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>The world has not moved on.

To clarify, I'm not saying "moved on" as an objective measure of superior technical progress.

The "moved on" is referencing a descriptive (not prescriptive) state of affairs with how the world now defines "the web". The existence of sliding around map tiles in maps.google.com, syncing folders in Dropbox, etc is evidence that the world does not think of "web" the way Tim Berners-Lee thought of hyperlinked documents in 1993.
Still relies on JavaScript server side rendering - which will be the biggest performance bottleneck, by far, for both this and React.

If you really want a framework that is faster, check out Tungsten (https://github.com/wayfair/tungstenjs), which is as fast as this client side, and can render in vanilla Mustache using Go/C++.
Which newspaper's app would the newspaper:// URL link to? It's certainly possible to do this, but it's often done badly. And if the app doesn't display its URLs, and they're not made available nicely in its "share" functionality, then the user isn't going to be able to work out how to refer to the article.

Also from that link: "Security considerations: Unknown, use with care." Great!

(news:// is already taken by Usenet NNTP to refer to articles by ID)
The strength of this is its weakness: because the worlds are generated procedurally, they cannot contain dependencies between the elements of the world, unless they have been specified in the formula. The article gives a good example, of how a river can't emerge from the slopes of the terrain - instead, you have to encode the river as part of the terrain. It's not emergent. It's analytical, not numerical.

They can still have a sophisticated generation method, which does encode several different features, that can co-occur in unexpected ways, but it can't be a deep interaction. In effect, the designers are exploring the space of equations for world generation. The advantage is they can have billions of planets without storing them or expensively generating them. Analytical solutions are extraordinarily efficient - it's just a formula, you punch in the seed and you're done. No iteration or search.

In the videos I've seen, the planets all look alike, just different shapes and colours for trees, grass, terrain.

Still, I admire their dream and fervor and hope it's more interesting than I expect.
The author of the article is inaccurate. The Declaration of Independence made it quite clear the reasons colonists separated from Britain.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transc...

The British government was forcing colonists to house their troops, which allowed them "free" housing and food. It also acted as a mechanism to restrict free speech and to spy on the colonists. Who would speak against what the King and government was doing if you had his soldiers living in your house?

The British government was also eliminating laws the colonists had made for themselves, and instantiating his own. The government was kidnapping people, taking them overseas to be tried for false crimes. The government started domestic insurrections.

The government also regulated the colonists' trade with other countries, trying to enrich itself and pay for its irresponsible Keynesian "stimulus". Therefore the government also imposed taxes on the colonists, without giving them any representation in parliament. The government actually tried to compromise with a lower tax, but the colonists were unwilling to have no say in their government, hence the Boston Tea Party (a demonstration against taxes).

The government also created a multitude of new government offices and harassed the colonists with regulations of every sort. The government also hired mercenaries to terrorize towns, causing great damage and death. They additionally conscripted colonists into their army to fight their own towns.

All of this the colonists called tyranny, and you can read more in the Declaration.

So the colonists were not revolting because government was not spending enough. They decided to form their own government which was only funded by import duties (and in the early times, taxes on "vice" products like snuff). No income tax, no social security tax, no death tax, no gift tax, nothing.

It was this practically non-existent government (yet a respect and protection of private property) that allowed the United States to go from a 3rd world nation to the most powerful nation on earth. By 1900, the US was a scientific and manufacturing powerhouse. Permanent income taxes and a central bank would not come around till 1913.
His lab now uses (and contributes to) Torch7:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_...
Not in the slightest bit true.

The way the US bill of rights applies to non-citizens not residing in the US is complex, but considering how little the US courts care about the question, functionally we have no rights when dealing with the US government.

This is the lynchpin to things like seizing people passing through US airports and holding them indefinitely in Guantanamo bay.

At least my own government can't get away with treating me like a brick.
What qualifies as the necessities and basic niceties? That's a very broad category that fluctuates based on where you live.

It doesn't really matter, because people can move. You just give the same to everyone, and let people choose whether they prefer to live large in Midwest or frugally/working in NY.
> Once you've been productive it allows you to store that productivity in a fungible form.

What is a trust fund then? Were the folks on the receiving end of trust funds productive? How about high frequency trading? Is the money made from computers intercepting and manipulating trade prices the result of someone's productivity?

Money has been divorced from productivity for quite some time.
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check https://www.youtube.com/html5

I get full <video> playback capability in FF nightly on windows and linux
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It's not at all thinly veiled. The account to which you're replying seems to have been created solely to harass him with.
Weighing in on the most recent court ruling for Uber in France
>Suppose Service X costs you $500 per month to produce. If you keep giving it away for free, you're incurring a loss of $500 per month. That is not sustainable.

