skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us like that you get cross-browser and device tested code that is super easy to use. You can choose what parts of Bootstrap to include in your app, so you don't bloat it.

Would you elaborate what you mean by fighting? Bootstrap is extremely simple to customize and I am no front-end guru.
A framework is not only a good way to start. It's also a good way to uniform code, make things easier for new comers (larger projects usually have lots of new people that eventually write code), solve multiple common issues you'd fight by your own (e.g. browsers compatibility), community support and documentation. If you write your own you need to document well all things and things very careful how to arrange css classes to make code reusable and flexible.
I had the misfortune of using Visual FoxPro once upon a time. It was horrifyingly bad, but perhaps by that time (2002-2004) it was suffering serious impedance mismatch with the rest of technology which had moved on. Anyway, I wouldn't call it a good example :)

Regardless, that was kind of my point - all these systems are only good as long as you stay within their constraints. The unfortunate thing is that the constraints always end up being way too tight in practice.
I immeditely giving this a fail for not namespacing|prefixing css classes.
I mean "error" class, "warning" class - FTFY seriously guys?
Yeah - noone else gonna have a splendid idea for using those exact names anywhere ever.
There is a documentary about his life as well:

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iflQseSSfA
It all depends on the time period you measure across.

1985 was near the peak of the Reagan cold war build up. No surprise the budget didn't grow between then and 1999.
True & Co.'s model is so vastly superior to other intimates companies, in terms of actually working to make sure garments FIT customers. The way they're using data to inform the products they create and offer is really interesting, especially because bra fit is such an individual and impactful thing.
> Medicinally Li is provided as the carbonate salt. A minimal dose is 300 mg/day, which contains ~ 30 mg elemental Li.

Lithium carbonate is about 19 % elemental lithium by mass (lithium carbonate contains two lithium atoms per molecule), so 300 mg would be ~ 57 mg lithium.
Also, to my knowledge, the typical therapeutic doses are at least 900 mg/d in adults.
The problem for hobbyists is that they usually want to buy more like 8 ports, not 64.
Porn Star Tells Students They’re Being Screwed – By Higher Ed Costs
How to create a Twitter clone in 300 lines of AngularJS « Appbase blog
Is there any way to use pseudo-selectors, like :last-child?
> iniquity,

accidentally relevant typo

> but it is also a very special hell created by the powers that were

not very special, though.. so many improverished/war-torn nations have a similar story with different character names.
Loop Invariants Abbreviate Induction Proofs
Not to mention the combination rifle/machete that Soyuz cosmonauts carried in their survival kit!

http://suzymchale.com/ruspace/soysurvive.html
Code normalization: that's the key. Once you've got everything working everywhere via a base scaffold -- the hard part -- then you can very quickly iterate on design changes, or design in general. Bootstrap et al are generally quite easy to tweak once you understand how all of the components fit, and i'm sorry but CSS just isn't fun to have to write from scratch, especially on bigger projects.

IMO, if I were to arrive on a new project and saw the front-end devs reinventing the wheel, it would immediately set off a red flag.
sell it. i doubt some department in alaska is probably quoting a new one from the manufacturer right now. accept it in SD, send it to whoever was going to buy anyway, pay 80% to SD school district to use on something it actually need.

you don't even have to be too smart to see how this is better than maintaining a beast like that just because 'it was free'.
Oh man, I really loved this biography in the 9th grade. It was the first time I was exposed to the concept of mathematics being beautiful. I can't recommend this book enough. Also, I loved Paul Hoffman's biography of the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont as well.
502 error, looks like the old HN overload.
"though the foundational period of the US had a surprisingly level of wealth equality compared to some other periods"

You must be excluding both the African slaves and indigenous American population from your analysis.
There's a plan to get from ITER to a commercial version. Next in line after ITER is "DEMO", which will have higher output and actually produce power (ITER will just vent off the heat). PROTO would then build further on the first two, further refining all the improvements made along the way, to provide a template for building commercially viable fusion power stations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO
Stellar Engineer learns about GCHQ surveillance [video]
Yes, and it is the rational and only possible interpretation.
OK, and where do I start? How do I make a pretty blue border around a text input to subtly indicate focus? What's the best gradient / padding to use in such circumstances? What fade in time will looks good? There are so many questions I could ask just about the text input highlighting.

As a back end developer who needs to do bits and pieces of front end stuff, I can see this taking me months (at least) to learn JavaScript CSS, and design to make something as anywhere close to bootstrap. Or I could just use what they have done (and thousands have tested) and save myself a whole lot of effort. And if you have other developers joining the team, at least they will be familiar with whatever framework you are using, rather than some in house crap that someone wrote ages ago, and has now left the company.

