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First off: Because this functionality is in HTTP spec itself, I believe it should be leveraged when it makes sense. Otherwise, why even bother with HTTP and response codes?

Secondly, because you don't need to parse a JSON response to make decisions based on the response, both clients and servers can potentially be simpler and faster. If you got a 206 response and 1000 items back, but you made the request without an accept range header, not knowing if you were going to receive 10 items or 10000 items, you don't need to parse the JSON to find this out. This is opposed to just retrieving a 200 response, parsing and processing 1000 items, getting to the end to find a "next" property in your JSON you weren't expecting, and then firing off another request, when you could have already queued a second request if you had read the header first before processing your response. (RFC2616 Section 3.12 gives you some leverage in specifying range units, so its easy to define the range in items instead of bytes.)

However, I don't think that creating new headers is a good idea. My recommendation is simple: If it's in the HTTP spec and you are can use it according to how it's defined (like my items range example), then you should use it. If it's not in the spec, just go ahead and put it in the URI/response. The exceptions to that is maybe custom authentication mechanisms (i.e. HMAC or cookie based authentication), or anything which may be performance sensitive. For example, I have endpoints that are used in browser and by batch machines. It's easy to just use cookies for the browser and HMAC for batch machines.
I don't trust anyone who can "smell" winners or losers. Seems like it's going on in the startup world lately
>'BUT it is interesting that a lot of people missed the possibility of personal technology in their imagining of the future (2001, Floyd using a video phone to call the kids, Gibson, Asimov et al)'

Yeah.

Personally, I disagree with the notion that science fiction authors are or should mean to be making predictions with their writing. Basically, it doesn't make sense to say someone 'missed' if they weren't necessarily aiming in the first place.

Though, it's probably even more common to credit an author as prescient when he 'hits' so I guess it's a wash.
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It's only a "mess" to some, I personally have no beef with Australis, and the beauty of Firefox is that it allows for you to customise it to work how you want (hence you were able to 'fix' it). This flexibility means there's still plenty of room for UI experimentation. Besides, this Lightspeed design is explicitly not for Firefox, the designers acknowledge part of what makes Firefox what it is is the customisability, this design is seeing what could be done with an alternative browser.
> I really do feel Amazon is on the consumer's side. $15+ for a non-transferable ebook is ludicrous.

Hmm. I agree that that price is in many cases too high.
But as you say, that's because ebooks are non-transferable. Is creating and selling the devices and marketplace that make those ebooks non-transferable also on the consumer's side?

Amazon could have adopted EPUB for the Kindle instead of making their own ebook formats, and they could have pushed for higher-priced-but-transferable ebooks without DRM. They haven't done either at any point. It looks to me like Amazon is only on the consumer's side when they can strongarm the consumer into spending more money at Amazon.
Cool chart, there's a similar thing in this book.

It's a digital nomad guide book, the interviews with people that are successful digimads were really good!

http://digitalnomadsguide.com
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Totally understandable for founders who have skin in the game. An engineer hired as employee 10+ with less than half a percent equity, which will get diluted to 0.05% or less before an eventual exit (if ever!) shouldn't feel like he HAS to work 100 hours/week - especially if he's getting maybe 2/3s of his market value in salary.
On this topic how many days a week do pastors work?
That's strange, because I also noticed that, and I'm also starting to learn Clojure.
Of course, but it would be a little harder, a little more to keep track of. More precision than necessary.

People prefer to use dollars and not cents, don't they?
> It sold more than 6m copies and launched an entire aesthetic: cyberpunk.

The cyberpunk aesthetic was already in existence, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)
WHO CARES
Yes, let's work 3 days a week in the West. China will continue to work 6 or 7 days. Fast forward 10 years and the reserve currency will be the yuan.
It's been awhile, but I know I was logging custom events to the Event Log over 10 years ago, and I'm pretty sure MMC (or whatever its successor might be called) allowed custom filters so that a person could select a particular slice of the log pie.
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Nowadays that would probably mean a blue sky.

That may have been what Gibson actually intended it to mean.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/05/negative-creativity/#co...
>I'd guess about half of that identify as Christian because it's socially unacceptable to be agnostic.

That's much less an issue now than 50 years ago though, which is what's important when talking about a relative decline. It was much less socially acceptable to identify as agnostic in 1960 than it is today.
Many people think so, but you'll get those 50%-80% jobs only in those sectors where they don't pay enough per hour that you can live from it.

It's a real shame....
I said female reproductive system for a very specific reason; the uterus may not have come before the embryo, but the cloaca certainly did.
I'm afraid your argument is circular.

You're claiming that the ability to divide evenly is an intrinsic quality of Imperial, and then when I point out that actually it can be done in any measurement system (including metric), you claim that this makes metric like Imperial, because...well, because dividing evenly is a property of Imperial.

