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font awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with twitter bootstrap
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<link> | brilliant. i absolutely love this, and will absolutely use font awesome in my next project.while the name font awesome is catchy, it doesn't say much about the product, and won't carry seo juice or meaning for your main selling point: better icons. a name like "fonticons" (pronounced like "emoticons") might be stronger, and you could own that term which may go generic (like "kleenex") if the technique is widely adopted.in fact, you could literally own it. after making sure a google search was relatively clean, and a uspto.gov trademark search was clear, i just registered the domain fonticons.com, and would be happy to give it to you if you want it as a token of appreciation for your project. | first, this is great. the bootstrap sprites definitely need some love and this is a solid forward step.i am close to dropping in font awesome, but the small font sizes really need work. here is a comparison screenshot of the standard bootstrap sprites vs font awesome sprites in chrome on mac: <link>, awesome work. font awesome is on my short list to use once it's cleaned up a bit. |
font awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with twitter bootstrap
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<link> | first, this is great. the bootstrap sprites definitely need some love and this is a solid forward step.i am close to dropping in font awesome, but the small font sizes really need work. here is a comparison screenshot of the standard bootstrap sprites vs font awesome sprites in chrome on mac: <link>, awesome work. font awesome is on my short list to use once it's cleaned up a bit. | i love font icons and these are great. thanks for sharing.two notes:1) when i first started using font icons, i encountered an issue that might be worth sharing - you need to make sure your web server properly handles the more esoteric file types that are included in the @font-face declaration.2) paperclip icon!!!! i'm sad when these icon sets are missing this very useful metaphor for "attachment": not "my dog just died" sad, more like "i wish i could fly" sad. i am just throwing that out there. |
font awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with twitter bootstrap
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<link> | i love font icons and these are great. thanks for sharing.two notes:1) when i first started using font icons, i encountered an issue that might be worth sharing - you need to make sure your web server properly handles the more esoteric file types that are included in the @font-face declaration.2) paperclip icon!!!! i'm sad when these icon sets are missing this very useful metaphor for "attachment": not "my dog just died" sad, more like "i wish i could fly" sad. i am just throwing that out there. | you have licensed this under the cc-by 3.0 license (which requires attribution 'in the manner specified by the author'), but i can't see anywhere that you've specified how it needs to be attributed if used.is this something you can elaborate on? |
font awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with twitter bootstrap
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<link> | you have licensed this under the cc-by 3.0 license (which requires attribution 'in the manner specified by the author'), but i can't see anywhere that you've specified how it needs to be attributed if used.is this something you can elaborate on? | yes, very awesome. makes implementation much easier. but having just removed a font from our web app to improve performance (download time and rendering time) i can't help but wonder if sprites aren't lighter weight than using a whole font when you only need a few icons. |
ps4 ux is powered by webgl
| there's a bit of irony in that the strengths of html5 shine through when confined to a single environment. if the best experience comes from targeting a single environment, then why go web at all? further, html is considered a strong contender for true cross-platform app support, which is where it fails the hardest. in my experience, it's less effort to target native apps per platform than to try and use something like phonegap for apps of reasonable quality and complexity.the single environment html5 showcase is also often supported by another development team who is actively trying to support their specific use cases; microsoft with ie/winjs, mozilla with firefox/webos, sony with a ps4-optimized webgl implementation, etc.when the big players hit roadblocks during the development of something as high profile as their ui for their next-gen console, the browser can be changed on-the-fly to overcome them. that option isn't available to the rest of the world, and "audio doesn't work like we need it to" being a solvable problem can certainly influence whether or not you believe html5 is a suitable app platform. | so they have a web browser for the sole purpose of setting up an gles context for their ui? on a video game console? i guess that's what you do when you suddenly have 8gb of ram, you piss it away on useless shit... |
