skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is spending the time and resources on creating a non-JS site worth it

Comments like these make me wonder if any of the people saying PE is hard ever tried it at all. The whole point of progressive enhancement is that you don't create a separate non-JS website.
Why would make it any more difficult? You can just put the chip in place after you are done.
The Koch brothers also joined the Obama administration in trying to take on occupational licensing. Similar sort of vein: government overreach making life harder for people.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/09/char...
Restaurants that focus on quality frequently change the menu, very often following the seasonality of their ingredients (asparagus season, etc).

Same can be seen in high-quality fashion. A new collection every season, comprised of a few well crafted items.

And don't get me wrong, I have no qualms with fast food. I find it just interesting how few have bothered to look behind the curtain given all the cooking shows, books, etc. Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential came out ages ago.
Other benefit is the web version can potentially run the javascript in the browser instead of waiting for a network call. Not sure what the security implications are here.
University of Cambridge - Select Test: The Psychometrics Centre
Taking CRISPR from Clipping Scissors to Word Processor
Private clusters are in open beta: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/priva....
My car has a 2005 Kenwood head unit with a 30 pin connector. It has worked fine with every iPhone including my iPhone 7, using a 30-pin to Lightning connector. What support is missing?
Ask HN: Do you actually use contactless payments/Apple Pay? If not, why not?
I travel around the world and am disappointed to see minimal use of contactless payments even in very developed areas. Checkout experiences are slow and less secure even as we already have the technology to do better.

Examples:

- USA: checkout line at Whole Foods in Mountain View: I pay in seconds with Apple Pay, people in front of me fumble with credit cards or cash. Everyone has an iPhone in their hands.

- Tokyo: people use Suica cards at train station turnstiles, but cards or cash otherwise. Most (all?) of these people are holding an iPhone or another NFC-capable phone.

- Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong: same story. For a few months, Apple Pay advertisements [1] were ran in Taipei but I didn't see a visible change in consumer behavior.

When I do (rarely) see people using Apple Pay, people tend to rub their phone onto the reader, not realizing the operation is contactless.

If HN audience is representative of the most cutting-edge early adopter crowd, thought this would be the place to ask:

a. Do you actually use Apple Pay or a similar technology?

b. If not, why not?

c. Have you successfully converted a non-technical friend or family member?

d. How far away do you think we are from some sort of mass adoption and what steps (ads, consumer education) would it take?

e. Bonus question: receipts, ugh. How often do you decline a paper receipt?

[1] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0fQkyon098
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They use multiple types of cloud storage; the data is encrypted and Google isn’t processing it, just storing it.
Title buries the lede! The coolest part of this is compiling tensorflow to webassembly. Awesome! Are you planning to open source the toolchain when it's ready?
Given the context of militia and state, I read it more as
a right of local governments to keep the means of self
defense, not necessarily a "human right."

You might enjoy listening to a podcast episode I heard a few months back; "More Perfect - The Gun Show" [1]

It taught me many fascinating things - like that before the 1960s the second amendment was interpreted differently; the right was was seen as only relating to militias, and the NRA was an organisation of sports enthusiasts, and their limited political activity was mostly pro-gun-control.

And one of the first groups to advance the ignore-the-bit-about-the-militia-its-just-an-example interpretation were the Black Panthers, who sought to reduce police brutality by having police patrols followed by armed groups of their activists.

[1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-per...
Personally, I've found a couple of things that probably aren't what you're looking for, but have been important lessons for me. The first thing is that I found that pushing too much too early is a lot of work and has very little benefit over the long term. If you wait until they're ready to learn a concept and put it to use, picking it up is so much faster and easier that the marginal return of all that early work seems to be near zero.

That said, if it's fun then there's no harm in it and keep it up. If it ever gets to be no fun though, my advice would be to let it go until they actually need it.

As far as games go, look for something that's fun first and mathematical second. I like pencil and paper games for this. We play them together often while waiting for meals at restaurants or during other down times. Rarely do I call attention to the mathy nature of the game, it's just a fun way to "be mathematical."

