skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generating a stylesheet would be a solution to the "media queries + server-side pre-render" issue as they can't be inlined in "style" attributes, given otherwise it would have to wait for React to load.
This is virtually the same as what is more often called "bikeshedding", though with a different (just as famous) story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
Be careful, this is how the Archbishop of Canterbury got picked in 1990. http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-george-care...

On that occasion the Appointments Committee put forward the names of the
Archbishop of York, the favorite of the church leaders but one who had
ruffled Mrs. Thatcher's feathers on other issues.

To try to encourage his selection, the second candidate was generally
regarded as unqualified. An old line evangelical, who thought the
Bible contained the answer to every question and who was known to speak
in tongues.

The Church leaders thought this candidate, George Carey, was too
bizarre a choice even for Margaret Thatcher. However, the Prime Minister's
anger was such that she decided to teach the Church of England a lesson.
George Carey became the designated Archbishop of Canterbury.
I've heard this is common outside of the US. I have never seen one in real life and it's probably illegal to require it -- even having them is a problem I wouldn't want to deal with.
For some reason, it does have the very annoying behavior of resetting element height when altering align-items.
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Nice story. I'm disappointed that it didn't end with some helpful tactics for ducks you could put in your own projects, though. I also would be interested to hear the real story of what happened to the author to inspire this writeup.
There are several organizations with minimal funding (like OSGeo) that will benefit from this. There are several infrastructure libraries under that umbrella... A geospatial data abstraction library is not as sexy as an end-user app with a GUI, but pretty much most of the reason of why you can open a satellite image in your favorite desktop app (open source and proprietary) is because of libraries like GDAL. A single student, for a summer, for a project like that makes a difference. Thank you to the GSoC organizers for this!
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Mirasol doesn't seem to have been adopted very much, outside of the Qualcomm Toq watch. I wonder if it's not very impressive in person, or pricey.
Excellent. I like the numbers - it took a long time to hunt down numbers, the GigaOM article would have helped - but it is the underlying costs beyond the hardware that make it so.
Similar thing was often done by writers in the Eastern bloc to fool the censors. They left some obviously bad things in the material to be censored, so the censor could complain about something, and they would leave more subtle references intact.
No, I do realize that PHP in functional. I suppose I misstated my history a bit - I went from procedural to scripting languages, to functional to mostly OOP in languages that support both functional and OOP.

I would say that Python isn't closer to a pure OO language than PHP, rather it allows for more pure OO than PHP. I only say this because you can go pure functional in Python as well.
Physics’s pangolin
If you make cleaning it up profitable, then it will attract more waste. What you want is to stop sending e-waste to Ghana in the first place.
There where some truly terrible cars in the 70's and 80's. The Chevy Vega and Ford Pinto are just two classic American examples. Britain had a bunch of disastrous Morris and Austins. Alfa Romeo and Lancia also had some legendarily unreliable cars in that time period. And let's not even begin to talk about the brands from east of the Iron Curtain. At the end of the day I'll happily take the worst cars of today over the worst cars of the 70's and 80's.
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Notable that in one night during midterms over 10% of the undergraduate body signed.
Not just Mozilla, Melange isn't there this time too.

btw, http://planet.mozilla.org give a read
Commonly known as a 'red herring'.
This was a great idea until I scrolled down and its a yearly membership and its absurdly expensive for what amounts to be a $10 widget that both Square and Paypal use for remote card capture, and for a card that doesn't seem to be all that special at all.

How about selling the whole thing for either $49.99 one time fee for $9.99/yr, or just don't bother being in business at all because you obviously didn't understand anything about your target market.

/rant
It's worth reading indie.vc's response to this article: http://bryce.vc/post/111385165695/the-biggest-misunderstandi...
This is awesome, but the chosen title is misleading. This requires at least 20 minutes.
Weird, since it worked pretty well on the original Pebble Time launch.
Rumors of G+'s death are vastly exaggerated
Before I compose this reply I want to mention that I'm a woman of color in case anybody needs to do a privilege check to see if it's okay for me to speak on this issue or whether it's acceptable to silence me because I'm "obviously" a white cis het male.

>The gender inequality is already staggering in favour of boys.

Serious question: Do you think this is a conscious choice made by those in the tech field?

I ask because my lived experience is different than that, and yes, it's a serious question even though my response may have been flippant above.

>Having a tiny programme with 40 students allowed instead of the hundreds (thousands?) of GSoC does not mean that the horrible women are out to destroy all manhood.

That's not what I said at all. I'm asking why champions of gender equality seem to favor the tactic of exclusion.
I would argue it is broken.
>It can handle a limited amount of traffic, and controllers can't see anything outside of their own airspace—when they hand off a plane to a contiguous airspace, it vanishes from their radar.