ps4 ux is powered by webgl
| so they have a web browser for the sole purpose of setting up an gles context for their ui? on a video game console? i guess that's what you do when you suddenly have 8gb of ram, you piss it away on useless shit... | both steam and mac app stores are html as well. it really makes sense given how easy it is to create fluid layouts in browsers, as well as how much easier it is to prototype new changes from designers. |
ps4 ux is powered by webgl
| both steam and mac app stores are html as well. it really makes sense given how easy it is to create fluid layouts in browsers, as well as how much easier it is to prototype new changes from designers. | most game companies and associated now use embedded webkit that makes all this possible. apple webkit investment still paying dividends and benefitted so many areas including desktop browsers (chrome, now opera) that run on it.ea's open source initiatives almost all use an embedded webkit lib/browser to render ui content (some also use scaleform (flash) -- skate 3 uses it a bunch).<link> in the day ea did this more often, they also had an eastl for game optimized stl containers/usage: <link> |
ps4 ux is powered by webgl
| most game companies and associated now use embedded webkit that makes all this possible. apple webkit investment still paying dividends and benefitted so many areas including desktop browsers (chrome, now opera) that run on it.ea's open source initiatives almost all use an embedded webkit lib/browser to render ui content (some also use scaleform (flash) -- skate 3 uses it a bunch).<link> in the day ea did this more often, they also had an eastl for game optimized stl containers/usage: <link> | makes sense. html/css/js is not a bad way to build ui and if you're going to have an html rendering engine and js vm on your machine, you might as well use it.when webview on ios and android finally get webgl support ( what's taking so slong?!!?), native app development with native sdks will plummet. |
hulu desktop (mac and pc clients)
| probably the real reason they put up such a fight against boxee. | interesting note, it does not require an intel processor. the site went live with that in the requirements copy, but in truth it's just a suggested minimum in terms of processing power.i and @hulusupport hashed this out via twitter today and the copy should be changed to reflect this soon. |
hulu desktop (mac and pc clients)
| interesting note, it does not require an intel processor. the site went live with that in the requirements copy, but in truth it's just a suggested minimum in terms of processing power.i and @hulusupport hashed this out via twitter today and the copy should be changed to reflect this soon. | <link> features added today:-- video panel designer for clip embedding-- recommendations-- time-based browsing |
hulu desktop (mac and pc clients)
| <link> features added today:-- video panel designer for clip embedding-- recommendations-- time-based browsing | what an enormous waste -- why bother distributing a desktop app if you're going to stick with flash? taking the browser out of the mix doesn't solve anything except direct access to a remote control.the video rendering would be a full order of magnitude more efficient if it wasn't blitted through adobe's craptacular runtime firs, all just to get some measly overlays. |
hulu desktop (mac and pc clients)
| what an enormous waste -- why bother distributing a desktop app if you're going to stick with flash? taking the browser out of the mix doesn't solve anything except direct access to a remote control.the video rendering would be a full order of magnitude more efficient if it wasn't blitted through adobe's craptacular runtime firs, all just to get some measly overlays. | it'll be interesting to see how this works. as a user i'm a fan of thick clients, but it's an unanswered question whether and when thick clients are a valuable companion product for a web app. this is another data point to that question.(i guess twitter is another example of a place where thick clients have a clear place alongside the standard web thin client, but that's somewhat different in that these thick clients are, if i'm not mistaken, produced by third parties rather than twitter.) |
textmate 2 is not open source
| open source != free (as in beer) software.
when will people shove that in their head ?? | i do not understand: why should i contribute to a project, fix bugs, implement new features and then pay for my own work? it's senseless...
p.s.: i don't know how pull request are managed in tm2 project. if the author uses github only as issue tracker, it's another story. |
textmate 2 is not open source
| i do not understand: why should i contribute to a project, fix bugs, implement new features and then pay for my own work? it's senseless...
