time_t, I'm typing this on one.
Anti-oxidant supplements are now generally believed to provide no real benefit, and might even have detrimental effects. See http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=709255 This research is about _supplements_, though. It doesn't say that it's a bad idea to consume vegetables and fruits where the anti-oxidants occur naturally, which is what OP was referring to.

That said, the real gain of eating vegetables is probably not that they happen to contain anti-oxidants. Rather, they contain any number of things that are good to us which are hard to quantify individually but has been observed to do us good as a whole. To attribute the positive health effects of something as complex as an apple to a single class of components - such as anti-oxidants - is most likely cargo-cult science in its purest form.
What's funny is I would sign up for MLB.com in an instant if I could watch the local game but they block that so I'm out.
For starters your original post should have been down voted because you originally went on about being down voted.

This site specifically asks you not to do this.

If you can't honour the sites basic rules, perhaps it's not your crowd anyway.

It's ok to make a mistake but to be up in arms about it shows this is more than that.
everything else being more or less equal , the person with the lifestyle of 6 hours a day will probably be less healthy than the person on 30 minutes a day
but... with no neutrality, they can raise their prices to multiple sets of people - people who right now aren't even their customers directly. It'll be quite a win.
In 2006, Google paid $1.65bn for YouTube. Now it's acquiring Twitch for  $1bn
Yeah, I think it's more the tone of the article that bothers people. It's strong with the 'I found Jesus, have you heard about Jesus, let me tell you about Jesus.'

What I find difficult about that is that I absolutely support someone who is excited about their epiphanies (especially when I think they're good ones!), but it can be really hard to not feel judged or to get annoyed or even downright angry.
I am pleased to see this as I had been tossing around a similar idea as a first-line alternative method of moderation, where commentary/open collaboration would be restricted to those with skin in the game, so to speak, and more or less without concern for the degree of skin in play.

As far as distribution, is it correct that enrolled partners who host/integrate see a flat 5 percent, the flattr service gets 5, and "creators" see the remainder of 90 percent from a things share of committed flattrs?
I do understand. That just wasn't what was under discussion here. The back-and-forth was about the possibility of living on Soylent-the-product, not about the claims of the company.
The same thing happens to me. I am just starting to worry that "I don't mind not growing as old" is not the worse case scenario here, as you are implying. Apart from not growing as old, you may surprisingly fall into a situation where you can't do some activity even while young. I just screwed up my knee while jogging and it seems to take months to recover. The first day I couldn't really walk, and then the next 3 weeks (and counting) I cannot run. And I blame my sedentary life and plain lack of care during the previous decade for this. The consequences of living unhealthy are just often underestimated. It's not just about living to be older, it's also about what happens in your mid-life.
I'm really not sure why some of the other comments here are focusing on the playing of music on the stream. Obviously they've never watched someone gaming on twitch. Nobody watches twitch for the music someone is playing. People watch it to see other people play and talk about games. Music may be in the background but is often obscured by dialog and game sounds. It's not even close to the quality a youtube video for music supplies.
Yeah, that may have started out with somewhat noble intentions. But still:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empir...

The legal fiction of the early Empire (in which the emperor was but the first among equals) was disposed of; the emperors, beginning with Aurelian, openly styled themselves as dominus et deus, lord and god, titles appropriate for a slave towards his master. An elaborate court ceremonial was developed, and obsequious flattery became the order of the day. Under Diocletian, the flow of direct requests to the emperor was rapidly reduced and soon ceased altogether. No other form of direct access replaced them, and the emperor received only information that was filtered through his courtiers.

Official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace. While the scale, complexity, and violence of government were unmatched, the emperors lost control over their whole realm insofar as that control came increasingly to be wielded by anyone who paid for it. Meanwhile the richest senatorial families, immune from most taxation, engrossed more and more of the available wealth and income, while also becoming divorced from any tradition of military excellence.
I agree - it is a pity I was not born to really wealthy parents.

