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I was at Rijsksmuseum a couple of weeks ago and didn't really have any idea what those post-its are all about. I tried to read some of them in the beginning but found their content banal and poorly written (only a couple of days after I read this in Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/25/art-is-t...).

Ironically and to my surprise, as I'm far from being any sort of an art buff and this stuff usually bores me, at Rijskmusem I really enjoyed those typical descriptions put next to the paintings, with short notes about art history and some details about described work of art. There they really are filled with interesting info. To each his own I guess. Or maybe it is unexpected side-effect of the "Art is Therapy" project.

Does Hetzner has any proper competitor somewhere, with similar power/price ratio? Especially interested in some on the US side of the pond. They seem to be a go-to company for everyone that wants to host stuff on his/her own.

James Long from Mozilla has his answer for this:

Aren't you tired of having to query the DOM tree and manually manage the structure to create UIs? Web Components doesn't solve this at all, it just tries to encapsulate the work. The problem is that building apps is building components, so you inevitably are forced back into the manual DOM management to create your app-specific components (like how you constantly have to create directives in Angular). You also need to jump into JavaScript to configure and wire up any Web Components you used. It's a very messy abstraction, and fools you into desiring a pure HTML-based declarative way to write apps, which is like wanting steak but eating liver.

See http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...

This is targeted in the same article, although no clear answer is given:

Questions were raised as to why Malaysia Airlines had continued to fly over such a volatile region, where separatists were known to be shooting at aircraft. Qantas, the Australian carrier, said it had been steering clear of the area by 400 nautical miles for several months. Malaysia Airlines said that after the crash it immediately altered its flight paths, while other airlines either did likewise or emphasised they had already been taking alternative routes.

"With immediate effect, all European flights operated by Malaysia Airlines will be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route," said a statement from the airline. It added: "The usual flight route was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions."

But Polymer depends, for example, on Shadow DOM, which is currently only supported by Chrome, Opera (Chrome-based) and Android browser - not even by Firefox yet (http://caniuse.com/#search=shadow%20dom). There are pollyfills but they're too slow to treat them as a viable solution.

The European air traffic control body, Eurocontrol, said Ukrainian authorities had banned aircraft from flying at 32,000ft or below and the doomed aircraft had been cruising above that, at 33,000ft – however this apparently still left it within range of the sophisticated surface-to-air weaponry that pro-Russia forces have been using recently to target Ukrainian military aircraft. All civilian flights have now been barred from the area of eastern Ukraine.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/mh17-pressure-o...

For those wondering what's wrong with TTIP, a while ago Geroge Monibot wrote a well documented piece about it: http://www.monbiot.com/2013/11/04/a-global-ban-on-left-wing-...

It's not how the rest of the world sees your country, it's for what the rest of the world loves your country :)

From the linked article (OK, press release):

It will, however, run (...) on the platforms that support SIMD. This includes both the client platforms (...) as well as servers that run JavaScript, for example through the Node.js V8 engine.

...and:

A major part of the SIMD.JS API implementation has already landed in Firefox Nightly and our full implementation of the SIMD API for Intel Architecture has been submitted to Chromium for review.

...and:

Google, Intel, and Mozilla are working on a TC39 ECMAScript proposal to include this JavaScript SIMD API in the future ES7 version of the JavaScript standard.

So, yes, there's definitely an intention there to put it into V8/Node.js/ES7 (guess, it will be in this exact order).

That's a bit of an off-topic but may I ask, why Haskell over Clojure. What are the differences? You partly asked that in the 2nd part, but I would like to know more. I never did any serious FP so would love to know where to start: Scala? Clojure(Script)? Haskell? F#?

Anyone knows more about "doing the rendering in web workers" part?

Is it really possible?

Someone doing it already?

Any real benefits of that (web workers have their own overhead)?

Pirated files? I thought that's what vk.com is used for and Russian gov doesn't seem to have any problems with it AFAIK.

The intention behind the introduction of KERS and now ERS and current fuel restrictions was mostly to: a) make F1 more "green" b) make F1 a platform for development of technologies that are relevant for the road cars.