To me there's no way to tell if the plane flies out of their space or drops out of the sky at that moment. If that's the case the search and rescue won't be better had MH370 happened in the US.
Well there is always the Gnome way, where the menu entry has one name (Archive Manager) but the command has a very different one (file-roller).
If you're trying to get a job as a graphic designer -- then sure, make a fancy resume. Otherwise, it looks like a total waste of time -- I presume they just paid someone to do it.

To me it signals that you don't know what matters -- like using a plastic-binder on a school report.

If you could somehow use the design to communicate the content better -- then I'd be impressed.

EDIT: I just realized that this site builds the resumes. Again, they look nice, but other than that, I think they don't work any better as a resume than a plain one. In general I like well-designed marketing collateral, but resumes are things to skim and understand quickly -- I'd like to see good designs that accomplish that.
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> This looks quite nice, but the cost seems to be prohibitive for all but the highest end customers.

As with all new technology, the price will eventually come down.
> The agency is primarily a regulatory body, responsible for keeping the national airspace safe, and yet it is also in charge of operating air traffic control, an inherent conflict that causes big issues when it comes to upgrades.

There's no conflict there.

Now NSA meant to keep US infrastructure safe, and attack US companies/people is a conflict. But the FAA being responsible for both safety and ATC is far from a conflict.

I'd prefer the FAA moved slowly and got it right. This isn't an area where young-hip 20 somethings re-invented the tech' in the latest web-2.0 fad. This is an area where you want mathematically provable correctness and unit testing up the ying-yang.

Get it right slow, don't get it wrong fast.
First of all, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone on HN. Your support since the announcement has been instrumental in keeping me motivated.

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Don't ask direction to the blind either.
>That's a nice post hoc rationalization

Come on, you did sort of ask for clarification didn't you?
Or how Hitchcock had the ratings board watch his famous Psycho shower death scene a second time unchanged and get the thumbs-up when it didn't pass the first viewing.

I'm sure history is sprinkled with many such interesting stories.
Are you referring to the microcode updates that operating systems apply on startup? Those are binary blobs, but they're only to correct CPU errata.
Sounds like the duck is a fingerprinting honeypot.
or maybe they don't want to appear rude or finnicky by pointing out that it looks the same?
> let's not take their sponsorship to the open source community as granted.

Let's also not take for granted the massive benefits Google gets from open source. Free platforms on which customers use Google's services, including a free, massive software infrastructure (the Internet and all its protocols, the Web, email, etc.), and free technology for use by Google, such as Linux in their data centers and at the core of Android.

Arguably, without FOSS there would be no Internet, no Web, and no Google.

This is not a criticism of Google, who seem to appreciate these things and pay it back in many ways. My point is, it's not charity.
Hi Stumpyfr,

Thanks for the reply. Just trying to get an idea of how many startups are using Office 365.
Thanks for your comment!

I've checked and console.log is not there in the code I ran in my benchmark. I re-ran the tests right now to make sure I didn't screw up this.

Best regards,
-sorenso-
In the case of managers I think it reassures them. If the product was good enough before they got involved, that means they weren't actually needed and that's not a cool feeling.
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Another version I've heard of this is with film censorship - apparently when Hitchcock made Psycho, the film censor (I think in the UK - the BBFC) wouldn't give the film a certificate because it was too extreme for the era - too much nudity, too much violence - and suggested a few cuts to just trim back some of the offending shots.

Hitchock said of course he would, took the film back, and sat on it for a couple of weeks. He later sent back the 'fixed' version, and the censor was much happier with the 'changes' and certified it for release.
I think a lot of projects use sqlite for client side persistence. I know mega (https://mega.co.nz/) did.
The "helicopter" may also be related to the "anchoring effect" [1], where adding such an expensive item with inflate the final cost of the project. That final cost will be the starting point, or "anchor", for clients to evaluate the true value and appropriate price of the project.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Yeah, and at least China is honest about their snooping. It's tiring hearing the company line here in the US about how we are so great with personal liberties.
IBM Design is hiring like crazy. We are looking for the top front-end developers who know their medium inside and out, wielding code as their design tool. If you love building on top of live data through real APIs, you believe content precedes device, performance is a UX concern, and code is a design tool, then we. want. you. Let's talk!

https://www.ibm.com/design/careers.shtml#join
I guess this is the document you mean: https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa...
New compounds protect from structural damage of multiple sclerosis
Docker and the Container War
And now you have me pondering this...
Two for ground, one for (bidirectional) power and a one-wire serial bus.
Maybe not stable, but perhaps predictable (at least outside of the MS sphere) because there was not as many interconnected processes bouncing around in the background.
Out of curiosity, were those free with or without taxes/fees?

