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I disagree. I want the same access to features regardless of the device, screen size or input type (within reason).

I don't need or want developers to figure out which screen or device I should be using for a task.

Yes some devices can do things better at some things. But that's NOT an excuse to withhold a feature that's a reason to make the feature work better on said device.

I don't care how hard it is. I don't care what device the dev prefers. Make it scale.
> That's a little bit like saying: don't learn web development, it's too easy, invest in learning fundamentals of computer science instead.

But that's very solid advice, not just for an academic. A lot of the web development jobs are either outsourced or marginalized by newer and more powerful frameworks. It's an unfortunate side effect of the fast moving field of informatics - your skills become either redundant or invaluable very quickly.
Isn't the above mindset the mindset used for debugging?
The title of the article is "Switzerland will be the first country in the world to vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month", and the omission of the word "on" led me to believe that they had actually voted for the proposal, rather than that they will vote on the proposal, which is what the article actually says. It is a minor point, but I think the title as it is is slightly misleading.
>> It's actually unreasonable for parents these days to expect that kids will achieve their own level of success, because the distribution of rewards in society now fall so much more disproportionally to the handful at the very top of any field than they did in their parent's generation, and the generation before that.

That's meritocracy.
As a user building packages I like autotools because of its uniformity. If I want to change the install root I use "--prefix". If I want to crosscompile I can set "--build" and "--host". If I need to set a compiler flag, autotools actually observes CFLAGS.

A few years ago I was trying to install a python extension and I couldn't figure out how to set a cflag on the native code it was compiling. It ignored CC, CFLAGS, etc. The documentation said nothing about it, super frustrating.
From my understanding the money is far from evenly divided.
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> Shimano, Campagnolo and SRAM all make batteries designed to fit in the seat tube for electronic gear shifting.

Electronic shifting uses almost no power; the derailleur just has to periodically move a few millimeters. There's absolutely no comparison.

In total, there is "plenty of room in a frame" and so it's probably theoretically doable, it would just require much more work to pack it with cells and wire everything up. The companies currently making these motor kits are probably using off-the-shelf battery packs.

Maybe you're right, though, that a smaller battery providing "bursts of power" would be enough to make a difference though.
What a truly crap idea.
If you learn web development and apply for a job as computer scientist, there's a bit of a mismatch.

I think the author is assuming that "data scientist" means scientist more than developer.

But I agree, there's more than enough applications coming out of this for developers.
To elaborate a bit further, I feel like the best way of stating it is that in large organizations changing or allocating resources to anything (no matter how obvious) needs a sponsor in the form of a person.

That sponsor typically signs on because they really believe thing needs to get done and/or expect that if thing succeeds then they will look good.

Rewriting working code is a hard project to find a sponsor for, unless you're lucky to have software engineers high up in the hierarchy with clout.
We've been using this for about 6 months to bang out prototypes very quickly. Happy with it so far.
Nah, I'm not accusing or anything. though I should have stricken the "because we shouldn't." from the previous post but didn't because I was on the edge of falling asleep and editing nonlinearly and missed it. But if you can compare a wing to Mussolini I can surely point to the virtues, no? :)

> conservatives in the US supported slavery and segregation for centuries

while progressives in the US only supported eugenics and forced sterilization of minorities - thank God that's behind us, amirite?

> and still work to limit voting

You mean that they work to limit voter fraud? ;)

> I don't happen to agree that everything you named is actually right-wing, including the rule of law

Look at the current American right wing's complaints about President Obama and the rule of law. They've been complaining since his administration railroaded the GM bankruptcy settlement through the courts and gave big-money to the unions (reliable Democratic campaign contributors) instead of the senior bondholders who had paid extra for the legal right to first dibs. Later, it became a question of executive agencies being Excessively Creative with the way they wanted to enforce things: The use of the Clean Air Act, originally passed to clean up acute and toxic pollution like acid rain, in order to fight global warming, a gas which has always composed a substantial portion of the atmosphere. Various maneuvers regarding Obamacare, like whether an exchange established by the federal government should count as "established by a state". Immigration laws.

Is this noise at least as much situational whining as it is right-wing principle? Hell yes it is. Normal in most parties, obviously - one of the reasons they need each other to be healthy, and keep each other honest.

I have no idea whether the right wing of India (which sparked this thread) does the same. I won't dismiss the idea out of hand just because they're being dinged as 'right-wing' and they're pursuing uniform civil codes (though the allegations of being hostile to religious freedom will in fact bother me).
At the 13 second mark you'll see the rider at the front of the pack, in light blue, getting approached by a car with the same colour scheme. Now try to keep your eye on that rider to the end of the video.
I believe in the creative power of boredom. Boredom and lack of distractions amongst kids create the most creative environment and nurture real interest and exploration.