I have not looked at the source code for Bootstrap, but if it was crap I assume there would be a ton of articles ranting about like there are for PHP.

So (with Bootstrap at least) I am getting pre-written, tested, understood code, documented code, probably of at least "reasonable" quality, with a community online to help with problems. Does you own code have that? I certainly don't have time to write that stuff myself .

The more experienced I get as a developer, the less code I try to write. People with the "code everything yourself" attitude remind me of when I was fresh out of university, and didn't realise how incompetent I was at the time.
Yeah, the mainstream will probably never get the distinction between mathematics and arithmetics straight.
The checkbox bugs me, it's not in line with the radio buttons and it's very slightly smaller. I'd make it square, but that's a personal preference.
One thing I noticed missing (or that you should consider) is keyboard accessibility. If I tab through the page, I quickly get lost where I'm at (until I focus on an text input element).
I'm familiar with python bridges at all - how would someone transition something with pyobjc as a dependency to the native alternative you mention?
Li has those studies (US, JP, UK) going for it, with only 1/6 going against in the UK but having the lowest doses in the study. fluoride in drinking water have zero reputable academic sources confirming any efficacy.

So, just because some people are conspiracy theory nuts/paranoids/etc does not make them instantly wrong.
Somewhat tangentially, I've started using $1.35 Moleskine-style notebooks to take notes in classes I care about. I've discovered that as bad as my handwriting is, my attention, focus, and net-gain from classes is significantly higher when all I have is ~8x5 blank paper to distract me.
its not -- its called "ramp up" time. its usually about a day or up to 2 weeks depending on the size of the project before you feel comfortable making changes. the longest one i ever had was about a year, where after i worked on a project for a year i was still finding sections of code and saying "oh... i had no idea our app did this or these files were there!"

usually the dev will just poke around for that time and make small changes and debug it a few times to see how it works. 4-5k lines i would say 2-3 days tops before they are comfortable with it.
even if you believed the entire narrative it still doesn't work. The efficacy of a criminal is due to the response time of the enforcement.

It doesn't matter if 30 police show up in tanks if it takes them 45 minutes to do so, except for instance of you know, mass protest and civil unrest.

It's like we're moving towards a day where the photograph of the tank man is no longer shocking
"Aitken could recite Pi to 707 decimal places", and how about 22.514? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z22H89rIMHk @ 8:00 (although the entire documentary is great)
I will vouch for Jekyll as well. It works fine not as part of Github pages, just sync your local jekyll output with your FTP even on something as plain as Dreamhost.

I personally use github pages for now, to archive my writing:

http://keerthik.github.com
In my experience, the fighting comes in when the designer (who generally has less understanding of the Bootstrap modules' intended roles) extends an existing UI concept that came out of the box. This is a perfectly reasonable ask on their part- it's a component on our site, why shouldn't we be able to customize it?

A specific example: Bootstrap expects dropdowns to be unordered lists with anchors as the top-level element, so having a fixed-position header as the first item while its children scroll is difficult. If this has been our CSS based on our markup, it would've taken fifteen minutes, because we could have gone in and done a bit of basic surgery on our module, making it more flexible. (This may not be the best example, but that's the general idea.)
The Water Bureau website has all the Bull Run water analysis online. The latest is from April 2014: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/water/article/494758

I used to check this more often, even before there was a WWW, when I was home-brewing beer. Then, as now, the water was so low in dissolved minerals, it was necessary to add Ca++, Mg++, etc. as yeast nutrients. All of Portland's big microbreweries probably still have do the same thing.
My impression was Obama had issued the executive order to make public "controlled unclassified information" so the guys used a euphemism so if taken to court they could they had no undeclared controlled unclassified information. Sensitive information maybe but not controlled.
"i'm sorry but CSS just isn't fun to have to write from scratch"

That may be your problem. Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I especially enjoy this type of work.
Simplex method was a game changer.

Its a funny algorithm: worst-case time complexity is exponential in the input size, and is pretty easy to demonstrate (see "Klee-Minty cube" on Wikipedia). It has a couple of "rules" you can change out that will fix the exponential problem for some cases, only to introduce new problematic cases elsewhere. However the reality is that it demonstrates polynomial-like performance on almost all problems of interest, and that is why it is so widely used.

Later, interior point methods arose that can be faster sometimes (and are polynomial time complexity), but they didn't kill the simplex method. This is partly due to one key property of the simplex method: at optimality, you can change the linear program in many different small ways and start the algorithm again from where you left off (sometimes you need the dual simplex method, a sibling method). You'll return to feasible optimality in usually only a few iterations. This is what powers the branch-and-bound approach to integer programming, which is the really useful application of LP these days. Interior point methods don't really have good warm starts to this day, certainly not good enough for branch-and-bound.