>In a similar fashion, running the Nanny-Fairy-Machinery and producing things with it would definitely cost something, and that's why giving the output away for free wouldn't be sustainable. It's a Marxism-tinged pipe dream.

The reason any of this is being discussed is because the cost of producing basic needs should be going down because of automation, technology, etc. and won't be stuck at $500 or whatever value you choose over a long period of time. It's not impossible for Service X to get to the point where its cost to customers is not worth handling actual currency from its customers (which is what happens if the number you pay always remains at $500/mo).

Eventually we get to employ robots to do hard labor better than any human can for longer periods of time until we're paying fractions of a penny per hour in 'wages', initial cost and maintenance included. The ability to do this just wrecks any intuition we have about what it costs to produce things.
They shouldn't worry about self driving cars. The cost and complexity of developing a fleet of them is very high. In too of that, the technology is not quite there. Their biggest risk ae regulation and gun point robberies.
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The fact that anyone was ever poor should be an affront to anyone who believes that money is real. People of your ilk are fond of resorting to the old canard "everyone needs a roof over their head and food in their belly". Well, there quite simply is an astounding surplus of such. Those who really believe that the lottery system we currently use of assigning who gets what is truly effective and just will have to answer for that someday.

Money is only powerful because a quorum of people have mutually agreed to believe that it is. One of the things I enjoy pointing out is that the stock market is a wonderful example of the power of belief. When enough people believe it's going to crash, guess what happens?
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Agreed, I haven't seen any iPads, nor any iPad advertisements either lately. The product is a lemon, only bolstered by the endless consumerism of Apple fans. Apple Watch will meet the same fate.
EU as a geographic entity, or EU as a political organisation?
I don't think that follows. If "your" consciousness is just the consciousness that has a continuity of memory with a previous version of you, then the two copies would both be you, but they would not be one another.
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I've only met patio11 in person very briefly (thaks to rwalling's MicroConf), but everything I saw confirmed the idea that he's a very nice, helpful person.
The WhatsApp client is not official or licensed, I guess? I wonder how WhatsApp deals with such third-party clients that end up with a large user base?
I heard rumours that some ibankers were hacking GSM calls around New York to get ahead of activity. I'm sure that people are getting recorded around there, but it's probably pretty targeted.
I see it the same as you.

I don't have the same opinion as the author of the article. His arguments read like the article is from 3-4 years ago when the old iOS UI was still hip and Web Apps tried to recreate it with slow JS libraries.
Why link version with year old code? https://jsperf.com/ldash-vs-underscore/3
This page is so narrow, and the text so small, it's unreadable.
I would like to complement that native youtube(the one used on mobile) is far better at playback while keeping nearly every other advantage that it has on the web.
Why not making this list open source? I mean, this is not complete at all and you won't be able to fill it in all on your own. Just my 2 cents :)
I challenge you to find a single source backing up that assertion. Even the most pessimistic show that median household wealth has stayed flat since the 70s. None show it declining.
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Next generation of college grads may not be working at offices at all
The post forgets a lot of the history of why web apps were originally welcomed: they allowed a choice of platform. Going native undeniably gives a better user experience. However there is a trade off in developing for a single platform that cross platform tooling cannot yet remove sufficiently.
The problem is, it's our fault that recruiters are now asking for Angular, because we sold our employers on Angular and built their apps in Angular. Now that Angular is mainstream and has fallen out of fashion, they need to hire more developers to maintain all those Angular apps we built for them.
I just had this discussion a few weeks ago and it wasn't even about mobile applications; It was about mobile application testing frameworks. We were deciding between a hybrid approach to testing (Appium) vs native (UIAutomation). I don't think these types of debates are going to end soon because most of the decision makers in large companies have grown up with and love the web. For the most part, I've only seen the web get faster and better since the mid 90's, but that was limited to the platform of a computer.

The theoretical maximum benefit of writing a program once that runs everywhere (watch, phone, phablet, tablet, laptop, desktop, tv) and is always up to date (computing is done in the cloud) is extremely enticing but has serious performance implications. What you always end up with is a developer friendly framework that contains cases for each platform and in most cases, doesn't have all of the features each individual developer needs (Bootstrap, Appium, Node.js, React, Angular, etc...).