Today's kids are oversaturated with distractions and their lives are fully planned around activities. So they live according to templates, but not according to their own motivators.

Then again, having a child myself (10 months old) I have noticed many parents have so many activities and things planned themselves that they distract their children (read consume content on iPads) in order to pacify them. It's a circle.
Interesting. My experience is different - I write my throwaway code starting with a free form prose, dumping all my vague ideas into a text, which is then filled with a very volatile code to explore the listed ideas. It results in a mess, of course, but a mess with a track of what I tried to achieve.

I'd always rewrite what is left of such an effort from scratch, but it is easy to do so with all the literate brain-dump surrounding my code.
I have. Zurb (foundation for sites, email or apps) as a library is not far from Bootstrap, but it's not a tool similar to Bootstrap Studio.
Skype bug that allowed hackers to find users IP information was fixed
Spies generally operate under diplomatic cover and are returned to the embassy after being caught since they have "diplomatic immunity." Then they fly home, have their alias changed, and never return to that country. Killing a diplomat, spy or not, would cause some huge issues between the two nations involved. So, no, countries are not likely to ever kill spies.
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They have been getting ready to "go pro" for a really long time now.

In the interim, their online tool has serious limitations (it has been a few months since I last tried, but iirc it wouldn't let me save my templates, add images, make edits after exporting or even edit generated styles).
Creative people tend to set their own goals. Winning Nobel Prizes or revolutionizing a field might not be what they want out of life. A 'boring' day job that supports the family can be the perfect tool to let you spend the rest of your time on hobbies and passions.

I am an underachiever in my career, to be sure. But I have made a lot of art, climbed many mountains, hiked what seems like every trail in Colorado, and learned a few crafts, while also maintaining a marriage and raising a family. I'm happy with my life, no matter what the world thinks of it.
I've made an app & website that lets you quickly try out java snippets on android, e.g. if you see a code snippet on stack overflow you can just copy paste it and throw it in and let it run on your phone. But I didn't continue with it because no one uses it :)
https://runondroid.com/
Haha, best characterization - "loves its poodle, but"
Opera mini does its job, and approaches QR codes the right way, being an input alternative to the keyboard reachable from the omnibox
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>I always ask my team, how is that as developers we always want free software but yet want a salary hike every year as a software programmer!

A lot of people are short-sighted and self-centered. It's completely and totally rational to buy this product if you're billing at $75/hr and this tool saves you 10+ hours that you couldn't justify billing.

Some people just don't "get it" - that you must produce something of value before you can consume, and that every exchange must leave everyone better off. This is what used to upset me about the software pirates, torrenters, etc. It'll all catch up in the end though, so no need to over-analyze people like this.
With DNS and CAs as broken as they are, I'm skipping this and wondering not just go back to using IP addresses. (I am also the resident contrarian so...)
I don't think that's a high number at all for Switzerland - infact it would be quite a struggle to live on that amount after paying for rent, health insurance, utilities and food. I think the amount being proposed would still give quite a high incentive to people to work, as the standard of living on the minimum would be basic to say the least.
I'm aware I'm nitpicking and maybe too theoretical now, but the processing time would vary in whatever application the user is using.. I'm with negus here who basically means the same I guess. The generic danger here (regarding benchmarking) is that you're explicitly also benchmarking curl. In case curl/"the web client" would handle 30x redirects super inefficiently, these results could lead to wrong assumptions.
Gen-Xer HN lurker here: 16% of monthly income goes to mortgage & utilities, I live in one of the most affordable metro areas in the country, and I am confused as to why people put up with the high cost of living on the coasts.

Yes San Francisco, LA, New York jobs pay 20-30% more, and it is probably 18.5% funner to live in those areas for a few years, but the cost of living is 200-300% more.
I was about to write this. Minor mistake, but misleading nonetheless.
By Asian you mean CJK right?
OSS is not some silver bullet to fix its startup problem. Microsoft needs cross platform more than it needs OSS. It needs tools that feel as lightweight as Python or node.js. It needs a platform that easily interops with everything else, instead of being limited to just Windows, IIS and SQL server.
Haha, cheers lad.
Same with my uni. And then you have sites that only work with, and others that only work without the www.

But it makes sense. the first subdomain before the uni domain specifies the faculty, many of which have their own datacenters. Then many of those have yet their own servers in their network, and often www. is one added later on.
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Voices from the Old Bailey (18th Century Smuggling)(audio)
Slightly OT: Is it just me or is Bootstrap a bit of an overkill nowadays? I know you can import what you need and keep the lib size small but the overall framework feels aged and many feature are no rocket-science anymore. Still some features are handy but again, is it worth it?