p.s.: i don't know how pull request are managed in tm2 project. if the author uses github only as issue tracker, it's another story. | kudos on not understanding what open source means. |
textmate 2 is not open source
| kudos on not understanding what open source means. | right. then red hat enterprise linux isn't open source either. neither is firefox or thunderbird. |
textmate 2 is not open source
| right. then red hat enterprise linux isn't open source either. neither is firefox or thunderbird. | official binaries available here free to download and install: <link> |
the api-ization of everything
| if only this were more true. api's for most things are...lacking.a dearth of api's is particularly bad in computer security.vendors: we have this great new device to monitor ___ and alert on it!customers: we'd like to integrate that with our other devices, and this hadoop cluster...vendors: we integrate with all kinds of stuff!customers: can you show me?vendors: you just go to our shitty web front end and click "export." you can get an excel file or .csv. it's that simple! or i think in the next version we can export to syslog. larry? do you know about the syslog thing? yeah, it's going to do that. we have our engineer working on it.customers: can i query the data directly?vendors: sure! just go to the web front end and arrange your boolean logic operations with this impossibly obtuse drag-and-drop graphical programming hack we came up with. focus groups love it, because you don't have to type to use it.customers: what if i want the machines to talk together and query each other without me having to type in a password and click the shitty web front end?vendors: crickets ... so how many do you want to buy?are you listening, potential yc candidates?by the way, when you write software, write the api first, then write your cool ui using the api. yeah, it's a little more difficult at first, but you'll save untold amounts of time in the long run and the product will be better for it.edit: in case this wasn't clear, i'm talking to you, you hn-reading recent college-grad who wants to start a company but needs a good idea that doesn't involve social networking. make network security products with great api's and sell them to companies. forget about the cheesy front-end, make it easy to get data into and out of. your target audience is techies who aren't baffled by databases and are willing to spend a month hacking on a system if it helps them query huge amounts of data quickly. also, you want to charge less than the cost of these techies making the system themselves. go. | sadly, apis are not the solution.web 1.0:that guy is bright. he knows everything about the solar system. you can ask him any question about it, and chances are that he knows the answer.he's also quite good at explaining this stuff, and it's much more accessible than reading these complicated books about space.he won't listen to others, though. he only trust his books.web 2.0:that girl is popular. she has so many friends, and she's always the first to know about any gossip. heck, that's all she does.tell her something, and it's quite likely that the whole school will know about it the next day. she keeps track of every rumor in her journal, to make sure to remember every detail.she's a bit naive, though, and tend to believe every rumor she hears.web 2.5 (apis):that guy is serious. he doesn't play games. you want something? he'll make sure you get it.don't bother calling or meeting him though, it's not worth his time. here's a form you can fill to let him know exactly what you want. sure, it looks a bit complex at first sight, but you'll get used to it. the first time is always the most difficult. you can call his assistant if you need help filling the form, though.once you hand him the form, it's a matter of hours before you get what you asked for. he's that fast.web 3.0 (semantic web):where is everybody? that's right, they're all at the bulletin board. what is it you ask? it's where all the cool kids hangout.want to let the world know something? anything? just pin something there. you have to follow the rules, though. you can't just write some gibberish on a piece of paper, you must communicate using the proper syntax, and learn to call things by their unique names (nobody's going to take you seriously if you make some ambiguous statements).once you learn the drill, though, it's fantastic. you can find anything you want there, as long as you know how to navigate it. no need to ask anything to anyone, no need to learn a bunch of different ways to say the same things (it's so annoying when that other astronomy kid use different terms to describe the same thing as the first guy i told you about). i used to be limited by what individual people i met wanted to talk about. with that board, there's no such limit. i can communicate anything, get there the next day and see an answer."the only limit is yourself" - zombo.comconclusion:the web 2.5 (api web) is limited by what the service let you do. you want to do something that is outside the scope of that particular service? too bad, you gotta create your own company and ultimately face failure.these services are too rigid (lack flexibility), they're opinionated and non-standard (you have to learn every service all over again, 10 extremely similar services will have totally different apis and ways to call and model things), and ultimately, you have to level-down your solution based on the limitations of the service. it's not a proper way to live.sure, it's nice and all that we agreed to all communicate using voice and ears, but we still all speak different languages, and having to learn the language of anyone i want to talk to is painful.we must unify semantics, not just the medium (json/xml). over are the days where you model your classes yourself. |
the api-ization of everything