One of my friends about 12 years ago found round trip tickets from NYC to Egypt for $0 + taxes and fees. Fees came to about $100-$200 or so. He immediately bought 10 tickets for himself and friends. So an amazing deal, but still not free when considering taxes and fees.
Roundtown (http://roundtown.com) - Cambridge, MA, Engineering, Full Time

At Roundtown we're building the best site on the planet for finding out what you can go out and do.

We're building a database of every event we can find that's happening anywhere: festivals, art shows, concerts, meetups, sports games, tech events, everything else. We're doing this algorithmically, unlike some competing sites that use human curators (a fundamentally unscalable approach). We already have what we believe is the largest database of events happening in the U.S. and 6 other countries.

With that data in hand, we want to make it fun and effortlessly easy to find the events that you're interested in near you. Our beta site launched last May and is a good start. But there's plenty more to do: we want to add personalized event recommendations, apps for iOS and Android, email alerts when your favorite band/comedian/author is coming to town, and much more. This is a big and broad idea and will keep us busy for quite some time to come. :)

We're a 6-person startup with 2 technical cofounders, 3 engineers (2 are also data scientists) and a graphic designer. We have team members who worked at Google and MIT Lincoln Labs and who went to MIT, Princeton and BU. All of us work on site in Cambridge, MA. We're using cool technologies such as Scala, Angular and scikit-learn.

We'd like to add a couple more engineers to our team. Check out our job description at https://roundtown.com/jobs and let us know at jobs@roundtown.com if interested. Thanks!
This is an entirely new API, so it would only help games that are written to use it.
As ever, the UK is different. I've never seen a CV with a photo attached. I'd imagine it would fall foul of a lot of anti discrimination laws (age, race, gender, disability, etc).
Because it's the foundation of all modules and if you start of on the wrong path it can only get worse.

On a daily basis I'm working on web applications with more than 5000 req/sec, so it's important to make sure your code performs.
Alaska Pipeline – Drastically increase Rails/Sprockets compilation speed
As someone who's been meaning to learn LESS or SASS, good to see this. SASS might be the way to go then..!
Isn't safety the whole point of ATC? Planes don't need ATC to get from place to place. They need ATC to keep them from bumping into each other while they do it. How is it anything but safety?
I heard a similar story (a joke from the communist era) around 1995 from a Czech colleague. It was about an artist whose works were never censored.

When the other artists asked him how he did it, he replied: "I always add a little white dog in my paintings. When the censor asks 'What is this dog?' I quickly remove it and he's satisfied."
I thought this was going to be a rehash of this http://www.wbez.org/series/curious-city/why-buses-arrive-bun... but then I saw maths. I'd love to see more articles/analyses like this.
This is one thing in humanity that will always kill me.
Because he did not waste time on Vogue fashion spreads?
Thanks for your reply!

I know, but this is still a common way of making objects. I've seen it several times, but I don't like it ;)

-sorenso-
I rebuilt my personal site on Flexbox in December last year after making the call that it was widely supported enough [1]. There were a few hiccups:

1. Safari's requirement to use the webkit- prefix is a pain. Thankfully there are SASS libraries that work around that [2], but you aren't using Flexbox directly.

2. Google's pagespeed tools doesn't support it. It's an ancient version of Webkit -- your mobile score will suffer. If that matters to you, you'll have to do some hacking to ensure that it doesn't affect things on the mobile side.

[1] for a personal site.

[2] https://github.com/philipwalton/solved-by-flexbox
I think you're building a bit of a strawman here yourself. MIRI's main argument is pretty simple: building a beneficial AGI is a difficult problem with more constraints than just building an AGI, so we should start working on that problem now, rather than waiting until AGI is almost here.
> Sadly, I haven't located it in the real world quite yet.

Static site generators were popular about 10 years ago. I inherited a legacy install of a popular one called Collage. It was more or less a nightmare to work with and a PITA compared to what you can do with a proper CMS. SSG's aren't the solution for most, if any, modern cases. You more or less have all the problems of a CMS, save security, and all the headaches of a deployment system in one, without the ease of things like add-ons or extensions.

A lot of your dynamic stuff will be custom code, so you have all the security problems as well, except without a worldwide community of coders reviewing your stuff. I've seen what jr webdevs or rushed sr devs do and its horrible. I'd rather take my chances with WP. From a monetary perspective loading up a module is much easier than constantly reinventing the wheel.
If I type "add printer" into the search on Fedora (Gnome Shell), the first item in the list is "Printers" with helpful text letting me know that this is the tool for adding printers. It's much easier than it used to be, IMO.
>> The sacrificial duck kept the meddling manager away from the stuff that was important.