I want the web to win, but in most cases the DOM was not built and designed for the direction that native applications are going.
That's an incredibly frustrating response because it doesn't actually address anything substantive but simply attempts to cast dispersion on the arguments. I'll reiterate the request I made to a commentator below in the thread. Are there counter examples of a society working without incentive that allows people to work or not work and if so, why aren't they with us today / if they are, why aren't they more influential? I'm open to being proven incorrect in the course of a substantive discussion, however, I'm disinclined to change my views in the face of simple dispersion.

You're missing the point that incentives matter, pretty much every economist from the most socialist to the most libertarian agrees on that point. When you incentivize one activity, you're removing incentives somewhere else. I.E. if I cut the cost of junk food 1000% percent, I'm encouraging you to eat bad food because you can get more of it for less compared to healthy food. Comparably, if I incentivize not working that will reduce or remove the incentives to work.

> That's an incredibly naive response.

And that's a terrible response with no further substantiation of the position. What is the "not naive" view of money? Why is it a superior position to hold? Give me a reason to prefer. Simply telling me I'm being naive without substantiation or alternative is borderline ad hominem.

> For the amount these people are paid, it's hard to see how much value they are producing. There is definitely an entitlement mindset.

How are you defining value? In the case of your example, they're leading in and participating in multi-billion dollar companies and markets that people are giving money to in exchange for services indicating they provide some value to the end user. We can debate the merits of that value or the manner it's provided, but the fact that people are giving the companies money would indicate they're providing a good or service the people value.
I don't know. I personally feel like it shouldn't be as liquid as it is; it seems like an extraordinarily risky way to earn a return that is, after expenses including time, not that much better than what you might get aggressively investing in the market.
> And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback.

And at it's core, BetMax is better than VHS. HD-DVD is better than Blu-Ray.

Often, it's not about what is "better". It's about who has the most moment, is easier, less encumbered by DRM, etc.

Sometimes it's better to download Youtube... more often than not, Youtube "just works".
Perhaps not like this:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2009/07/matasano-com-hacked.html
From reading his post, I get the impression that his/her incentive was to uphold copyright.
Performance comparisons with Angular and React aren't that interesting anymore. They are good because they got Facebook/Google behind them and not because they are blazing the rest of the Frameworks away.

Mess yourself with Mithril, Mercury or Elm.
Goldberg says parenthesis-balancing and indentation etc. would require lots of non-trivial human reasoning to implement, but I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9585080 's example even more amazing: the NN actually learns meter and parts of speech – I don't find it very likely that you could get a character-based markov-chain to generate completely novel grammatically correct constructions (with correct meter!) from such a small corpus, since you always have to weigh correctness (high order) up against ability-to-generalise (low order).
I feel sorry for the future people who are going to have to try and make sense of what's really real and what's only real in the context of a fictional movie.
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I can't stand this parenthetical. it's not strange at all!

(Strangely, the 20th century is considered to have started Jan. 1, 1901, so there are a handful of other, verified women still alive who were also born in the 19th century.)
It is, but i dunno why every other new framework pushes that, when you can do this in react with some conventions and 30 lines of node code. AFAIK ember fastboot gonna use jsdom and they are planning to release something for a long time, may be it is focus thing, or just too painful to do that using naive jsdom rendering.
Is that supposed to be clever? "Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Well... well, your Wordpress blog got hacked once."

Sick burn.
It's well known that, once you acquire enough money, you can live off the proceeds of that money. If you inherited a million dollars and put it in bog-standard funds, you'd get ~$75,000 a year for doing absolutely nothing. How that factors into your theory, I'd love to know.
Using pages to display text is fine. I regularly use space to scroll a page down when reading a long text in the browser because it is more pleasant than constantly scrolling. But fixed pages should not be part of the document markup in most cases. Reading a PDF on my phone is not a pleasure just because I can't just flow the text to fit my device.
Yes, I would rather be on a planet that has something left after a mass dying and a known history of it's growth cycles than a planet that has NOTHING LIVING ON IT to start with. Not really sure how else to say this, so I won't say it anymore.
I've found that DSLs which are well supported by theory tend to nearly always be a good idea. For example, Spire's mathematical data structures (group, ring, field, boolean algebra) tend to be useful, as are Scalaz's monad/monoid/applicative.

One which I haven't seen out there in the world, but turned out to be a fantastically useful, is the Free Boolean algebra. It's a functor FreeBool[_] which is also a boolean algebra. It's Free because it has the property that for any function f: T => U, U a boolean algebra, there is a natural transformation nat(f): FreeBool[T] => U which is also a homomorphism (nat(f)(x & y) = nat(f)(x) & nat(f)(y), etc).

