skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they chose "post-process" based on the following feature:

Taking plain CSS as an input also means you can use Myth to post-process anyone else's CSS, adding the browser support you need, without having to re-write their code in a completely different syntax.

What distinguishes it from LESS or SASS or whatever is that the input has to be valid CSS, as well as the output. Their claim is that it makes your CSS act now like it will in the future once the version of the spec they're targeting has been fully adopted.
To be fair it would be nice for a black journalist do the same in a suit and tie.
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Arguments like these always ignore any motivation of the person providing the products and services.

If water is selling for $100/bottle you'll find a large number of people driving trucks full of water towards a disaster zone. If you regulate the price of water to 50 cents a bottle, those same people will stay home. You can call risk/reward decisions immoral all day, but it won't change reality. You think cab drivers will work for the same crap pay during a disaster?
In my experience, with rare exceptions, "toxic characters" is a kind of dogwhistle for "that guy is not in our clique." It's born of the kind of immaturity and never-left-high-school mentality I've come to associate with lingerers especially at large organizations.

"The Angry Guy" in these cases is often "angry" only by projection, or frankly with cause.
Wow what a great idea. Nicely executed, love the demo page.
Help me understand: are you under the impression that shared professional interests are what make a personal, intimate relationship work?

Really?
Micromanagement is not management. "Figure out your own tasks" is not management. Something "most people" do is not cultural. "Constant" off-sites? I don't even know where to put that one.

My point is that while these may be sold as process and management, these concepts are more values than states, and many of the examples you've used illustrate a lack (or low values) of presence.

one person's "we have no process" is another person's convoluted, opaque process.

And they'd both be right.
if I understand correctly, you/your wife would have to pay capital
gains on the stock when it is sold

That's exactly the problem, unrealized capital gains at death are treated with a 'stepped-up basis.' [1]

Because of this provision, any appreciation of the affected property
that occurred during the decedent's lifetime will never be taxed.
Thus, this provision provides an incentive for taxpayers to retain
appreciated property until death and sell depreciated property while
they are alive.

So you would bequeath your wife assets worth $250k, and she'd receive assets worth $35mm, with no tax due.

Hence why there's an estate tax.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped-up_basis

(Note: Wife may have been a bad example to start with due to legally shared property and all that, but this would be true if you left it to your children)
The author hypothesis is that criminal profiling is based on race. A simpler hypothesis is that such profiling is based on looks. Now, instead of wearing suits, if he wears baggy jeans that almost fall off his butt, puts on a few tatoos, nose rings to match, and starts doing seemingly illegal things. And if the cops still don't stop him, then maybe being white has something to do with it.
I wonder if the "inexplicable" part has to do with the desire not to be the officer who has to deal with the hassle (paperwork or whatnot). "Oh yeah, gee I dunno, we lost him."
I think the idea is that, instead of writing x other style language (SASS, LESS, etc.) that is turned into css, you write css that turns into different css. This means you can use other SASS/LESS/etc... and myth together.
Although we will never know for sure, I don't think he was necessarily punished extra-harshly in the second part. His point is that if you're poor, and black or hispanic, once you're in the system (which is easier to happen to you), these are the restrictions that get put on you and we wonder why opportunities for these groups are quashed.
The white man's burden truly is a difficult one to bear.

/sarcasm
Preprocessor: non css => css (e.g. less, sass)

Postprocessor: css => better css (e.g. myth, ?)
Or maybe they were thinking visual post-processing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_post-processing
One issue with that is that dicts can hold any hashable object, not just strings.

To get a comparable binary representation for arbitrary types, you need to use the hash method. So now you get the worst of both worlds - a hash call, and a tree lookup, and you need buckets for collisions.

You can't special case strings either - non-string objects can be equal to strings.
More than this, think about the businesses/industries in which you may have insider know-how and relevant skillsets. It is a lot easier to find a pain point to solve, and convey the value of your solution, when you:

- Know the current way things are done

- Have experienced the pain-points from those processes first-hand

- Have seen existing solutions and have ideas on how to improve/revolutionize them
Not even all the main lines in the UK are electrified, and there's still a large stock of 1970s diesel "High Speed Trains" (yes, that's the actual model name) in operation on main lines.

The main lines:

- Cross Country Route: partially electrified;
- East Coast Main Line: fully electrified (but a number of services continue north of it, which is not electrified);
- Great Eastern Main Line: fully electrified;
- Great Western Main Line: partially electrified (for the first 11 of 120 miles);
- High Speed 1: fully electrified;
- Midland Main Line: partially electrified (again, only for a relatively short distance near the London end);
- West Coast Main Line: fully electrified.