The territorial dog analogy is perfect. I've seen parks where they put fake fire hydrants and other features in the dog area so they can feel satisfied without leaving their designated area.
This was my thought too. I've already asked you to "fix it for me" once. I feel to do so again would just be rude (and wasteful as now 2 slices would have to be put aside for another person, or thrown out)
>I'm asking why champions of gender equality seem to favor the tactic of exclusion.

The link the person you replied to posted seems to explain just that.
Apologies for merging the two in my head. However, as of now, you can still connect to Google Talk and the shutdown that was mentioned did not affect third party clients. The conclusion is that XMPP is still used at Google to some extent (although there is no way of telling how well or how long it will be used and supported in the future, but that is beside the point).
It's a dog-whistle to the person they want to work for.
Even with this new system MH370 could happen to an aircraft leaving the US. Both the pacific and atlantic oceans have giant radar black spots where aircraft aren't trackable and instead they rely on HF to guestimate where aircraft are [0].

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533871/could-passenger-...
[edit: seems they're not doing revenue based financing.]

"Nowhere in anything we’ve written publicly or discussed privately about indie.vc have we said we’re only interested in modest, cashflow businesses."

If they're not aiming for modest wins, then why wouldn't the startups be reinvesting as much revenue as possible back into further growth, instead of using it to immediately repay this loan? Eating up 80% of revenues to repay the loan sounds like a major damper to being able to reinvest toward further growth at those early stages.

And 100% revenue financing, instead of some kind of equity / revenue funding hybrid? Sounds like a recipe for all kinds of misaligned incentives.
Maybe for some, but even rude and abusive people do it.
Another thing is that even with more and more electronics coming into play, a car is still a mechanical system. As such, if a driver (user) complains about a new rattle or sound, the mechanical links can be traced back to the source.

And that touches on another thing. Computers are deeply visual. Yes, it can output sound and such. But most of the interaction is done by text and images. This means that when it is just sitting there with the screen off, you don't know if it is idle or transferring your porn collection of the NSA headquarters.

From time to time i wonder what would come out of putting a sniffer on the network and have it play some tones based on the packets picked up and their metadata.

All too often i find myself likening computers to small children. When they are noisy you can relax, but when they become quiet you really need to worry. This in particular when exposed to Windows, and its habit of announcing new USB devices with plings and popups.
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Ask HN: Help me transition my first app from ads to SaaS
I recently released my first app for iOS and Android: budgeting for families [1]. Think YNAB, but without the $60 price tag and no need to spend hours to set things up. The launch was a success in that I am getting continuous user signups. There is a core user base that is active and growing feedback has generally been positive. I think I built something people actually love and now use multiple times every single day. Moreover, it provides a value to my users in the range of $100's per month.

The problem is, I am not making any money from it and cannot see how I will unless I change things up. Initial idea was to add an AdMob banner at the top and give the app away for free. This doesn't work because my CTR is pretty much 0.000% on most days. Some days it goes as high as 0.07% but the CPC hovers around $0.05 so it's peanuts.

I personally don't like ads, in apps I use, or in software I make. It misaligns incentives: my goal is now to make people click on ads instead of using my app. This is the reason I don't want to add interstitials. I used ads in the first place because it let me put off deciding how much to charge.

So, I'd like to transition to a subscription or purchase model. Simplest solution: charge once for an app without ads. Problem with this is that I run the backend service, and once the user signs up I will never get anything else from them. I would price it somewhere between $3-8 but I don't think many users will think it's worth it just to not see a small banner.

Second idea is to restrict usage: you can only track X budgets, or you can only share them with X users before having to subscribe. The problem with this approach is that the vast majority of the current users have 1 budget that they share with nobody or just 1 other person. Not much of a long tail here.

Which would you choose? Also, how would you handle whatever transition you'd choose for the existing users?

Thanks in advance!

[1] http://family-fortune.ridgebit.com/
I'm not sure I understand your concerns.
Can you please elaborate?
> I'm asking why champions of gender equality seem to favor the tactic of exclusion.

b0rk addresses this in the post above.

In the case of GSoC, I expect it's not so much about harrassment but intimidation. When there's nothing but boys doing something, many girls think to themselves, "this is not something a girl like me should be doing."

Btw, why do you consider yourself such a patzer? I do hope it has nothing to do with your gender or skin tone, and that it's just a harmless joke.
If you're making more than $200k in revenue check out revenue financing:
http://www.lightercapital.com/

Seems like it might be a better deal than this.

But I'm a big fan of alternative models of financing than defaulting to VC or bootstrap everytime. There's room in the middle somewhere.