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It was used in the UK. I'm in Ireland. They registered the trademark in the UK and in the USA. The software framework has an Irish domain and a github page. It's so difficult in software :(
Nanowalls for smartphones
This is amazing. I quit a job at a company that did many stupid things, one of which was insist that their home rolled CSS framework did not suck. Said framework was, in all seriousness, exactly this but with shortened, cryptic names. Nightmare.
Rails is at least an order of magnitude more widespread than Django/Laravel/any of its imitators. If you take a swing at any of the follow-ons, its proponents will invariably say it's just doing what Rails does. Try to imagine a "Why Django sucks" flamepost garnering anywhere near the attention that the same does for Rails... yeah, won't happen.
A positive void coefficient doesn't have to be suicidal or stupid, it just was in that design. See: CANDU
My teenage daughter developed peanut allergies in her mid teens while traveling with a drum corps one summer. She had noticed how ill she was feeling and systematically cut out foods until she narrowed the peanut butter sandwiches (she had been an avid peanut butter eater for years before). When she got back from tour and was tested she was confirmed for strong peanut allergies and had to carry an epi-pen. However, after about a year she got tested again and now had no reaction.

I still attribute this to something else was in her system that triggered reaction in conjunction with the peanut proteins.
Have heard some arguments that the UK's (world's?) digital protocol, DAB is actually a worse experience for listeners than a decent FM station, but I'm not all that well informed on that.

Quick clarification on digital versus the kind of compression discussed in the article: with the former you're making the file size smaller and losing a little bit of quality in the process (sometimes leaving artifacts), whereas with the latter you are seeking to make the loud bits quieter, meaning you can make the whole lot louder without distortion.

Another thing worth noting is that for the vast majority of users, the car will be the best listening environment they are exposed to. When I had a very minor foray into the recording world, I remember the mix engineers trying out bouncedowns around the car park.
They couldn't. They would have to show ads from other history and not the email's contents. This would also break features such as (server-side) search and reminders (eg. flight tomorrow) via Google Now.

End-to-end is a tradeoff. But presumably they wouldn't be working on the technology if they weren't prepared to offer it in some fashion. Probably as an opt-in? Hopefully a Googler can offer more insight as I can only speculate.
Opaque Tokens in Angular 2
https://www.reddit.com/r/XCOM2/comments/45u81x/yes_xcom_2s_r...
Building for the Open API Economy
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one potential pain point is warmup time. if your app isn't doing anything, the first request may take a few seconds. it seems that once it's running, this is quick, as the VM is reused.

another thing is that although Api GW can behave like a web server for most things, some things are more restricted than with a fully programmable server. for example, you need to declare all HTTP response codes upfront, so that the pipeline can be configured. There can be only one success code (so eg returning 204 when there is no content and 200 with content from the same endpoint isn't trivial).

the third thing, that several commenters mentioned on this page, is that if you want to use API Gateway, processing binary data requires S3 or something else for storage. We currently let people convert files by using ApiGW + Lambda to get a signed URL for S3, then post to S3, another Lambda converts it into PDF and saves back to S3, and the client polls S3 to pick up the result. It's fantastically scalable with that design, much better than posting a file to heroku and then getting a synchronous response, but it takes a bit of rearranging the code to work.
We have a system like this in my hometown, Bergen. I live 50 meters away from two parking garages containing four share cars each. I can reserve any of these at any time via a web app, given that no one have reserved them already.

Payment is $10 per usage plus a surcharge per kilometer driven. Key management is handled either with an electronic card key which checks the current reservation status, or key drop boxes to which all members have access. It's both cheaper and more convenient than owning a car, since I only use a car once per week on average.
That would depend on the kind of toxins, not just "toxins". Also, nothing works in isolation: Maybe living in the East (I'm from the East too) had other - mitigating - advantages. Whet we are looking at is what to an account would be just the final "net income" number - but behind 10 cents there can be a multibillion dollar business or a teenager who spent most of his/her pocket money. So I don't think it can be decided so easily. Do you think the people thinking about this are not aware of global statistics and did not consider simple explanations?
Uber riders will pay up to 9.9x in surge pricing if their phone battery’s low
They are looking for an explanation... and that would explain the average website, but the question still exists when you have a culture that produces a Toyo Ito, what would their best websites look like?

For a lot of people, there isn't a good enough answer yet and that is why the question gets asked over and over again.
Idea monopolies are hardly new; they're called patents.

I'm gonna say that if software counts as technology that can be patented, then patents on APIs are equally valid. It takes effort to design a good API, just as it takes effort to write good software.