Without any customization you have this typical thousands times seen Bootstrap look. Only few of the available Bootstrap themes have an original and from Bootstrap outstanding look but then you add even more bloat to your site figuring out what CSS you could leave out. You could also customize yourself but again why not quickly do the stuff without Bootstrap? FE development got quite far these days and today's CSS and JS is not your daddy's HTML anymore, Flexbox is great and there're tons of specialized and modular libs.

Besides, Sass and Less were never my favorites but this would be a minor pick. They are ok to get along.

Last but not least they claim to be mobile-first which is IMO far off and the biggest deal breaker. Just open the Bootstrap page on a newer iPhone (eg 6) and open the menu. There's some significant lag until the menu opens and then the menu-open animation sluggishly stutters running at very low framerate. This could have be done with native CSS and hardware-accelerated 3d-transforms in a responsive and butter-smooth manner with a just few lines. Just having a responsive grid-system doesn't make Bootstrap mobile-first.

I believe that Bootstrap could be good for non consumer facing sites where the audience is less demanding. Eg you need to build an internal reporting dashboard for some company departments and it doesn't have to slick, smooth or sexy. Just a dashboard which is faster and more flexible than sending Excel sheets back and forth. Then yes, Bootstrap is a good choice.

Don't want to be too negative, maybe it's just my cluenessless but could somebody enlighten me: why do I need else Bootstrap in 2016?
I'm just curious how you calculated the 18.5% figure
Doesn’t safari mobile do that?
Well yeah, I wasn't trying to claim it came out of nowhere. Just that the convention broadened to such a degree that it didn't make sense anymore, but we still understand it because humans are all about symbols.
This article would be much better if it would specify whom is it addressed to.

My wife works in internet advertising, managing AdSense campaigns and stuff. The fact that she's able to write simple scripts in Javascript to automate some of her tasks already puts her ahead of her colleagues. Her whole company doesn't seem to have even a freshman-level of understanding of mathematical statistics, judging by how they operate and organize things internally. (Unfortunately, she has no power to change that). A competitor that would have just these two obvious things would already easily surpass them — but for now, they are bring more profit than a lot of SF-based startups could hope for.

Big data, deep learning? This stuff may be "obvious" for a computer scientist or a competent developer, but it sure as hell is not "obvious" to a lot of real world businesses out there, and there's a lot of value to be created by applying these things.
You should look into http://www.stampready.net - along with Campaign Monitor's email builder (https://www.campaignmonitor.com/features/create-custom-email...), it's one of the best drag-and-drop tools for creating really good, responsive emails. The problem with any of these tools is that they still spit out sometimes convoluted code, but that can't really be avoided since they need to cover their asses in literally dozens of different popular email clients.

If you're looking to code, you should check out Litmus Builder (http://litmus.com/email-builder), a code editor specifically built for email design. Has a bunch of templates available, instant previews in a bunch of different clients, email-specific CSS inlining, etc. Full disclosure: I work at Litmus, but even if I didn't, I'd still use Builder for the previews alone.
I'm submitting this because it's an interesting bit of history presented in a nice format.

With the benefit of hindsight taxes on tea seem to have been a bad idea.

> Smuggling was a trade in the 18th century - sprawling from the brutal criminal underworld, to shops, to chic drawing rooms - brandy, tobacco, pepper, lace, French silks. But one commodity above all was worth killing for and facing the noose - tea.

> In fact two thirds of the tea which was drunk in Britain was smuggled in along the Southern coastline of Britain. Every single inhabitant of coastal ports like Rye would have known what was going on, probably most were drawn into it - and many ended up in the Old Bailey in London.
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>So having fewer rules supposedly leads to more creative children, but do those kids do well later in life?

Is having no rules a steadfast rule? Chew on that one for a while :)

And while you're thinking about that, realize that most children growing up in poor environments don't have many rules to follow. Few people would consider poor communities as bastions of creativity (not to say there isn't creative things happening in these communities, just they are not perceived that way).

The problem with this article and others like it is the subjects - children - are not one thing in a vacuum. Some children will thrive in a structureless home life. But most won't. Some children will thrive with rigid structure. But most won't. So what's the answer? It depends on the kid. From my experience, most children need some sort of structure in their lives. They simply don't have the faculties to deal with the complexity of how life is today. That's what the parent is for. But to go overboard with rules generally doesn't work very well either.
While the FRED data might be ~%50 of the datasets, most of those table are 200-4000 rows, it is not nearly %50 of the rows of data.