| sadly, apis are not the solution.web 1.0:that guy is bright. he knows everything about the solar system. you can ask him any question about it, and chances are that he knows the answer.he's also quite good at explaining this stuff, and it's much more accessible than reading these complicated books about space.he won't listen to others, though. he only trust his books.web 2.0:that girl is popular. she has so many friends, and she's always the first to know about any gossip. heck, that's all she does.tell her something, and it's quite likely that the whole school will know about it the next day. she keeps track of every rumor in her journal, to make sure to remember every detail.she's a bit naive, though, and tend to believe every rumor she hears.web 2.5 (apis):that guy is serious. he doesn't play games. you want something? he'll make sure you get it.don't bother calling or meeting him though, it's not worth his time. here's a form you can fill to let him know exactly what you want. sure, it looks a bit complex at first sight, but you'll get used to it. the first time is always the most difficult. you can call his assistant if you need help filling the form, though.once you hand him the form, it's a matter of hours before you get what you asked for. he's that fast.web 3.0 (semantic web):where is everybody? that's right, they're all at the bulletin board. what is it you ask? it's where all the cool kids hangout.want to let the world know something? anything? just pin something there. you have to follow the rules, though. you can't just write some gibberish on a piece of paper, you must communicate using the proper syntax, and learn to call things by their unique names (nobody's going to take you seriously if you make some ambiguous statements).once you learn the drill, though, it's fantastic. you can find anything you want there, as long as you know how to navigate it. no need to ask anything to anyone, no need to learn a bunch of different ways to say the same things (it's so annoying when that other astronomy kid use different terms to describe the same thing as the first guy i told you about). i used to be limited by what individual people i met wanted to talk about. with that board, there's no such limit. i can communicate anything, get there the next day and see an answer."the only limit is yourself" - zombo.comconclusion:the web 2.5 (api web) is limited by what the service let you do. you want to do something that is outside the scope of that particular service? too bad, you gotta create your own company and ultimately face failure.these services are too rigid (lack flexibility), they're opinionated and non-standard (you have to learn every service all over again, 10 extremely similar services will have totally different apis and ways to call and model things), and ultimately, you have to level-down your solution based on the limitations of the service. it's not a proper way to live.sure, it's nice and all that we agreed to all communicate using voice and ears, but we still all speak different languages, and having to learn the language of anyone i want to talk to is painful.we must unify semantics, not just the medium (json/xml). over are the days where you model your classes yourself. | unix had this right decades ago, in the form of text-in-text-out commands, pipes in between + text-based terminals in between machines. os's like windows broke that. it's good to see the philosophy returning. as long as everything is represented as structured text!and an side: api's should not be patentable or copyrightable, no more than a language is. because that's exactly what api's are. common languages for machines to speak to each other. |
the api-ization of everything
| unix had this right decades ago, in the form of text-in-text-out commands, pipes in between + text-based terminals in between machines. os's like windows broke that. it's good to see the philosophy returning. as long as everything is represented as structured text!and an side: api's should not be patentable or copyrightable, no more than a language is. because that's exactly what api's are. common languages for machines to speak to each other. | for consumers, "there's an app for that".for businesses, "there's an api for that". |
the api-ization of everything
| for consumers, "there's an app for that".for businesses, "there's an api for that". | we built a product that we built about 7 years ago using soap web services. we built a large front-end (something like 500 screens) in adobe flex. now, we're rewriting it using the latest javascript web libraries, html, css, etc... we wrapped the soap/xml service calls inside a json parser/interpreter...bottom line, it's amazing how easy it has been rebuilding the front-end when the original app was already built from a backend api. i don't think we purposely knew how future-proof we were making our server apis.now days i thought this was an obvious choise. even if the api is for internal applications. |
fbi pressures internet providers to install surveillance software
| it's very simple: a free country is run by free software by definition. a free country has published laws that are implemented and debugged (adjudicated) in public.if the fbi wants carriers to install software on their network devices, the fbi is implementing regulatory law as code in the network substrate. the source and its build and development process must be public. they have no magic tricks and there is no unknown capability that this could compromise. it's simply a requirement for a country governed by the law. it's how we watch the watchers.seeing as how we can't even get voting machine source code released, i have little faith that the spy state will cede its code in the near future. given this, it's now time for all able-minded hackers to build tools for personal liberty and spread them far and wide. godspeed. | by request i just posted this 2006 court opinion that says all email headers except subject: lines are metadata. no wiretap order required to do a live intercept:
<link> |
fbi pressures internet providers to install surveillance software
| by request i just posted this 2006 court opinion that says all email headers except subject: lines are metadata. no wiretap order required to do a live intercept:
<link> | wait so this captures http request "metadata" - is that everything but the body of the request?but it also sounds like more. they're talking about facebook correspondence names, email address "to"s and "froms" - stuff you can't get out of http "metadata" but have to analyze the content body and extract. so if they're analyzing content, isn't that a line they're crossing into content?and how are "internet search terms" metadata? i guess if it's part of the url as query parameters it's metadata? |
fbi pressures internet providers to install surveillance software
| wait so this captures http request "metadata" - is that everything but the body of the request?but it also sounds like more. they're talking about facebook correspondence names, email address "to"s and "froms" - stuff you can't get out of http "metadata" but have to analyze the content body and extract. so if they're analyzing content, isn't that a line they're crossing into content?and how are "internet search terms" metadata? i guess if it's part of the url as query parameters it's metadata? | i have been reading the cypherpunks archives recently, and have noticed that declan was pretty active on that list. thought it worth mentioning, as his articles have been popping up on hn with increasing frequency. |
fbi pressures internet providers to install surveillance software
| i have been reading the cypherpunks archives recently, and have noticed that declan was pretty active on that list. thought it worth mentioning, as his articles have been popping up on hn with increasing frequency. | in any other civilized country, after being caught spying, governments would be ashamed and massacrated by public opinion and politicians would review and stop their actions immediatly.. but in us they(the big brother) have no shame at all.. they continue to do it as if theres nothing wrong with.. and people just act normal while civil rights get shattered appart in pieces..people need to get real.. this is pretty serious.. this will have a great impact and damage not only on civil rights but also in business..im sure a lot of people form outside us are waking up and will start to build their own local versions of sucessful us bussiness.. and this is just the tip of the iceberg..
we can think of a lot of other things coming, and none of the are good for anybody |
die, vpn: we're all "telecommuters" now—and it must adjust
| i'm not sure i see what the big issue is with vpn access.the author complains that vpn connections choke the user's bandwidth, but i am not sure i know many examples of this. typically through a vpn connection i will see higher latency to external internet point if the company does not allow split-tunnel routing. however, decreases in the user's bandwidth only occur if the company does not have the appropriate bandwidth available for the number of vpn users logged in. perhaps i am just lucky, but i've never had this problem.regarding the pain of logging in, cisco's new cisco anyconnect vpn automatically re-authenticates you to the vpn session so you don't need to keep signing in as you shift locations. microsoft's directaccess allows you to have a vpn session automatically established with no additional authentication necessary whenever it finds a network connection available.the author proposes cloud services? those don't work too well for large companies in my opinion. in fact, i don't think they work well for small companies yet either. google docs just doesn't have the functionality required and still lacks the idea of having centralized repositories of information. if you want to share a document with your entire google apps organization, you can "share it" but the people in your organization must know to search for it in order to discover it. there is no way to browse "all documents in my company" which creates a huge pain.most companies and their employees, especially fortune 100 companies, utilize "network volumes". go into one of these company's and talk to the employees. "oh, that is on my u drive, and the other documents, those are in the company wide public share on my p drive". they browse to these files seamlessly over the vpn, edit them, and they are updated on the remote server.vpns also help ensure compliance (though they definitely don't guarantee it). you no longer need to worry whether every single cloud service you are using has the proper security configuration. there may be some wiggle room here, but i know that with active directory group policies, i can really lock things down on users through one centralized management interface. if i have 10 cloud services, i have 10 different things i need to worry about locking down. | this reads as a very ignorant article and doesn't even come close to addressing the issues that are faced by enterprise it teams. as soon as you let users bring their own devices (whatever they are) onto your corporate network your security concerns now include those devices. who knows what bob in accounting is letting his kid do with his laptop when he gets home at night. all the sudden your entire network is compromised or infected because using a vpn or employer provided devices is "hard".the bandwidth argument is really not valid anymore. just about everyone can get broadband at home and most sensible organizations will allow split tunneling so your non-work related traffic can go out whatever local connection you're on. |
die, vpn: we're all "telecommuters" now—and it must adjust