There was a paper in Science about 15 years ago that was on how the independently wealthy worked in science that was really interesting (I might see if I can find it online).

If we go back to the foundations of science all scientist were just wealthy dilettantes :)

Edit. Found it - actually it was from 16 years ago :P

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/279/5348/178.summary?sid=7...
Correction: "Their CEO states that he has been doing it for months".

That´s why "metabolic wards" were invented for: Clinical trials with diets are extremely difficult to control.
"I'm not so different .. It's just that .."

You include yourself and then exclude yourself in the very next sentence.

I know you're excited and eager to share what you feel has empowered & enlightened you but you shouldn't take it to heart when not everyone else is on the same wavelength.
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Right. The Game Boy Color changed that, but it wasn't black-and-white.
"Maybe it's my ISP, I don't know. But for me streaming seems to be a second class citizen compared to cable & satellite."

Don't worry - once your ISP is able to charge each streaming service more money, they might be able to budget to upgrade to slightly faster service a few years later.
Content sites should be able to take advantage of javascript technologies more fully. It's all about user experience in the end. There's all sorts of new ways of navigating or presenting content that isn't just a static document after static document. In these cases, SEO is a requirement.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
From the interview:

"So either that, or they took that entire block of code and deleted it. So there's one of two ways of getting rid of it. If they commented it out, it would only take a couple minutes to reinstate it. It wouldn't be difficult to do. If they deleted it, they'd have to reconstruct all that code.

I suggested that to Diane Roark. That was the way that they probably did it, and they could reinstate it very simply, if they only commented it out."

If you are using version control, it would only take a couple of minutes even if you had deleted everything. You wouldn't have to rewrite all that stuff, just go back in the history.

I realize that this is off-topic to the main thrust of the discussion, but I found it a curious.
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Popular opinion or not, selfishness and generosity are calibrated by your moral values.

You're proposing an economic transaction where X pays, Y benefits and your moral desires are fulfilled. I doubt X would have a problem with you donating 20% of your income to a charity of your choice, why do you have a problem with their yacht?
Gregory Clarke's an economic historian at UC Davis. Among his online lectures is an interesting bit on why the Industrial Revolution was delayed 100,000 years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalpFYIdqEo

Among factors you might want to consider:

Britain is built on coal. It was washing up on the beaches (the early name for it was "seacoal").

Coal, oil, and gas were known to the ancients. What they lacked was a decent means to haul it any distance. Easier to grow your own hydrocarbons locally than dig them out of some smelly pit a few hundred, or thousand, miles away. So unless you happened to sit right next to a coal pit, tar seep, oil well, or gas jet, you burned wood.

England turned to coal as it was burning through its forests.

We've been prospecting for other resources. We've got a pretty good idea of what there is, and an even better idea of what there isn't.

Joseph Tainter writes on collapse and complexity. Among his points: societies don't adopt complexity unless there's a compelling need (and benefit). It's better to survive at a simple level, much of the time. You'll even see this today in IT.

And by your own statement: we've fewer resources now than humanity had in the 1700s, by virtue of burning our way through them.
Isn't the study (not the blog, because...honestly, who cares about a blog reference) about supplements, though?

My smoothie is made from whole foods, only.

Supplements are a very complicated thing. I can't even venture to say whether they're good or not, based on all the conflicting information.
>>It's not a claim to be a miracle or cure-all.

Read what you wrote:

>>>>If you add this smoothie to your daily life, and change nothing else, you will feel better. A lot better.

How?

>>>>you will feel better and experience benefits.

What kind of benefits?
That's really good news. I hope the different GC issues that required tuning and patching of 2.1.1 have been fixed.
I see this as the perfect example why the article is mostly wrong. It supposes a personal motivation for "ignoring" allegedly good advice, whereas I'd bet that a lot more readers are looking at things from a objective, scientific angle where just anecdotes don't really count ("every person I tried this on" ain't that much better than "it works for me!").