Of course the whole notion is a terrible idea and should be scrapped.
> but recognizing the difference between what you’d like to be true and what actually is serves as a prerequisite for closing that gap

...and not recognizing it is a prerequisite for running a company.
Nested try/catch/finally blocks won't lose return values anymore. Yay.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72188
True statement. Having been visiting China annually for the past 10 years and seeing the transportation transition from mopeds to E-bikes first hand, I can attest to that. And the price has really been going down significantly because of the mass production and economy of scale (exports are a major contribution). Typically e-bikes with traditional car batteries are starting at around 2000 RMB. Some newer ones with Li-ion batteries are priced slightly higher.

However, e-bikes are seeing a decline and/or full ban in top-tier Chinese cities due to new traffic regulations and new road design. It is still the predominant transportation tool in 2nd-tier and small cities where public transportation is scarce and downtown areas are smaller.
Web/Mobile is still as broken as it ever was.
This is journalism 101. Inverted triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid
I want to take a moment to ask my fellow non-americans, do you also hate the american style of storytelling in news articles? It's obnoxious, useless and recently, counter productive because we are overloaded with information and need to skim quickly over many different news.
Neither of which contain the word "objective", and the second one says "lower than liked score" and "opinion".
The best line I heard "we don't hire a$$$holes". That's a check-mate statement. I think to myself what if I don't get selected :-( . I did get selected only to realise they hired people down the line whom I'd consider rectal orifices. Can't catch a break really...
Unfortunately, Hearthstone's card design has aggressively worked against their randomness-mitigation in the game structure.

In their search for 'dramatic' cards, they've started introducing "triggers on draw" effects, "get a random creature from your deck" effects (maybe it'll cost 2 mana, maybe 10!), and my favorite - "play this card, then shuffle it back, then play it again, then all your creatures become different ones".

The card designers have consistently chosen exciting events over stable gameplay, to the point where it's far more random than MTG.
The reduced pollution would probably reduce at least some of the health care costs. Plus we spend way too much on wars and killing people ("defense"). Use some of that money first.
Let’s look at the German Asse II and Schacht Konrad.

We deposited lots of nuclear waste, and years later discovered it was leaking into the tap water.

Now we have to dig it all back up.
> had a positive void coefficient of reactivity

Had and still does. There are 11 RBMK blocks still operating.
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For 90% of the traffic the IP is mapped to an exact long/lat so a response for our office would be - Latitude":59.32556915283203,"Longitude":18.068561553955078
or geohash - u6sc7pvh
I think nuclear is a technology that is beyond what the current human society can support - we really are not ready for the technology until we deal with uneducated masses, fundamentalism, techno-literacy etc
Funny to see this guy complain about platzkart train car. I've been doing 24h+ trips like this regularly before travelling by air became more convenient and affordable.

Also the last photo of the bridge is by Prokudin-Gorskii from early 20th century. It doesn't even look like this anymore.
Zimbra works remarkably well.
I'm a huge fan of Illustrio, so useful and easy-to-use!
It's a placebo. It's never appropriate to prompt your users for a review, so it can accomplish its task of asking users when appropriate without doing anything at all.
How is this done? I've heard so much about how intractably large the current body of law is. Can you really just grep through the legal database like that? Can I grep through the legal database?

I can think of many other changes we should make, if it's that easy.
Book review: Disrupted: Dan Lyons v the startup bubble (at Hubspot)
Source press: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/african-nile-...
Depends if it was written well in the first place. I am maintaining a Django app, and because they have gone for "thin models fat controllers philosophy" (the opposite of Djangos best practices) it is a pain in the arse to modify stuff that should be easy.
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Archive of Interesting Code
IIRC it only worked like that if you had the race pick Uncreative. Normally you got to pick which tech in the category you wanted to research. So you could plan ahead if you were going with particular strategy (like Darlok spying with all the spy techs).

But Master of Orion 1 did have a somewhat randomized tech research series.
> What are you supposed to say; we hire mediocre developers?

That’s a perfectly valid business strategy, and one that is practiced by many big consulting firms. You put someone’s butt in a chair, you are billing for them by the hour, and if they won’t work 90, 100, or 110 hours a week, there’s always someone else who wants their job.

They’re not that great, and they know it, and you like it like that.
These are valid issues, but one that has a better, actually scalable solution: CSS preprocessors.

You can name your magic numbers/RGB values. You can move your shared behaviour into mixins. You can stop using float for god's sake - it's 2016, we have flexbox now (OK, so that's not related to preprocessors, but it's still true).

Sure, if it's a quick hack or something you're throwing together for personal reasons, use whatever mixture of inline-styles, "visually semantic" classes, and table layout goes fastest for you. But if the point is "scalability" (In the sense of size of team working together), then this halfway point between semantic classes and inline styles is definitely not the right way to achieve it.
Artificial intelligence gets into auditing, what’s next?
A neat read I think, even touches on LANDR, a new-ish and pretty compelling service. I've only tried it once but it worked as intended - tweaked a file, made a difference. Improved? Too subjective, but a tentative yes.