The other thing I think is important (that I still have a hard time living up to myself) is to really focus on things that need open-ended exploration. Particularly for children who are in school away from home, instead of trying to reinforce what the teachers are probably already doing a good job of teaching, find ways to get your kids to investigate things on their own. Games with known optimal strategies can be a fun way to get into this because they can then go dominate at school with their new knowledge. They don't get as much opportunity for this kind of thing at school because of the necessity of teaching the mechanics of computation, but keeping their curiosity alive is a great goal to strive toward.

Some resources I like:

Martin Gardner's books

Games from http://www.papg.com/

http://www.expii.com (this is advanced stuff, but can make for fun discussions because some of the situations are neat)

The Beast Academy math curriuculum from Art of Problem Solving (starts at second grade, but when you get there I really like it). http://beastacademy.com
Interesting idea, how does one do this?

Make friends locally, save a ton of money (in case you can't work virtually later on), have entertainment locally (backed up or IRL), what else?
Creative by Default
The answer is to shrug, Atlas style.

Get off Facebook, stop eating at chain restaurants, stop buying branded clothes at national retailers, so on and so on, and encourage family and friends to do the same. Think you can’t make a difference? If as white-collar, voting, monied professionals we can’t alter the landscape with our spending habits… then use our entrepreneurial abilities to create businesses that are the antithesis of these trends.
The anti-JS crowd also tends to block tracking pixels. E.g., New Relic's tracking beacon.
I'm aware that truffle oil is synthetic, but I like it anyway. True truffle flavor isn't soluble in oil. To get the same strength of flavor with real truffles would be too expensive for me.

Truffle oil is like wonderbread. If you can afford the good stuff, you can look down your nose at it. But I'm glad both exist.
Boost site conversions by tweaking its UX based on referring url
I blogged about a growth hack to boost site conversions by tweaking the site’s UX based on the referring URL.

Post = https://blog.markgrowth.com/does-your-website-have-a-personality-104ed4a628da

Test site = https://saiscode.github.io/safe-harbor (the headings should turn orange like Hackernews’s title bar)
> I’m so unused to seeing a corporation act in the interests of their customers explicitly counter to the wishes of law enforcement and the intelligence community that I’m racking my brain trying to think of ulterior motives that explain why Apple might have this.

Apple started to assist chinese government and used their walled garden to ban all their users from using secure communications and VPNs. As soon as actual dollars are on the line Apple just like other corporations chooses dollars. I'd be vary of trusting them too much.
> Actually we use to tout Graceful Degradation back in those day.

I don't know who "we" is, but what was touted and what was actually done were, then as now, two different things. The client wanted something fancy, was only willing to pay developers who would deliver, and (crucially) was running IE as their browser. As was most of the audience for the page. Stupid or lazy it may have been, it's still what web developers did to feed their families.
Bail is set at an amount high enough that people can't afford to lose it, and thus show up to be prosecuted for a crime. If you set bails so low that most people could afford them out of pocket, they'd be so low that the risk of loss wouldn't have any deterrent effect. 60% of Americans couldn't cover even a $1,000 unexpected expense: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa....
If WebAssembly is the future for large consulting gigs
Yeah, it happens in political advertising in particular. You can't deny one or the other party's ads.
Definitely would be cool to use it as a bootstrapping method to get "into" a mesh. For example as a method for sharing wifi access credentials.

But it seems most problems you could apply this to, you may as well just use Bluetooth or BLE.
Is it just me or is the google cache link timing out as well?
One of the things I like about contests like ICPC, IPSC, etc. is that there is a specific description of the problem and example input and output.

When we read a forum like HN or a repository like Github, people commonly post about software solutions or challenges they are facing[1] without providing a sample problem and input/output examples.

Further, it has been common for many years now to describe software, startups and established web companies in terms of what it "is" or what they "are" instead of what it or they actually do.

Consider the common "web 2.0" website for company x where the inquisitive visitor spends an excessive quantity of time scanning page after page of boilerplate marketing gibberish trying to determine exactly what x company does.

Is it possible to assess any item of software or any software-based startup without seeing example input and output?

These contests demonstrate how I would like to see all software and the problems it solves to be described. These contests are a model for how I would like to see software described on the internet and www.