Even though things were not actually pinned down (and still aren't), I'm confident this is a good choice - thousands of mathematicians are very rarely wrong.
If you already found good tools and happy with these - stick to it. If you are still looking - I find description on the site is pretty clear about idea behind approach, which made me quickly do proper decision to learn it/skip it this time.
My experience is it's the other way around. I am the Technology Director at a school, and when a teacher tells me "the Internet is not working," he is saying that when he clicks on the Internet Explorer or Chrome icon, he's not getting what he expects. Rather than the web becoming the Internet, to them, them Internet is only what they see through the browser. The fact that Dropbox or Facetime also uses the Internet does not occur to many people.
It is our fault if Angular was not a best tool for a job at the time, otherwise we should be happy that we have better tools coming to help us doing our job.
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Your diploid genome is roughly six billion base pairs. That means six errors per duplication. But there will also be other errors introduced by DNA damage from other sources, and processes which have evolved to modify your genome (for example, V(D)J recombination).
I suspect that a lot of the stuff we take as "natural" these days where actually artificially introduced during the industrial revolution to help the factory owners get as much bang as possible out of the workforce.

For example there was the enclosure movement in England that possibly lead many a former farmer to move to the city to get a job. This because they no longer had access to enough common grazing land and such.
Features like generic dispatch in Common Lisp result in similar amounts of dynamism; methods and classes can be defined and redefined at any time so a lot of work goes into making that fast; see for example http://metamodular.com/generic-dispatch.pdf

Also similar to Kernel#set_trace_func, CL has TRACE (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/CLHS/Body/m_trac...) but unlike generic dispatch, that's not expected to be fast.
> building a hybrid app wins every time.

Define your criteria for "winning". If I'm truly building a user experience, then I don't know a single hybrid app that has "won" (my definition of winning here is an app I use daily, and I don't know of a single app I use daily that is hybrid)

> 90% is easily good enough for most applications

The problem is most applications (80%) don't really even need a native app to begin with.
What is problem for you - for some might be job security :) And I think Angular is still very much in fashion. At least this is impression I am getting from occasional talks with random recruiters.
If you have N virtual dom nodes, and you are going to compare them every time a single thing changes, your performance may be good, as long as N is small. Unfortunately, React and similar frameworks don't deal with the case that N is large.
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> The situation was a lot more nuanced than that. The setup of Jamestown as between the Crown and the investors, not the colonists, who were essentially indentured servants for 7 years. Also, the climate was not right for the types of crops the colonists were trying to grow, and as someone else mentioned, the settlers were not accustomed to the environment.

I don't know anything about Jamestown, but... this kind of feels like you're giving more detail, but it's detail that doesn't really contradict the original narrative?

At any rate, I took the original narrative to be: originally the workers received the same amount of stuff regardless of how much they worked, and that went badly. Then the workers started to receive more for working harder, that went better. And your version seems to be consistent with that, even if there were other factors making things difficult for the colony. Like they're two different stories, set in the same universe but focused on different things. One is a history and one is a snapshot, and the snapshot adds more detail but doesn't mean the history is wrong.

That's the impression I'm getting of the two narratives here. I remain ignorant of the actual facts.
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Your problem is that have a life. Spend all day working and then checking out new stuff. Don't take a shower, eat on your laptop, etc.

=)
It's only that way when you say things like "Most of the world has a cell phone, while the Caesars couldn't have even imagined it".

Meanwhile, the world's wealth becomes increasingly concentrated at the top.
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or possibly been in charge of hardware and software UI/UX was just too much work for one person when you include the admin overhead.

I'm not a huge fan of Apple or it's stuff but I respect the amount of work that goes into what they do on the design side.
Simplified version:

* If you pay 95% in money and 5% of the salary in equity, he is an employee

* If you pay 5% in money and 95% of the salary in equity, he is a cofounder

Also:

* An employee only gets a few % of the total equity, say 2%, 1% or less

* A cofounder gets almost the same equity of the other cofounders, in this case about 33% (perhaps 40%+40%+30%, not 45%+45%+10%) (In this case, it looks like you don't have a prototype, so 33.3%+33.3%+33.3% looks better.)

[In any case, remember to use the standard 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff scheme.]
Yes, but whatever that is should not be called "web", just like we call "cars"... "cars", not "carriages", though they may look like it.

"The web" is defined by a set of traits (hyperlinks etc.). When whatever we're doing stops having those traits, it's no longer the web. Continuing to call it "the web" is not some form of philosophical awareness, it's just ignorance.