I do take such an article with a grain of salt though, because a lot of the "tightest" sounding music since 2010 - in my PERSONAL opinion - is in drum & bass and, more than likely, not run through too much outboard gear like is romanticized here. Smart routing in Ableton and into iZotope isn't outside the reach of intelligent, determined artists and producers of many stripes.

I just tend to think "Oh, yeah Grimes sounds pretty good, so does Radiohead, but compared to what's happening in a Netsky or Camo & Krooked track, just different ballparks altogether." Like I said, that's me and my ears. Having great outboard gear can truly make a difference if the source material is great.
Well to be fair soldiers are humans and aren't just completely disposable. Read "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge to see the fun and games a 19 year old kid from Mobile Alabama got to have as a US Marine in the Pacific. Spoiler alert, his experience was probably about as bad as anything a human could endure.
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Obviously that is not the case.
sure, I searched for tests just before I posted my comment.

http://ctheu.com/2015/08/17/react-inline-styles-vs-css-stupi...

I use react inline styles in some situations where it's appropriate. on large tables or SVG (eg. with zillions of styled circles) there will be issues.

if you are sending HTML from a server with inline-styles then you will have much bigger problems with bandwidth.

This is where tachyon and basscss can provide a clean way for the day to day simple styling tasks like "needs more padding here" "make that title bigger there" without writing up stylesheets with repetitive margin, float, etc. for every single view in your app or every page on your website.
>That domain name must have cost them a fortune.

It may well be of a cost magnitude for it to appear in a future SEC filing.

(This is all conjecture - I have no knowledge of the situation, nor is this financial advice, etc)
Interesting. This is definitely an industrial-era problem that would explain why allergies are seemingly more prevalent. I wonder if it could also apply to gluten 'sensitivity'? Whereabouts do you think the mercury came from - food or water?

(See also the recent discussions around lead including in Flint, Michigan)
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..it doesn't strike me as particularly American? I could easily see a Danish article written in this style. I don't dislike it but I do agree that the point should be at the top. Trying to build a crescendo seems to build on the assumption that your reader is fascinated by your writing already. It might be true if you have a following. Maybe this author does, I am not sure.
> The reasons people hold off on "upgrading" Windows versions is not mainly because of compatibility, but other factors like unwanted UI changes and removed features, and particularly with Windows 10, the increased data-collection intrusiveness and "we own your machine" attitude

Since quite a lot of people swear that they will never upgrade to Windows 10 for those reasons (esp. the data-collection, privacy, telemetry, and forced update issues), what do you think of the feasibility of a software product that blocks Microsoft from doing all those things?

This product would automatically configure Windows 10 to minimize all those intrusions, and where Microsoft does not provide an opt-out or disable setting, it would actively block the intrusive activity (like the way anti-virus software blocks certain malware actions).

Is this technically feasible? Would it violate Microsoft's terms and conditions? Is there enough of a market?
Most of the GNU packages do not have GUIs. They work fine on android. You can easily chroot into a full Debian install, among other options.

And there are X server apps to provide you the full experience.
4 Important Sections of Your Business Credit Report
I think I saw a couple of good posts on [0] GrowthHackers. I don't think they have a lot of stuff on business models, but discussions on market strategies go in depth.

[0] http://growthhackers.com/posts
Building Rock Paper Scissors with Botkit
After all the build-up, this guy's theory doesn't sound new at all... Am I missing something?
A lot of it is here:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text

Of course the hard part isn't looking for things to change.
Also, humans prioritize and are sensitive to visual input more than sound to a large degree.

I'm sure dogmen would have excellent audio systems and have perfected HD smell-o-vision alongside black and white VGA monitors.
To me the true test of innovation is the product that makes 100 m - 1 b but replaces a product/market that made 1-10b. Those are the products/services the tech companies aren't going to be looking at.
Furry site hacked, content deleted using ImageMagick exploit
There was an excellent segment on This American Life about a man who cured his own severe allergies by giving himself hookworms: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/404/e...
State of Monetization at Duolingo
I found the experiment further down to explain the theory even better.

> Some of the mice are ordinary, but others are not: using genetic engineering techniques, Medzhitov’s team has removed the animals’ ability to make IgE. They can’t get allergies.

> The animals may be spared the misery of hay fever caused by the ragweed pollen that will inevitably drift into their box on currents of air. But Medzhitov predicts they will be worse off for it. Unable to fight the pollen and other allergens, they will let these toxic molecules pass into their bodies, where they will damage organs and tissues.