1. It is common to see heated arguments in forums on the merits of a particular software solution without ever describing providing a specific example of the problem. There is also the common case where individuals state that solution y "sucks" because it did not solve their problem. Yet strangely they do not provide the specifics of the problem, nor the given input nor the desired output. Without a description of the problem, example input and output, is it possible to assess software? How?
Just because it's made in-house doesn't mean it's good.
It isn't just you. Animation is destroying the Internet.
>. In other words, how much energy are we willing to spend without a beneficial use case?

That's quite a statement. Did you mean without beneficial use cases that you personally know of? Example I posted somewhere in this thread: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/2017/12/31/bitpesa-ceo-...
I generally like Mapbox but I've had some problems with the quality of their geocoding and still would get better results from Google's geocoding. It was a pretty niche thing, though: mapbox doesn't have as many European postcodes, but Europeans in several countries don't really treat postcodes with much respect to begin with. In particular, mapbox has no Eircodes whatsoever.
The East Coast of the US has the advantage an oceanic current cycling warm water from the Caribbean north, which does a lot of mediate the temperature. The Russian coast has no such current (as far as I'm aware).
"Every time you touch the map, the map is learning," Gundersen says. "It's that flywheel."

Curious quote. A flywheel stores energy. What does that have to do with a system learning as it's used? Also curious phrasing. "That flywheel"? Which flywheel?
Ironically, the spec under the CloudEvents standard is much less restricted to cloud-based objects than its early working version "open events"

We considered a number of cases where the event source is not addressable software. Heck, your local library can emit a feed of cloud events where the event source is an isbn Uri.
And if getting a mortgage or a similarly big decision was the only time you needed a credit score, that would be one thing. Problem is in the US, a stupid number of things requires a credit score, including some mobile phone contracts (!).

Having grown up in a credit-averse and cash-focused society, I don't think they're that necessary. What people do instead in build a relationship with your local bank. Of course, once you're used to a credit-driven society it's hard/impossible to go back. People apparently hate being told "No you can't afford that new car".
Sounds like a potentially sane organisation. Care to mention them?.
Back when I worked in agencyland, capacity and time tracking were the most overlooked, underestimated factors in a project. The POs and PMs I know now would say the same. When a project goes off the rails, it can too often be traced back to one or both of those issues.
I fail to see why, if that joke is actually a clear statement of the fundamental message that the project was designed to convey, and the whole reason why the FSF exists.
With the caveat that it doesn't build the app inside container, so the multi stage build is kind of underutilized here.
What the state excel and R working together?
Networking for programmers with very little free time
Money is a proxy for power in society. The fines for this breach should be enormous since it wasn't just them being hacked, they were negligent in maintaining their systems.

If the consequences of losing our data was high enough, more money would be spent protecting the data. Which I think is one of the good things for GDPR, it has stiff penalties and one of the considerations for the fine is negligence.

Equifax is probably going to end up making more money now because of the breach as more people now need "better" identity verification - a service that Equifax conveniently provides.
> If this file was recovered from a victim's computer, forensic software can sue it to bypass the prompt.

That typo gave me a good laugh
It's happening to me as well.
Not the same issue. Similar in that marketing misleads the consumer. Different in that true truffle oil (without the synthetic ingredients) would not taste like truffles. Truffles are generally kept dry and then shaved onto your food, kind of like Parmesan cheese.
The email doesn't ask them to agree to stop.

It asks them to confirm they've read and agree to the rules, which they do.

Reply to the bot, then escalate. If the bot required wording like "I'm very sorry for violating the rules", that'd be a potentially different story.
You can paste this URL into any RSS/Atom reader to receive notifications of new posts:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/gJZg

If you right-click on most blogs and choose "view page source", there is usually an RSS or Atom link somewhere in the <head> section, even if the icon doesn't appear on the page itself.
Ask HN: Is Marzipan happening this year at WWDC?
The Art of Defining Your SEO Strategy
Terry Gilliam's Quixote: This 'cursed' film is finally here
Is disallowing ads but allowing search really that bad for businesses?
Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, also had an awesome (if I say so myself - I used to work there, but not on that team) vector tile renderer for browser and mobile. Check it out at https://github.com/tangrams

Also, there was a great interactive style editor (https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-play), although it seems the demo site is broken now :-(
You proposed the initial analogy, so I was responding to that.