Unless you're suggesting that timber should only be available by 1 inch, 1 foot and 1 yard measurements in the US and by 1 cm, 1 meter, ermm...I kilometer(?) in other countries?

Edit: I didn't claim metric was better at all (it is, but I didn't claim it!). You claimed that Imperial was better for dividing up lengths of timber. I explained why it wasn't.
In college we used to pour handles of McCormick vodka into left over Grey Goose bottles(same ones used over and over). I think you all can guess that no one ever knew the difference. :p
You miss the base-10 point: you can switch in zero time from 240cm to 2.4m and vice-versa, as you can switch in zero time from $2,40 to ¢240 when you expect ¢60 in return.
And you can totally ignore the "2", and focus on the "40" part, if you care about the precision, in zero time, and switch back to a global view.
I see elsewhere that you built this site with this tool - does it offer wider variety? (I personally dislike the trend of lots of scrolling, oversized pictures that don't give any meaningful information, and little content...)
Nope, you can always purchase more text messages. We wanted to give our 'pro' customers a bundle of text messages when they signed up.
But then when it comes to serious issues, like the Somalian pirates crisis, the ship owners suddenly want all the protection again that the tax dollars they are not paying can buy.

All the benefits, none of the responsibility.
Thank you. Curious, what kind of service do you need?
Clients are surprisingly willing to deal with that. It may be less of a hard constraint than you think it is, particularly if you train your clients to expect that type of working relationship.

I had an interesting call with a doctor client recently. "I didn't notice a number on your website." "That's correct." "So how am I supposed to get in touch with you?" "I recommend email." "But you only respond to email a day later." "That's correct." "Shouldn't you make yourself more available to your customers?" "With respect, doctor, I'm exactly as available as I wish to be."

You would think she'd be mad after a conversation including that, but she actually left happy, because I was able to fix her problem.
The pastors I'm familiar with all work a typical work week - 40 hours or more. Plus visiting the hospital, counseling, weddings, funerals etc.
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No. Static was the intention: a grey mottled sky, rife with noir-insinuation. Can you possibly envision Chiba City as being anything but grey and filthy at all times? A blue sky completely changes the meaning of the line, and the tone of the setting.
http://whois.domaintools.com/verizon78.com Looks pretty fishy. Report the call here https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
Phenomenal experiences, like emotions, feelings, thoughts, sensations, are inexplicable [a]. Yet we know they evolved.

[a] http://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_c...
Just wanted to give thanks to the OP for posting this :)
Well, if you really believe it is as simple as being a pure numbers game then based on population counts we're going to have to find a way to work 24 to 28 days a week to keep up with the Chinese.

So either your premise is horribly flawed or we're fucked no matter what we do.
My dad was a music director and assistant pastor. He worked about 5 days a week, and also had another job on the side. Choir practice, church functions and services, preparing sermons, visiting sick church members, counseling members, and doing charity work add up to a good bit of time.
I read your blog post, thanks for the longer description :)
That's a good example of the echo chamber that HN and Silicon Valley have become. Removed from the rest of the country (and world) in so many ways...
> 100: Boiling point of water

Nope! Boiling point of water at 760 Torr. In contrast, Fahrenheit uses a frigorific 1:1:1 mixture of water, ice and ammonium chloride as the second reference point, which does not depend on ambient pressure.
I stopped reading after "John Maynard Keynes". This guy had no clue about true economics and we all suffer today for his insane theories. Three days workweek if stupid idea, because, as some real economist, Adam Smith said: there are three sources of wealth: land, capital and work. You cannot expect to become wealthier by just working less, for the same reason that you won't get fit by excercising less, or get smarter by learnig less.
Appeal to popularity is a bad argument.

But I think what the original poster intended was the decline in number of Americans attending a traditional church or believing in Christianity.

That shift is fairly pronounced, especially over the last two decades.
Eh, I'd rather get an ekranoplan.
I think the maps are very good but all Android maps I have tried that use OSM have terrible search interface.

In Google I can type in "IKEA Burbank" and get the right result. I can't do that in any of the OSM apps.

I also need to know in what city a certain street is. I can't do "1234 Foothill, Los Angeles" like in Google but I need to know that this number is in Glendale.

If they fixed this I think adoption would go up a lot.
Why not half a salary?
Sometimes I use an editor with a highlight and comment feature, and if I comment out a block of code, some of those intertwined comments will have the double semicolon. Another neurosis I have is using multiple for stuff that I've yet to delete but want to make sure I don't accidentally uncomment but that is dumb and what version control solves. Outside of these unconvincing uses I'm not familiar with this nested comment idea but I couldn't criticize it given the funny things I do.
You make it sound like a unique situation. Everyone seems to want everything and not pay for it. This is just a ship example.
half inch, 12" by 12" for $360 from Amazon: http://www.amazonsupply.com/dp/B00CNM793E (Grade 2)

They also have up to 4 inch thick 12x36 inch plate (only $8,000) and several other dimensions of sheets and rods: http://www.amazonsupply.com/dp/B00MB366WA (Grade 5, higher strength alloy)

Free shipping, no customs, brand new.