| this reads as a very ignorant article and doesn't even come close to addressing the issues that are faced by enterprise it teams. as soon as you let users bring their own devices (whatever they are) onto your corporate network your security concerns now include those devices. who knows what bob in accounting is letting his kid do with his laptop when he gets home at night. all the sudden your entire network is compromised or infected because using a vpn or employer provided devices is "hard".the bandwidth argument is really not valid anymore. just about everyone can get broadband at home and most sensible organizations will allow split tunneling so your non-work related traffic can go out whatever local connection you're on. | i'm curious about the part about no one liking dealing with vpns. i have only used an openvpn network for my private use, not any entreprise-class system, but i don't have much to complain about. once i got how it worked, it was pretty painless to use.is it due to the policies and the way they are applied in big companies ? the tools ? |
die, vpn: we're all "telecommuters" now—and it must adjust
| i'm curious about the part about no one liking dealing with vpns. i have only used an openvpn network for my private use, not any entreprise-class system, but i don't have much to complain about. once i got how it worked, it was pretty painless to use.is it due to the policies and the way they are applied in big companies ? the tools ? | this doesn't strike me as very realistic. aside from the issue of token-based security vs. other auth mechanisms, how else are you going to establish a secure connection to a private network aside from a vpn-like tunnel? |
die, vpn: we're all "telecommuters" now—and it must adjust
| this doesn't strike me as very realistic. aside from the issue of token-based security vs. other auth mechanisms, how else are you going to establish a secure connection to a private network aside from a vpn-like tunnel? | this article really comes off as a prima donna developer, who may understand how infrastructure works, but not why strategic decisions are made.security is the primary driver for vpns, and a significant driver for it-controlled devices. maintainability of the infrastructure is another large drivers for devices. and finally, cost control of your support organization is easier when they have a limited scope to what devices and configurations they will support.it isn't that his points are incorrect -- they are just pretty minor compared to the actual business drivers of enterprise it. |
why does france insist school pupils master philosophy?
| "to complete the education of young men and women and permit them to think."yes. perfect. this is important, they're doing it right. i would venture to say that the specialization of the us education system, and the increased specialization especially in engineering and computer sciences and in the sciences in general, is one of the largest problems in higher education today.it's so important to learn how to think, to learn how to learn, to learn how fields are connected and interrelated even in indirect ways, and simply to learn that knowledge you cannot directly use still has value in its ability to train your mind to think about problems and make connections in new ways.i am supremely thankful for my bachelor of arts in comp sci, for it gave me the freedom to take classes outside engineering, in the arts. this liberal (aka comprehensive, varied, generous) arts education makes my computer science education flourish, and i believe has made me into the well-balanced person i am today.what we need today are not people who can think intensely about one subject—we need people who can think about how to think, and apply that to anything. well, we need both, surely, but we need some more generalists, or perhaps specialists who aren't myopic. we're getting overspecialized in the us, i think.en d'autres termes, bonne travail france! | (ba philosophy here) the biggest problem is that philosophy courses, all too often, are actually "history of philosophy" courses. regurgitating plato or descartes becomes the objective, rather than applying logic and philosophical methods to modern problems.everyone really should take class in symbolic logic. |
why does france insist school pupils master philosophy?
| (ba philosophy here) the biggest problem is that philosophy courses, all too often, are actually "history of philosophy" courses. regurgitating plato or descartes becomes the objective, rather than applying logic and philosophical methods to modern problems.everyone really should take class in symbolic logic. | good article. i'm french and i did this (but in science, not literature like in the article). i've also been to us college for one semester and i had the chance to take an "intro to philosophy" freshman class. so i've had two formal introductory philosophy classes, in different languages, cultures and contexts, but definitely aimed at the same public (17-19 y. old). it's quite interesting to compare these two. in france the focus was definitely more on authors, philosophical theories, texts and ideas. in america the material was more on reasoning, logic and formal arguments. never once were we presented a formal modus ponens layout in france. we were told never to write our own ideas in our essays --- "you'll do that if you get a master in philosophy". however the american class had too much of "learn those 10 arguments by heart" i would say. so they definitely had subtle and interesting differences.of course both had their share of "how the hell is this relevant to my life" reactions. but also those invaluable "ahah" moments, which make philosophy so wonderful. hacking has this too. you walk out of the classroom with new cognitive pathways that you didn't know you had. you'll never see the world with the same eyes again. |
why does france insist school pupils master philosophy?