Determining which appeals/email/campaigns are most effective is pretty trivial with open source tools, you don't need Google for this. Honestly part of the reason Google analytics is so successful is not because it's much better than anything else, it's because it's the de facto standard, and free, and people don't see an advantage to using anything else. The advantage to using something else (ideally self hosted, or at least that you're paying for) should be clear to a privacy advocate.
I understand what you're trying to say but this logic would only work if we knew that swiss bank operations 'based in switzerland' clear more money than bitcoin.

Credit suisse/UBS main operations are in London.
Any reason you can’t just use TS and compile to JS?
forbes.com/sites might as well be wordpress.com, it's just some blog.

Pretty amazing how little such a big brand is actually worth.
It is incredibly difficult, time-consuming, highly-skilled work to create typefaces in the ranges of weights at the scale discussed in this article.

At the same time, literally nobody _needs_ an fancy custom typeface; you can accomplish any expressive task you have, competently, with the fonts accompanying your OS.

Expensive typefaces are a form of fashion. If they light you up (they do for me!), pay for them. Otherwise, use free fonts. There's really no insanity here. People pay through the nose for mechanical watches, handbags, shoes, furniture, orchids, and chefs knives, despite perfectly satisficing alternatives at minimal cost.

It would be weird to complain about the insanity of regulations that allows Sakai to charge $5,000 for a knife when equivalently functional knives are available for $100. We all understand what's happening when people buy them.

Same with typefaces.
I'm not in our target customer audience but here is my take:

1. You should probably work on the landing page and try to make it look like an enterprise product.

2. Your target audience is obviously enterprise companies so you should probably need outbound sales strategies unless you open-source the app and spend at least two years for visibility.

3. The main problem is that your target audience probably has enough resources to build their own solution and if the privacy is important for them, they probably won't be willing to try out your service. You need to do a market research and maybe build an on-prem version of the app.

4. You should probably spend some time to find the best value proposition for your product. Here are a few ideas that can help you to find it:

* Make it so simple for the companies can integrate it easily within hours. You should probably make the system pluggable so that they can integrate their internal services easily and switch to cloud if they want.

* Give away some free carrots to them in order to attract the potential customers. (Maybe open-source?)

* Do some paid POC and work as a consulting company. If you get closer to your customers, it can help you to find out the actual problem and turn your company into a product company. (i.e. Do Things that Don't Scale)
Yup, article says that too. But it wasn’t originally by design.
Huh? Plenty of media is created and sold as a commodity. Your average movie is not PR. Nor is your average news story from a reputable news source.
> Google’s decision to ban ads from bail bond providers is deeply disturbing and wrongheaded.

The case made for that is distinctly underwhelming.

> Bail bonds are a legal service.

That doesn't mean Google needs to carry ads for them.

> Indeed, they are a necessary service for the legal system to function.

No, they aren't. They are a necessary service for the abusive system of excessive cash bail to function, but the entire system of cash bail is facing widespread (and not along traditional party lines) criticism as being incompatible with the fundamental values of our legal system.

But even if this description was accurate, that doesn't mean Google carrying advertising for the industry is necessary.

> Whatever the cause, preventing advertising doesn’t reduce the need to pay bail it simply makes it harder to find a lender.

No, it doesn't, as doing a Google Search for “bail bonds <city>” and comparing the advertising results, map results, and organic web search results would show.

> Restrictions on advertising in the bail industry, as elsewhere, are also likely to reduce competition and raise prices.

The source cited for the argument for the general effect here studied effect of advertising taxes, which increase the price for equal visibility; whether the Google ban is in any way comparable really depends what the main mechanism is for people finding bail bonds through Google-placed ads. If it's mostly search advertisement on relevant terms, banning the ads gives organic results the same effect that paid ads use to have, and reduces the cost of visibility, which would have the exact opposite effect of an advertising tax. This would, therefore, be expected to increase competition and lower prices.
Payday lending goes beyond that. Its rent-seeking in the same way that reordering charges to repeatedly overdraft someone is rent-seeking. Sure "don't be poor" is one way to solve that issue, but even a poor and reasonably reliable person can be taken advantage of by payday loans (whose interest rates are always >100% APR, which is 10-20x more than anything else). There's a reason payday loans interest rates are capped [in many jurisdictions]: a 500% APR isn't something that arises normally.