Probably some variation/inversion of Hanlon's Razor.

Not everyone who wants to see more evidence for every claim and trick is doing that out of sheer denial. There might be some room for the Nirvana fallacy here ("SuperMegaFoodStuff didn't make me into an Adonis in a week, so it's crap"), but in general I'm pro-skepticism.
Why do you think that blending food magically makes it "less healthy" and then it suddenly ceases to be "real food"? Come on, now!
Just trying to read that site stressed me out. So they failed before they even got started.
It's mild for the latitude. Consider that Minnesota gets those temperatures as well at the 45th parallel. That's with over 8 hours of daylight on the winter solstice.
The low-load index is still going to address the financial risk associated with carrying cash.

Both financial vehicles and cash presume that the economic system will sustain itself. There's always the possibility it won't.
Windows (7 and 8) and Ubuntu are both great. None of the things listed in the article about Windows is true.

> Windows is inconsistent - every vendor implements drivers in their own way

What? That makes no sense. Speaking about consitency and drivers in the same sentence does not make sense. No user has to think about drivers in Windows world. Small portion of developers might need to think about drivers, sure. Everybody else can just forget them. They work.

> It's unreliable - a constant source of crashes and problems, applications doesn't work as expected, long unexplained pauses.

Nope. XP, 7 and 8 are all really stable. Vista had its driver issues. Long pauses? Makes no sense at all. Applications do not work? Sure they do.

> It is thoroughly crap at multitasking

Really? Haven't seen enything in years that Ctrl+Alt+Del > Task manager > End process would not have fixed.

I run Ubuntu at home and haven't seen any weird error messages in years. The only problems I've had with Ubuntu have been hardware support issues. Those are annoying, sure.
I'll watch anything produced by Frontline. Always first class and real news.
Is this part of the premise of the book or personal opinion?
So you can peel for 5-10 meals worth of vegetables AND cook it all in under 15 minutes (slow cook it at that)? Well, you must have found a way to bend spacetime or something. I understand one hour is very long, but no need to go overboard in the other direction either.
(1) There are still some anyones outside of the US. (2) the IRS' definition of bitcoin as property is like the rules that some US states have about online purchases & taxes. You are supposed to keep track of all your online sales and pay the tax yourself. They are seldom enforced.

I don't think the IRS's decision has any immediate impact on sales using bitcoins.
Came here to say the same thing. Background colors and text changing without interaction and unpredictable consequences of navigation actions makes for quite the stressful experience.
But it literally can't scale. If you want your wave to do more than a 2 radius meters you need a ton more power.
Yeah, just use soy instead of almond milk.

According to wikipedia, almonds aren't nuts, but I'm guessing that's what you mean? Hopefully you're ok with flax seeds...

I don't use soy because of the conflicting information out there, and plus I like almonds. =)
FYI this was released 10 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718581
So who else is extremely curious about the "difficult to explain" goto statement? (about 17 minutes in)
Whitelisting sounds appealing. I was going to say that it wouldn't be effective due to the ease of faking caller ID. However, I must admit that wouldn't be a big deal unless the scammer already knew one of the numbers on your whitelist.

A bigger problem, though, is that I'd like to accept some calls from strange numbers, like couriers trying to deliver something, or emergency calls from loved ones, or customer service reps calling me back about something.

For whitelisting to be effective, we'd have to change other things about the way the phone network and its participants work.

BTW if all your friends also turned their phones off except when they wanted to call someone, you'd seldom be able to reach them, unless you happened to call just before/after they had made a call.
> I can make a rare steak with sea salt and a big fresh spinach+tomato+olive oil+vinegar salad in 3 minutes

Not really. You spend additional time shopping for it, taking a break from other things, cleaning after, washing up, etc. That was one of the points of creating the product in the first place - dealing with food every day is boring for some people, so let's try to eliminate it.
I'm hoping with the ousting of Vic Gundotra, Google will reenable XMPP federation with Hangouts...