Active aero isn't one of those but ERS and fuel consumption are and you can see this stuff is making its way into the normal cars already. KERS is a gimmick maybe, but I'm happy that they're tackling the problem of fuel consumption.

You can try Pinta - http://pinta-project.com/download.ashx

...and in that new, great Internet you will get the natural monopolies, same as we have them today (Google, Facebook), only this time they won't be under supervision of any democratic government.

Some here are quick to dismiss it as another attempt at "evil government seizing the control over oh-so-free Internet", whereas if you actually read what's there it's more about taking the governance over Internet out of American hands (basically what ICANN wants anyway) + doing something (not sure what exactly) to ensure the freedom in the Internet.

Not bad ideas in themselves, dunno about the execution. Personally I think it wouldn't be that bad to have some governmental control over some of the Internet functions.

Prefer this instead of leaving it at hands of corporations that only care about money (even if I agree that it's all a muddy area that can lead to some bad stuff too).

Seems that Hacker News' duplicate detection is seriously flawed, this was a huge story yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7209397

Did any of the "old media" pick up the story yet? I haven't seen anything about it on either NYT, The Post, BBC or Guardian.

Would be great if instead they would implement CSS Books "standard" http://books.spec.whatwg.org/

"Data privacy is not highly legislated or regulated in the U.S.. Although partial regulations exist, there is no all-encompassing law regulating the acquisition, storage, or use of personal data in the U.S. In general terms, in the U.S., whoever can be troubled to key in the data, is deemed to own the right to store and use it, even if the data were collected without permission."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law#United_...

What start ups and companies wish for is not always what is in the best interest of the citizen.

This is not about NSA.

Private companies gather more and more data about us without any control (especially the US-ones), so it's good that EU tries to regulate that.

1st thing EU should do is to quit the Safe Harbor fiction, preferably by walking out from that deal.

"NodeJS isn’t really functional, but if everything’s a callback and you’re single threaded, who cares?"

Anyone could elaborate on what this actually means?

Quora link where you don't have to register/log-in: http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-fo...

It's not that they don't do anything about it.

In 2012 they emission of carbon dioxide raised by 3%, but that increase was at least lower than in previous years, where it oscillated around 10% (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24742770)

29 of 71 nuclear reactors that under currently under construction are being built in China (http://world-nuclear.org/info/Facts-and-Figures/World-Nuclea...), they also have similar numbers for hydropower (see the previous link).

Try "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin.

But also remember that there's no one proper way of doing these things, it's all heuristics, not laws written in stone.

Tried to use disconnect.me as well but found it lacking in terms of features and number of trackers it's blocking, at least when compared with Ghostery. It has its' round of issues, OP is the best example, but clicking "Allow once and reload" is usually enough to solve them.

Yeah, I might have gone too far with that gutless thing, but the important thing is the final outcome on which we both agree: in the end nothing happened.

Politics and economy is not a thing of 0s and 1s - there are no clear and easy solutions that will work perfectly in every country - it's always about finding some middle-ground, where pros outweight cons.

E.g. banking regulation - sure, it won't prevent all the bad behaviour, but it will help (see Poland where state control over some banking regulations prevented banks from getting into bad mortgages). Does that mean that government should control everything? of course not! It can be somewhere in the middle (think Keynes instead of Friedman) and where's that middle also depends on the local environment and such - what worked in Poland won't necessarily work the same in Spain.

Also, I disagree with the notion that he proposes fighting the State with the State - he wants people to be the State and I agree with that to a large extent. People like to complain about politics as if they (the politics) were some aliens from the different planet. Spain is a good example here, 2-3 years ago thousands of people were protesting with slogans like "no nos representan". Yet no one from the protesters had the guts to take that movement and actually do something with it, become a leader, a politician, take a responsibility, try to change something for real. Instead they preferred to shift that responsibility back to the politicians they were protesting against. Year later people went to elections and voted the same people as before, the ones that supposedly "no les representaron".

Add to that the speed. Roundcube looks pretty good, even Horde's could make a cut GUI-wise (judging by screenshots from the latest versions), but they both lag in the speed department, comparing to GMail or Fastmail.