That's 3 out of 7 main lines that are only partially electrified. If we get off the main lines (and quite a number of smaller lines still have frequent services, all diesel!).
Perfect hash functions are ridiculously cheap. Completely different beasts to those designed to operate as good hashers for all inputs.
Or chimichamgas.
I HATE this.
nice. Black dead rectangle in the center of bluish background. No interaction anywhere. Firefox. If it doesn't work in FF, it doesn't work.
If you've seen any PHP4 codebases then you'd understand that the pain is necessary -- sweat now so you don't bleed later.

Universally, they were brittle and terribly insecure.
Why would someone use this over just paying with cash other than to make a social statement? I support bitcoin but this doesn't seem especially convenient.
Meditation is seemingly helpful wrt telomerase. http://www.academia.edu/4326346/The_link_between_mindfulness...
You're missing out on newsgroup and fxp speeds (in the gigabits-per-second range). And that applies to every download, not just the odd torrent with as many seeders as leechers.
Oops. Landing page font is almost unreadable in Chrome Version 30.0.1599.101 (Windows XP)
This interface has actually been in existence (in one form or another) since Latitude first launched.
How about those results under the plaintext benchmark run on windows with no db access to mysql or whatever? Still very slow. The low level libraries for http/disk/etc for C# on windows or linux are simply not set up for performance in general and that's what this benchmark is reflecting. You're dismissing these results a bit too quickly and defensively, I think.
Long-term I'm not sure how well this will work.

After all, SCSS was based on "CSS3" so we wouldn't have to rewrite our CSS. It's still around ... so we don't have to rewrite our SCSS.

I'm happy to see innovation here, but I also wish IE would just auto-update already. :D
Trading in USD is illegal/restricted in many places (China, Argentina, etc) but people always find a way around it.

There just needs to be a few killer apps on TOR (drugs, gambling, whatever) and bitcoin will always have some value.
Nice responsive site. The two biggest pain points for me without evening purchasing a drink; 1) finding a nearby bar is quite painful especially on a mobile device. Possibly integrate html5 geolocation to pinpoint and zoom in on your current location. 2) You have to click a map icon to determine the bar name, then intuitively I press ESC to exit, which doesn't work. Took me a few tries to realize you just click to get out. It was annoying figuring that out after a few page refreshes and the painful zooming in
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The conditional probability that someone will tag given that he is a gang member is high. Gangs mark their territory in this way. The legislators, probably not even knowing who Bayes is, feel free to reverse the conditional and say that the probability someone is a gang member given that he tags is also high.

At the least, they are not fully independent events, so it's not totally idiotic. If you combine that with broken window theory, it makes a lot of sense [to the cops] to rely on such statutes as a way to fight gangs at the same time as other petty crime.
Your argument is against the English language rather than HN. "War" has been used to describe things other than "mutual, systematic murder between enemies" as long as the word has existed.

Complaining about using the word "war" when not actually talking about murder is like complaining about using the phrase "I see" to say "I understand."
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The reading I think they are going for is that preprocessors generate CSS from something else, while this uses (the platonic ideal of "true") CSS and generates the shambled code that the browser needs. But I could be way off.
I think the issue is not that the exchanges charge too much, or that the prices aren't different between the exchanges (they are, sometimes vastly so from what I've seen). The problem as I would see it, is that you can't extract your funds in USD or another fiat currency quickly enough... so you might be waiting 48 hours and by that time the exchanges likely will have leveled off the difference.

Maybe someone else has some input as well.
I've avoided the CSS preprocessors for some reason, something about learning a CSS pseudo-language just didn't feel right. The idea behind this however is awesome. You're writing simple, true CSS and it does the annoying work of making it crappy CSS that browsers want. I might actually be able to get behind this.
sounds like you could skip a line at crowded bar. (i.e. sitting at your table pay and wait for your alias called) But i might be wrong.
Other research has already found an association between caffeine intake and lower incidence of cancer in humans. http://www.cancerletters.info/article/S0304-3835%2808%290066... So the research doesn't seem to transfer at all.
Man I really hate when the creator of the site expects me to scroll down. I have a 1080p monitor, if I can't see any content at that height I have to assume there isn't any.
Thinking about this more, I think I would say that TED actually is worse than the Jersey Shore, even ignoring the TEDx angle:

Blatantly mindless entertainment like the Jersey Shore does not sell itself as mentally nutritious, and as such, it does not satiate any sort of intellectual curiosity. Watching it only burns time, which is not intrinsically problematic.

TED on the other hand sells itself as educational, or at least edutainment. It satiates intellectual curiosity without providing any real mental nutrition. It leaves you feeling as though you have just learned something, as though you have just gained some sort of profound insight, but that sensation is empty.
> Myth lets you write pure CSS while still giving you the benefits of tools like LESS and Sass.