> “It’s never been done before, so we don’t know what the consequences will be,” says Medzhitov. But if his theory is right, the experiment will reveal the invisible shield that allergies provide us.
How about we don't like puppet accounts?
If the mission is feeding starving children, or curing cancer, or public service, then yes, I want people who are motivated by the mission. But usually the mission, the real mission, is to make the founders exceptionally wealthy, and forgive me if that doesn't get me out of bed in the morning.
>One of the beauties of EVs is you don't need charging stations
>Your car refuels while it's parked in your garage.

So not only do you need to own a charging station you also need a house and a garage, got it.
Sound interesting will do check
Use Illustrio each time i need icons,illustrations... Very usefull app !
Since we're talking about anecdotes and allergies, I've heard multiple people (body building enthusiasts let's say) that they lost their hayfever allergies after taking a course of body-building steroids.

I know from experience that taking steroids reduces the immune system response, so there is something to that.
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Pirate.

If it makes you feel better, pay and then "pirate".

As long as Netflix & co keep giving the frankly ridiculous excuse of preventing piracy as the reason I can't stream 4K content with mpv, I'm going to remain very reluctant to give them my money. (I'd be much less reluctant if their anti piracy efforts actually worked, but they don't and they never will)
The "No assholes" rule should really be the #1 rule when hiring.

I've heard a lot of complaints from friends and family in the tech industry over the years, as I've had my own issues. While details vary, it always comes down to the acting up of one obvious asshole or another. It infects the whole team/company/project.

In the long run, a team of average but positively motivated people more often than not beats a team with an asshole in it, even if he/she is a rockstar/guru/ninja/jedi/whatever. And their lives won't be miserable in the process.
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Yup, and if I get a nice block of stock options, then I'll be just as motivated as the founders! Been there.
It's almost trivial if you use the customary definition of "top 1%" as an income percentile, and accept that income is a measure of productivity.
Define horrific. The traffic that generates those calls also generates lots of revenue :) It is also extremely spikey. This is a big win for Lambda since we are only pay for what we need and don't have to worry about scaling EC2 up and down to meet demand.

I have one hard example I can share. We had a node service that was running on ec2 and cost ~$2500/mo. Moved the code directly over to lambda. Now ~$400/mo.

Quantifying other costs is a bit harder but do you have a DevOps person on your team? Or multiple people? How much do they get paid?
"We Only Hire the Best" doesn't have to have any truth to it to be of use to companies. Their purpose in hiring is to extract value from candidates. Convincing people that they'd be amongst the best is all you have to do. The rhetoric comes from existing employees, who may be rationalising their decision to work there. It feels good to be amongst "the best" - I want to be amongst the best! I am sure I'm not the only one with such aspirations. If being 'the best' means over-fitting to the requirements of a company, then the most successful (viz. "best") candidates will optimise for what that company wants. It means by the time they arrive at work they're already largely conditioned into behaving as their new company would like them to.

Yes, "the best" is a transparent lie. It doesn't matter though, because it serves the interests of companies who espouse it. DHH is calling a spade a spade here - but I'd hazard that the vast majority of the HN crowd already know.

Also, globally, there are lot of extraordinarily shit software people out there. If we define quality by "gets things done and doesn't break things and act in a crappy and deleterious manner", then it is not difficult for "the best" to mean the upper 60% of software people. It is completely reasonable to assume that the companies with this mantra do indeed hire from the top 60%, if only because of how many rubbish people there are.
Large drug deals between gangs are vulnerable to stakeouts and busts if one of the parties involved leaks the meeting time and location.
Does he elaborate on what kind of noxious chemicals, and how that explains why allergy has been on the rise in the 20th century? (I skimmed the article but couldn't find it)
Ok, I scanned through quickly, but here is the conclusions as far as I can tell.

Allergies has an important function. The problem is the severity of it. A weak allergic reaction is what protects us from toxins, viruses etc, however for some reason the system goes in overdrive in some people and that is not good.

It might seem like there is no significant difference between this an previous understanding. But the significance as far as I can tell is that previously we thought all allergic reactions no matter how small was useless and wrong by the body. The idea was that any allergic reaction is a misfiring, while this idea suggests it isn't firing which is the problem it is the magnitude which is the problem.
Absolutely brilliant! Because of its universal nature and compositional design, one only has to download this CSS page once from the primary CDN and it can be used for everything everywhere. One could even argue this should be a standard browser component.
We only hire the best. We are going to consult all the best experts and we'll get the best people in the office to make 37 Signals great again. It will be a beautiful thing.
> particularly with lithium as there are only 3 companies in the world that do industrial-scale lithium mining, that too in a handful of mines around the world.

It appears that there are more than 3 lithium mining companies[1]. Care to provide your source to prove otherwise?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_as_an_investment
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>We want people who are motivated by the mission

Startup hiring process in a nutshell.