I've met several professors who kinda don't like the simplex method because (they say) it is not a beautiful algorithm from a theory perspective, but I think its wonderful.

Oh, and PSA: very difficult to implement correctly! The textbook algorithm will fail terribly on real problems due to floating point issues - please use an existing implementation if you need to solve LPs!
If you're designing sites yourself, I completely agree with you. I haven't much of an eye for design myself and always rely on foundational CSS to take care of these kinds of decisions when I build pet projects; however, I've always worked on teams that have designers who hand me high-fidelity mocks (or at least high-level style guides) that answer these questions. The implementation itself is simple enough once you've worked with CSS long enough.
That's not a strategic plan
To give you an embarrassing personal anecdote: In my first startup I wanted to do customer development. The lean startup was a fresh and growingly popular idea, and we devoted more time and energy talking to potential customers than turning our proof-of-concept prototype into an MVP. It looked smart on paper. Unfortunately that didn't go so well and my conclusion was that we were doing customer development wrong. So we tried to do customer development "better" instead of pivot.

I was so mentally set in my idea that I consistently gravitated to the next-simplest explanation when I encountered sad evidence. And even though I believed I was being smart and understood customer development, I was following a checklist of things I thought I was supposed to do and was confused when we stagnated. I pretty much was asking to learn my lesson the hard way. :)

It seems very plausible that new products and services can be built to help founders be more effective at customer development. However one major obstacle if you outsource customer development too much will be dodging bullets as the messenger.

If I had used a CD service I'd probably assume the person was doing it wrong. They don't get my product, they are bad at sales, they aren't finding the right customers, etc. And then I'd wonder why I was throwing away my money (out of my personal pocket) for a service that wasn't "working". Unless you're a customer development superhero there might even be a little truth in all those things – it's going to take you a while to orient to the company's vision and market.

Another issue is that you'll probably see adverse selection from your clients. Folks who are good at customer development or stumble into promising early traction probably aren't going to hire a consultant for that stuff. So you're going to get people who either have an aversion to talking to customers and/or have hit a wall finding customers. And it's quite possible that the stuff you'll try is very similar to the stuff they tried and failed. So most of your clients might be biased towards failed startups, which may create a lot of churn and make it harder to gain inbound leads.
The Dark Place – A story on startups, depression and coming back
I can only agree. Especially real-time data. There are only a few cases where real-time might be usefull
Unfortunatly the US budget is intentionally misleading in a wide number of ways.

For example there is a lot of DoD spending that's not included in those numbers. Such as veterains affairs. Also, those numbers don't take into account inflation or the current GDP.
Most articles are shitty, this is an example of one.

Most technical articles are written by someone blinkered by their specific experience which they feel is so wonderful that they should share with the world.

Save the internet from such dross and write it on a piece of paper, roll it up and shove it up the ares your talking out of.
I was hoping for an article that would explain how to design a good dashboard. This isn't it.
An important note from the article:

"The procedure Kurimoto performed is unlikely to restore his patient's vision. However, researchers around the world will be watching closely to see whether the cells are able to check the further destruction of the retina while avoiding potential side-effects, such as bringing about an immune reaction or inducing cancerous growth."

Seems that at this point they're still evaluating safety rather than actual therapeutic benefits. Still exciting progress :)
If you have a site delivering real time content, such as news, its pretty important.
Thinking that agreements mean anything to services whose sole purpose consists of breaking foreign countries' laws in order to gain strategic, tactical and economic advantage over these countries is wishful thinking. Especially if the aforementioned Germans have the wrong ethnicity or the wrong religion.
> He may be a traitor to that vile and heinous entity known as the United States, but he's a godamned hero to the rest of the world for exposing the crimes against humanity that the American people are allowing to occur in their name.

This is preposterous. It would make sense to blame the American people for the actions of the American government if there was a strong correlation between public opinion and government policy. I would argue that there is no such strong correlation, and even if there were, the blame would only apply to the specific individuals who approve of the government policies.

You can't just assume the middle school civics class description of government as reflecting the will of the people, then conclude therefore that the people are to blame for the actions of the government.

To be explicit: I am an American citizen (an accident of birth), I approve of and consent to very little of what the US government does, and I accept no responsibility for what the US government does.
Can I add a custom dialog, on the image link popup, to show the images already in my website.
Perhaps nowadays it is the iphone or android we use to self administer, no expensive drugs required.
The "feedback and support" widget you are using destroys the usability of your site on mobile. For some problems with short descriptions, the widget obscures the last couple letters on each line of text, making it unreadable. And, since it is floating, it follows the user down the page, obscuring the text everywhere.
It's buried in a tiny link, but they actually published the deck with the article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/02/us/hemisphere-...
To illustrate how bad a job Intel has done on the marketing of this technology, I for a long time thought that display port was a closed mac-only thing, and until today I thought the same of thunder port.