the remaining 50% of datasets have a lot of gems

quality in the breadth of data is important

state-wide liquor license, corp reg. OSHA is great data. AMS shipping records. FDA adverse events. Oil and Gas well locations/production. Consolidated weather reports since 1800... im almost certainly forgetting some.
Round is 2-3 days, yeah. IMO it gives up the major drawcard of the Pebble (ie. the battery life and simple 'just the basics' design) for no advantage other than being smaller and prettier. I've got a Time Steel and it lasts around a week, and it's chunky but not hugely so. I like it.
10 Creativity Barriers to Overcome in Your Business
What if we got rid of the modern toilet and replaced it with a hole and you had to squat to take a dump? With a hose instead of a sink? Less hemorrhoids, less space. Less paper.
As an adult who loves dressing with vibrant colours, I wonder if I'm still developing my senses or just look ridiculous!
For the video in the second link, I get the arguments about the camera angle possibly being misleading, but it looks pretty damning.
If you have a larger setup, you’d want to already serve the 301 on your load balancer.
I admitted it was irrational! Twice!
Their supply chain is why competitor can't make phones that come close in terms of fit, finish and quality. Everyone else is stuck with second rate parts because Apple has the supply chain on lock.
I'm surprised the Soviets let her go. Wonder why they did that ?
This is so useful! Thank you!
what are the alternatives?
I have to agree with this. I grew up in a village (pop < 250) in the mountains, and those were some of the most creative years of my life. When the entire town jokes that watching grass grow or paint dry is a fun thing to do in summer, you quickly learn to entertain yourself in novel ways.

As a side note, one other thing I think this has done is make me comfortable with silence. During the summer break when I would do long camping trips, sometimes I could go days without speaking, and I enjoyed it. Now I see people all around who seem to need and want something going on at all times. Since I no longer live in the mountains, meditation outside helps assuage my need for silence and solitude, but I am considering building an isolation tank.

On subject, I agree that freedom begets creativity. I love that I could mark a place on the forest service map, list my supplies, and say "if Im not back by sundown on day 3, then call the forest service". Thats a level of independence and freedom that was encouraged in my family that has served me well in many areas since.
That is pretty shocking. Wouldn't all the other riders be pretty badly pissed off with that, or is it just something everyone gets up to when they can?
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Ask HN: Why are we all connected to the same network?
> Here is how it should work: I log in at home and I get full history of the channel (or as much as they keep, but at least last 24 hours), so I can see what's been going on. Then I leave for work (I leave my client open at home) and during commute I might popin and see what is going on, again I should get full history regardless what has happened while I was gone (or if nothing had happened). Then I get to work and again I should get full history of all messages and all these clients should get updated history whenever there are new messages.

I use IRCCloud every day and this is exactly how it works. History is shared between devices and is still collected even when you're not online. I'm not sure why it wasn't working for you.
What about Pascal's Wager? It's nonsense, given an impossible number of gods to honour
Making use of local storage requires javascript, which definitely adds to the amount of garbage traffic!
I am inclined to believe her when she says it's not her bike. In legal terms, the chain of custody was likely broken, and a lookalike bike got accidentally brought to the officials.

We'll see soon enough. With the amount of cameras and witnesses around it shouldn't be too hard to get to the bottom of this.

It will be interesting to see how the battery was hidden.

In Dutch:
http://www.demorgen.be/sport/van-den-driessche-fiets-is-van-...
So we can talk to each other over it?

I don't really get what you are asking?
Well, the $50 is low for someone who’s going to use it professionally, but if you just want to make one or two sites (and never use it again afterwards), it’s probably a bit too expensive.
(Web developer) (1 day job, 1 startup, sometimes freelance) 15 hours ish - 6am to 9pm / day during the week. Weekend another 4-6 hours / day
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I'm very impressed, thanks for this app. Until now, I used Pencil for prototyping on linux, which was not very efficient because it's more focused on desktop app building.

Totally love the fact that there's a real browser behind and I can just add bootstrap classes on elements I want. Great job, instant hook.
It might sound like a lot, but in the Swiss context, it's not that much. It's a really expensive country to live in, especially in the main cities like Zurich and Geneva. For you 2,256€ is great, but in Switzerland, it's considered good income for a student/intern, that's how expensive it is. (compare that to Portugal where they can pay a intern 150€/month).
A good time to be a lawyer in the Valley...
Fair enough. I was talking about synchronisation of threads though.
I mean why are we all connected to the same network? And why not on another network?
That really depends on what you want to do - I bet there are still people making very decent living after learning how to make WordPress themes in 2005. Sure, you need to keep up to date and constantly learn, but you don't necessarily need to know details about how Apache works if you're just making a portfolio page.

I don't want to discourage anyone from learning hard topics - it can be very rewarding and useful. I just object to the sentiment that learning how to use a tool has no value if you don't have an intimate understanding of it. It still gives you the power to solve new problems.
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