I can't imagine how difficult customs would be when importing old military equipment from Russia.
I must admit I don't really know his political views. Do you mean what shines through in his books, or do you have some other source (like interviews with him or whatever)? I have only read his books, and only the ones that have been translated to German.

Have you read "Das Schlangenschwert"? I really liked his reflections on society in that one.
> Now, what wrong with TrueNorth? My main criticism is that TrueNorth implements networks of integrate-and-fire spiking neurons. This type of neural net that has never been shown to yield accuracy anywhere close to state of the art on any task of interest (like, say recognizing objects from the ImageNet dataset). Spiking neurons have binary outputs (like neurons in the brain). The advantage of spiking neurons is that you don't need multipliers (since the neuron states are binary). But to get good results on a task like ImageNet you need about 8 bit of precision on the neuron states. To get this kind of precision with spiking neurons requires to wait multiple cycles so the spikes "average out". This slows down the overall computation.

Surely you can do this in the spatial domain instead of time? That is, each neuron is one bit, so you have 8 each computing one of the 8 bits he says are necessary? Perhaps the problem is using that value afterwards, I guess.
F was designed for humans, while C is apparently designed for water. Half of your list talks about what water does, or are fairly meaningless numbers to humans. While pretty much every number on the GPs list is relevant to humans. That is the big difference. In day to day life, the average human doesn't really need to know what temp water changes state. They want to know how comfortable they will be.
Doesn't the protection come from the government of whatever country the ship's crew is citizens of?

Ie, they're benefitting from their government's duty to protect their safety (which I think is pretty hard to dispute). Recovering the ship, if it happens, is purely incidental.
If automation continues and demand stays the same, things like 3-day work weeks will come about naturally. A capitalist system would not prevent that from happening.

Would you care to share why you think capitalism would prevent an increase in leisure time (even though it has been increasing since the industrial revolution)?
That's not entirely true. If you look at something like the Economics Experts Panel: http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel, some issues are divisive, some have broad consensus and most are in between.

We tend to only hear about the divisive ones though because those are the only ones that actually make news.
That's not a problem. profits made within a country can be taxed within a country. Stopping the export of capital is a legal/legislative issue, not a logistical one.

The rich have already left. The mythical class we're "punishing" arent tied to nations/peoples any more. Their assets are however. Their companies operate within nations. They wealth is spent in deals/properties/etc. within countries.

If a Koch brother lands on US soil he can be arrested and all of his assets seized. If he does a deal with a US company, all of the transactions can be subject to US law.

It's a matter of political will.
Thank you! Compliments like this makes all those long nights we spent working worthwhile!
Whats the difference between a leisure state and a welfare state?
I see - didn't know that. I thought they are about artificial life or a society that chose to withdraw into cyberspace. But as I said, I haven't read them.
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They're usually referred to as 2.4m and 3.6m if that makes it easier for you to track. I converted them to cm as I thought that would be simpler for people.
You think this has to do more with cultural differences due to Goldman's historical roots as a partnership, or with structural differences in the banking vs technology industries?
The paper quoted as reaching the same intuitions about the CAP-like limitations ("On the Power of (even a little) Centralization in Distributed Processing") makes a simplifying assumption that is not valid for decentralized systems that are... "interesting" (for lack of a better word).

The assumption is (quoting from the Conclusion): "For example, the transmission delays between the local and central stations are assumed to be negligible compared to processing times; this may not be true for data centers that are separated by
significant geographic distances." This sounds to me awfully like an "oracle machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine). It has "more computation" and it can decide instantaneously on where to apply it. I'm skeptical of generalizing the result from the paper to all distributed systems, in particular, the ones where latency-to-effort ratio doesn't fit into the stated assumption.
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I agree it will eventually happen, but of course it will happen faster if we're less productive.
I bet someday a use for 1's and 0's are found (not necessarily in that order).
No, crews from countries with significant military are far too expensive.
Yeah I went there straight away too...I don't know why, I have a thing for that helicopter even though I'm not into militaria. I'm fighting off the temptation to purchase a large remote control kit now.
One of the biggest arguments for metric (other than the rest of the world uses it) has been that it is easy to convert from liters to kilometers. In your day to day life, how often do you need to convert from one thing to another? For most people, the answer is they don't. Occasionally in cooking you need to convert, other than that you rarely need to convert. So don't go and switch the system just because something people rarely do is easier.
And yes there are lots of jobs that require doing conversions. Many of those jobs already use metric.
"Reduced labour" isnt produced by automation, increased profit is. To "give back" labour you have to reduce profits.