If they want to increase adaptation, maybe they should consider marketing it more, and outside of sanfran's macbook-based hipster blogger circles.
Oh come on. An armored vehicle loned to the local police in a case of a school shooting is going to undermine the goverment?
Good job, great visuals make it easy to understand the numbers.
"The Lady Tasting Tea"[1] is a fantastic book about statisticians. Someone recommended that book to me as an intro to stats, which it most certainly is not. However, if you have had even a single course in statistics, you will recognize many of the names and learn how they influenced the modern era.

Frankly, I wish the author had devoted a couple of pages at the end of each chapter to delve deeper into the technical concepts. Nonetheless, the book makes an interesting read, even for non-statisticians.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/The-Lady-Tasting-Tea-Revolutionized/dp...
I think you've hit on something very fundamental here. When the government has well targeted interventions that achieve specific goals, this can be a good thing.

But the cumulative effect of many social interventions can give the government excessive power. Even beside purely political concerns, I think we have to ask whether we prefer the random hand dealt by nature, to a hand carefully chosen by the government.

Nate Silver gives a talk [1] describing how we could design cities to make people less "racist". If this was possible, it would represent an overtly political manipulation of the populace. Chemicals probably can't have such target effects, but they still raise the question of what rights the government has to manipulate people's behavior.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/nate_silver_on_race_and_politics
> "Its the help a startup needs between "office hours" and execution. I do think that there is a piece missing here, that can be developed."

Pretty much agree with everything you said, this is a good unpacking of what I was trying to briefly convey in the OP.

For example, if one of the founders is strong in Biz Dev, then they probably don't need this (though some level of assistance would still be helpful), but if this is not the case, then getting guidance and potentially full-service assistance with an all-in effort in gaining customer feedback in a valid way that could be just the frequency shift that determined success or failure in an otherwise solid product/idea.

Basically you would be taking the product from something potential customers respond with "maybe" into something they say "Heck yes, take my money!"
> Even if he reivewd each document, it's crazy to believe Snowden, someone with zero intelligence, military, or diplomatic experience could accurate determine what was illegal, "need to know," or "safe."

Why is that crazy to believe? I think it's crazier to believe that the only people who should be given the official authority to decide which secrets to keep are those who are directly and strongly incentivized to keep secrets about atrocious programs like those which Snowden has leaked.
Delta Flight 15, a true story about 9-11
>"Corollary: No one needs real-time"

If you've ever run service where you're anticipating a large traffic spike and you need to monitor server stats, real-time statistics are invaluable.
I think you have answered your own question there then:

simple enough once you've worked with CSS long enough
Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers (2003)
Well, take a look around you if you're in Europe, Australia or New Zealand and notice that while they're mouthing embarrassed platitudes, the heads of most, if not all, EU countries are busy cooperating with the NSA. If you're not, I'd be curious to know in which wonderful country you live, where something like "the rule of law" applies to intelligence services.

That said, wrt to Snowden being a traitor... if that is your reaction to "the previous and current administrations have created a completely out-of-control behemoth which invades both our and our allies' privacy without any oversight, and therefore threatens the notion of free and fair election anywhere in the western world", maybe you should rethink your priorities.
Is it on purpose that the radio button "dot" that shows when selected is not in the center?
An Example of Poor Security Communication in the Google Auth Flow
>NYT[ journal -> write -> edit -> publish -> distribute]

That's not how print works. Many papers own their printing presses, but the output is all sold to one distribution company.

That company handles subscriptions, billing, customer service, and delivery for the newspaper as well as a bunch of local publications unaffiliated with the newspaper's parent company (for example, suburban papers and trade press), in exchange for a cut of revenue. It uses the same branding as the newspaper when interfacing with customers, so the interface is (sort of) seamless, but it is a separate company with separate shareholders.

That's how it's always worked in my hometown, since at least the 80s. So this adjustment might not be that innovative or disruptive.
Technology? You do know what the 'T' in 'IT' stands for don't you?
Why is just as important as how
That's possible. On the other hand, who would trust Stalin as far as he could throw him? Ironically enough, the same strategic mistake did in another megalomaniac dictator more than a century before. Don't start a land war in Russia, unless you're Mongols.
Brainstorm – Open source general purpose note-taking
The Acabion is pretty cool along those lines for a contemporary aerodynamic somewhat mad (300mph, Swiss) vehicle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGNaEDAooBI&feature=youtu.be...