For those unaware, for years GTalk supported using XMPP/Jabber to talk to other servers. A handle of whateverwhatever@gmail.com could speak through GTalk to someone using a different XMPP server with somethingelse@personaldomain.com.

With the introduction of Hangouts, this is no longer possible. In order to talk to GTalk users, you might be using a Google account.

Now before there's too much confusion: yes, Hangouts/GTalk users can still use XMPP clients, like Pidgin or Adium, to talk to other Hangouts/GTalk users. But such users can no longer talk to people using the global federated XMPP network of servers that are not Google.

For years I enjoyed being able to run my own XMPP server, do some interesting things with it, and still talk to my friends and family on GTalk. Now I'm forced to use Google to maintain this.

In other words, they took a well functioning standard that was successfully decentralized, federated, and working extremely well, and deliberately neutered the decentralized aspects. Now there is the nice decentralized XMPP, and Google's XMPP, separate, distinct, broken. It's a damn shame. Gtalk federation worked great for years, and it's only been with the G+era strangulation that it's disappeared.
Exactly. It's like people are surprised that countries have spies and their missions and it should be detailed in the daily paper.
The problem is most likely with legacy and embedded systems. The sort that are running somewhere for decades, unnoticed. Until they fail some day and panic happens. And they're not easily upgradeable either.
Its about anecdotal vs empirical evidence. And lets face it, all these miracle foods are being promoted (in the general health food market) as some saving grace to health. And they are doing it claiming to be, basically, a magic pill. Just put a dash of this, or a spoon of that, into your smoothie or onto some toast or into your oatmeal and BAM! Now you're healthy!

You might be feeling great, but have you done a scientific study to know if its just a placebo effect? My guess is that its not a placebo effect, but not because it has "super foods" in it. But because it has "FOOD" in it. As in, good whole and natural foods. I'm not a vegetarian, or anything close to that. But as a society, we need to eat healthier. This, is something that we should be touting. Eat fruits and vegetables - the more color the better. Eat less highly enriched starches and other highly processed foods. You don't have to stop eating everything that's unhealthy, you have to enjoy life. But if we all ate our recommended servings of fruit and veg we'd be reversing lots of obesity just because we were being intentional about our nutrition. And that is what it boils down to.
What are you talking about?

Seriously - you have gone off on a complete tangent that makes no sense to the original point.
Neither - it is an empirical observation. Have a look at this graph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Productivity_and_Real_Medi...
And the worst thing is: Chrome still doesn't properly support HiDPI on Linux or Windows. The bug got closed as: "Working as intended, just zoom into the page".
You mean Netflix + Youtube + (the thing we are not mentioning)
I'm finding a handy benefit of progressive enhancement is that it forces two distinct server side web-controllers for each piece of functionality - a server-side representation, and an Ajax representation.

That's useful in separating the the HTML generation from the business logic in a way that's obviously evident. So it helps me structure the code in a good clean way.
Does anyone else think that they've lost control of this vehicle and that's why, despite it having re-entry capability, it isn't doing a lot of re-entering?
You're forgetting that people grow out of gaming. Once you have a job and a family, gaming just isn't as fun anymore.
On the flip side, the fact of Continental Drift will remain when a new theory supersedes Quantum Mechanics.
Calling Professor Russell Foster having no clue was a little bit harsh, sorry about that.

I wanted to point out that a biphasic sleep pattern (which is also a polyphasic sleep-pattern) is the natural way to sleep.

Due to the segmented sleep (at least 90 minutes between sleeps) the body produces prolactin, which makes the first sleep have more SWS and the second sleep more REM, therefore you sleep more efficiently and get along with less sleep:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9709935

In this article Professor Russell Foster even admits, that a biphasic sleepcycle is the norm:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783

study about natural biphasic sleepcicle in winter:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10607034

this study suggests that monophasic sleeping was introduced with artificial light:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110629110723/http://www.history...