"Leisure time" was won by unions, collective bargaining and legislation. "The Weekend" only exists at all because of the collective actions of the workforce, not of capital owners.
Went camping this week. Left my Prius behind, took my girlfriend's 4x4 up the forest service road to the campground ... found 3 Prius there ahead of me.

We need less car than we think we do.
I've been a day or two late before. I've never been hassled. Unless this guy is r ed gularly late id give him atleast a week before you start bugging him. Your just making enemies imo.
George Jetson: "These three day work weeks are killing me."
(wikipedia: "George's job primarily requires him to repeatedly push a single button")

That is, isn't this a product of a far more optimistic (cartoon) past view of the future? and/or "where's my flying car?"
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There was a fair bit of dogfighting in the Gulf War, but as with many things in the military, it matters more that you could then that you actually do.
Yeah -- and it's way easier to pack out 4 or 6 solid months of work than it is to find work that trickles in regularly at anything like "2 days a week," at least for me.
racism.
I perceive this as one of a species of comments that is well-intentioned and valuable in isolation, but that when introduced to the thread has the effect of making it harder to discuss the article on its own terms.

It's easy to see the subtext of the article that indicts unrestrained economic competition. So it's hard to ding a comment for surfacing that subtext and engaging with it.

But at the same time, having been on HN for a long time, it's also easy to see how the result thread will simply litigate capitalism, and how unlikely it is that anyone will learn anything from the ensuing debate.
Converting liters to kilometers? I need to know how to do this! How many beers is a kilometer? Gonna get my jog on.
Telenav employee here - we've been navigating exclusively on OSM since June for both iOS and Android (Scout Maps App). We also acquired Skobbler earlier in the year, which navigates using OSM if you're outside the US.
This pretty good. I'd put in 40, so hot you forget it gets this hot (for northern europeans).
I'm confused. The article claims

"“net neutrality,” allows internet service providers
(ISPs) to discriminate between different types of internet
traffic (a “fast lane” for video and social media, for
example) in an attempt to help further competition and
promote innovation"

and in so doing appears to conflate the FCC's new rule proposals with the abstract principle of net neutrality, which the rules would explicitly contravene.

Is some clarification possible here?
The assumption here I think is that a book at $9.99 might attract people who wouldn't buy it at $14.99. I'm probably one of those people, particularly with fiction books (computer science books/math books/etc are another issue). There are so many choices that are far below the $14.99 price, that unless it's from a favorite author I'd happily pass up the higher price for another book, or another form of media (like a game). It doesn't matter what other retailers offer the price at, $14.99 is simply too high for an e-book, and I only read fiction books as e-books. I might be the minority, but given the expertise of Amazon at selling books, I think that Amazon probably has a valid point.

You're right though, that it doesn't completely prove the point, but I think it definitely makes a point. People who wouldn't buy the e-book at 14.99 are probably unlikely to go out and buy the same book from another retailer for 14.99. The question is if it really increases the market share of the book, or if instead lowering the price on amazon makes everyone who would buy the book would just go to amazon for the cheaper price. (Given that e-books cost nearly nothing to distribute, I would think that the price drop would pretty easily pay for itself though)
It seems as though the author has mixed up pro- and anti-net neutrality (or rather, the meaning of net neutrality itself). Otherwise, the data analysis is pretty nice (though some of the maps seem to be falling to the https://xkcd.com/1138/ mistake).
Besides a few city names, USA was completely missing in 2007?
I take it that you never tasted a cucumber partly frozen because your fridge went a bit overzealous...

We (and most things we eat, and all that white shitty stuff that blocks your commute in a winter day) are made mostly of water. The difference between -1C and 1C can be pretty significant, unlike the difference between -1F (fucking cold) and 1F (duh, fucking cold).

* Well, of course all of this is silly pissing match between groups of people who grew up with their favorite measure system, but anyway...
I took that directly from the first paragraph on the FCC's Open Internet brief: http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet
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Best of luck Nate, Mike, Zach & team! We wish we could've attended.

Sincerely,

Your favorite developers :)
Wait, I submitted this yesterday and now it's on the front page of Hacker News?

The Hacker News ranking system always surprises me.
Why is this a 'preferred convention' for Python3? Doing this causes a lot of confusion for Python beginners that write code in Python2 (i.e. it causes them to accidentally use old-style classes). A better practice is to add the extra word i.e. 'class ClassName(object):' for both Python2 and Python3 code. This is especially true if you are writing Python tutorials. Since we are going through this Python2 to Python3 transition it is better to minimize the differences in the cases where they don't really matter (i.e. add the extra 'object' word).