Having a "polyfill" is certainly a valid justification. But this doesn't come close to LESS/Sass -- I'd argue that the main feature of those is nested rules, and then mixins.

Variables and calculations are great, but most LESS code I've encountered uses nesting and mixins to a far greater extent. Advertising the project as "the benefits of tools like LESS and Sass" seems misleading, and seems to set up expectations that Myth doesn't fulfill.
This article by Jakob Nielsen goes into that a bit: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-l... (1993). He claims <100ms feels instantaneous.
I got what you're saying and I totally agree. I think the problems with liquidity contribute heavily to the volatility as well.
How are you dealing with the recent slowness of BTC transaction confirmations? Transactions can easily take over an hour now, especially if naive users don't understand how to set fees.
> However, I think he ignores a really salient distinction: a lot of these "crimes" like the laws against graffiti, exist not because the acts themselves are particularly heinous, but because they're proxies for things that are dangerous, namely gang activity.

Right -- and that's the problem. Because once you start down that road of criminalization of proxies for bad acts, you end up with proxies for proxies, like when the city I lived in criminalized -- no joke -- possession of spray paint, marker pens, and other things by teens on public right-of-ways. Because graffiti as a proxy for gang activity was still not easy enough of a prosecution lever, so they wanted to prosecute possession of items which could in theory be used for graffitti (which itself was a proxy for gang activitty).

And eventually you just criminalize everything as a proxy for being bad -- and then criminal justice is no longer really driven at all by law (since you've criminalized all kinds of things that you don't want, or expect, to enforced against everyone), its about arbitrary determinations by police and prosecutors -- guided by personal biases -- about who really "needs" to be punished, and you always know you'll have a convenient lever to prosecute once that determination is made.

And the whole concept of rule of law and proof beyond a reasonable doubt becomes meaningless, because you no longer are prosecuting for the real offense, but for distant meaningless proxies for harmful activities chosen specifically because people are certain to violate many of them in ways that are easy to prove whether or not they are doing any of the acts for which they are notionally proxies.
It's hard to get USD and such in and out of certain exchanges. Exchanges with easy deposits and difficult withdrawals will have higher prices usually. Moving the bitcoins isn't ever a big deal.
We avoided inner city streets because they were dangerous, and we relied on the police to keep people from those places out of our neighborhoods. Whatever they got, we figured they deserved.

i find the last statement just as disturbing as the rest of the article. carrying this sentiment around plays a big part in the apathy we see all around us, towards most of the atrocities being committed these days.
Well written and informative. Starting the read, I was somewhat skeptical of the pairing approach but now I see how it can work and work well.
It's not supposed to replace LESS/SASS, it's a supplement. That's why it's a postprocessor, not a preprocessor.
At least the hat is gone.
Isn't the lack of money a major part of these problems in the first place? Imposing monetary fines on people who are riding the poverty line doesn't seem like a good solution.
It's basically a rework (https://github.com/visionmedia/rework) distribution with a couple of plugins bult in.

I you need finer grained control, take a look at rework itself. We have been using it for a while and it's just great.
>...so offshore and tax free....

Please find something more socially responsible to do with your time.
I just started at Maxwell about 2 weeks ago and I'm really excited about the things we're doing!
Always love stories like this. I never realized the truth of the expression "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" until I started writing shell scripts!

Stories like this can be inspirational, and they reinforce one of my favorite mottoes about computing: "Computers should work; people should think." Have the machines do the rote calculations, and free people to work on challenging creative tasks.
Agreed. It seems to be a design trend that's on the upswing lately, and it's frustrating. I encountered a mobile site yesterday that did that... to me it's the equivalent of the "click to enter" home page of bygone days. Uh, no thanks.
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That's exactly it. The guy was about to get on the subway and go who knows where. The cop probably wanted to make sure he got home for dinner.
A simpler hypothesis is that such profiling is based on looks.

Are you trying to argue that the colour of your skin is not a factor in the perception of your appearance?
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Being able to write more than a couple of lines of code a day
Another: it's really-really easy. I've built frameworks, done ruby, django, prior to my Java days. And, wow, php is just sooo easy to iterate and play with.
What changed exactly? I've been couchsurfing since 2008, and hosting since 2012.

I've been hearing a lot about the changes that came with for profit management. But I haven't noticed any difference. Granted I never went to many local meetups.

I'm genuinely curious: could you be more specific about what negatives you've noticed?
I currently use Parse but I could definitely benefit from not having to switch between Obj-C/Javascript(Parse Cloud Code) when writing my backend. As well it would be nice to copy/paste logic between client/server. However, I think I'd have to see Push notifications and another layer of abstraction added to the database layer before I considered switching to Objective-Cloud.

If Apportable delivers on its promises you could theoretically never leave Objective-C land.
What were they finally able to pin on Al Capone? Tax evasion.

The reasoning is that if you can't nail them for the thing you can't prove, you wing them with the thing you can.
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Please add 2011 to title. Folks are thinking this is new.
After watching 2001 I believe Stanley Kubrick is a filmmakers filmmaker. I think he is to Spielberg as Spielberg is to Abrams (or any other modern promising director)
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Well, ECMAScript isn't called JavaScript, it's called ECMAScript. So there you go!
The map at the bottom probably shouldn't span the entire page; it tracks mouse / trackpad movement once it's scrolled over - makes it difficult to scroll to the bottom of the page.
A big difference with this over Google (or NSA for that matter) is the location history stays on your phone and isn't logged on a server.
> On the other hand, surely everyone working in any kind of sysadmin role has a story of things going sideways.

I want to agree with this but there are some big caveats.

1. What if you don't expect this question and thus don't trawl through memories ahead of time? It's easy to feel put-on-the-spot and have your mind go blank.

2. What if you're really talented and worked at a place with rigorous process and thus all the stuff going bad gets caught in test or QA or whatever? Nothing really goes sideways in that situation.

3. There are a lot of situations where things go bad not because you've made a mistake but because management's made a mistake. Not wanting to talk about those situations is understandable for a couple of reasons. Not talking bad about the former employer is one, so is not wanting to get all worked up about former management screwing you in a job interview.

4. You could have been on either end of the situation described by a previous HN story: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/are-your-programmer... If you're on the "lazy" team you might have been a damn-fine sysadmin with no horror stories. Or on the "hard working" team with plenty of disaster stories and a questionable level of talent.

I'm not saying that having disaster stories makes you a bad sysadmin, nor am I saying that not having disaster stories makes you a good one. But I am suggesting that the correlation between disaster stories and skill level probably isn't p = 0.99 and might be more like p = 0.5 or 0.2 or maybe 0.07.

Even if you find that the correlation is 0.7 (pretty decent) are you going to be interviewing enough people such that you can be sure that you don't end up with sampling error?

If you need to hire 10 sysadmins and you interview 200 then perhaps you'll do a decent job of identifying the good candidates. But if you only need to hire one and you only interview 10 you don't have the law of large numbers on your side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
When it says "giving you the benefits of tools like LESS and Sass" I think they are referring to how you can postprocess the CSS generate by LESS and Sass
Millions of people do graffiti -- and very few of them have anything to do with "gang activity".

I imagine that depends on where the crime takes place. If you're in the ghetto tagging a wall it's far more likely to be gang related than it would be if it were some kid in the suburbs.
lots of readability issues on this page. Purple tiny text on black background != easy to read.
I believe the correct way to refer to them is not "official", but "reference". The reasoning for this being that most languages encourage others to implement a compiler/interpreter.
> Although we will never know for sure, I don't think he was necessarily punished extra-harshly in the second part.

He doesn't come out and say it, probably to avoid the perception that he's complaining about something he did voluntarily, but reading between the lines that's exactly what's going on.

He points out that standard practice for a simple non-violent misdemeanour would have been dismissal with a slap on the wrist and a tiny bit of public service. The justice system couldn't handle the volume of cases it does if every misdemeanour graffiti case got probation.

Having his file flagged 'do not dismiss' by higher ups at the DA's office and the judge come down abnormally hard on him (more than what the DA was asking for) is almost certainly retaliation for them being aware he was doing it for a story.
I think you mostly hit the mark, although wouldn't it be:

future css => compatible css ?
I hope that was a joke because I don't see how that would be a smart thing to do even for the purpose of investigative journalism. Unless he or she has a way to quickly call mayday if things start to go wrong which they most likely will. The criminal justice system is fairly dangerous for blacks, especially men.
I agree that was the main point, but the description of his court hearings strongly suggests that both the prosecutor and the judge were retaliating.
>there's a continuous gradient

Out of interest, how would you label the axis?
All I'm seeing is a blue screen. Macbook, using Chrome.
I just gathered that he's a PL design and theory zealot.
The judge [...] ordered three years of probation, a $1000 fine, a $250 surcharge,
a $50 surcharge, 30 days of community service, and a special condition allowing police
and probation officers to enter and search my residence anytime without a warrant.

Wow. Perhaps I'm naive, but I was unware that a first-time, nonviolent misdemeanor could be grounds for removing your 4th amendment rights.
> we cant catch async errors outside the async callback , will generators fix this ?

You can inject an exception into a generator via the throw method[0], and it'll be raised at the yield, as if `yield` had thrown[1].

JS exception handling facilities are still crap, though.

[0] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators#me...

[1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators#in...