| good article. i'm french and i did this (but in science, not literature like in the article). i've also been to us college for one semester and i had the chance to take an "intro to philosophy" freshman class. so i've had two formal introductory philosophy classes, in different languages, cultures and contexts, but definitely aimed at the same public (17-19 y. old). it's quite interesting to compare these two. in france the focus was definitely more on authors, philosophical theories, texts and ideas. in america the material was more on reasoning, logic and formal arguments. never once were we presented a formal modus ponens layout in france. we were told never to write our own ideas in our essays --- "you'll do that if you get a master in philosophy". however the american class had too much of "learn those 10 arguments by heart" i would say. so they definitely had subtle and interesting differences.of course both had their share of "how the hell is this relevant to my life" reactions. but also those invaluable "ahah" moments, which make philosophy so wonderful. hacking has this too. you walk out of the classroom with new cognitive pathways that you didn't know you had. you'll never see the world with the same eyes again. | my university (in usa) has a rather large set of required "core" courses, the inner core of which are a full year of literature and a full year of western philosophy. we read and discuss, in these two years, on the order of 40 classic works (!) of philosophy and literature. i personally believe that this is an excellent experience for those who have had minimal contact with the world of humanities.as a math+physics student with a bunch of friends in my university's engineering school, i hear all too often engineers disparaging the humanities as "useless", "bullshit", etc. and it's really quite disappointing and close-minded. they simply miss out on an incredibly important and fundamental part of the human experience. it is almost impossible to overstate the significance (historical or otherwise) of philosophy and literature, to the point where i would expect anyone who considers himself an "intellectual" to have had at least brief experiences with the humanities (or at least thought about difficult philosophical questions or whatnot on his own time). |
why does france insist school pupils master philosophy?
| my university (in usa) has a rather large set of required "core" courses, the inner core of which are a full year of literature and a full year of western philosophy. we read and discuss, in these two years, on the order of 40 classic works (!) of philosophy and literature. i personally believe that this is an excellent experience for those who have had minimal contact with the world of humanities.as a math+physics student with a bunch of friends in my university's engineering school, i hear all too often engineers disparaging the humanities as "useless", "bullshit", etc. and it's really quite disappointing and close-minded. they simply miss out on an incredibly important and fundamental part of the human experience. it is almost impossible to overstate the significance (historical or otherwise) of philosophy and literature, to the point where i would expect anyone who considers himself an "intellectual" to have had at least brief experiences with the humanities (or at least thought about difficult philosophical questions or whatnot on his own time). | generally speaking, i think today's philosophy courses should focus on the big historical picture with emphasis on modern philosophers, as opposed to studying tomes like the republic in painful detail. while it's easy to get lost in a sea of infinitely regressing metaphysics, i think there's value in applied philosophy (i don't think philosophy is useful in isolation).1. the scientific method. starting from the logical positivist school of thought, philosophers are converging at falsifiability as the primary criterion (cf. popper, wittgenstein).2. justice. starting with rather crude notions of utilitarianism, it is possible to construct a transcendental notion of justice that is based on fairness (cf. rawls, sen). it is also possible to approach it from a theory on transcendental morality (cf. kant).3. consciousness. this is a rather tricky topic that can be tackled by an analytical philosopher who has studied some neuroscience (cf. metzinger).4. tackling the free will problem. when tackled in isolation, there is a dichotomy between compatibilism and incompatibilism (cf. schopenhauer). however, attempts have been made to derive it from quantum decoherence and mwi (cf. yudkowsky on lesswrong [1]).5. foundations of mathematics. while there are prominent platonists (cf. gödel), there are several alternative approaches to the problem (cf. spinoza, hilbert).to conclude, i'd say that some training in philosophical thought is essential to enabling the student in thinking about various questions that pop up during her lifetime. the goal is not to get definitive answers, but to have a good consistent framework to think in.[1]: <link> |
ordnance survey launches its first maps app for ios
| 2 it’s rather surprising that it’s taken this long for the os to put its work on ios, but the agency has at last come up with an official app.not so surprising if you consider that the ordnance survey focuses on other stuff, rather than the newest tech gadgets. having maps on the phone is really nice for "casual" uses and navigation in towns, but this is covered quite well by the existing solutions. if i go trekking i much prefer a paper map which is larger and more robust to essentially all mishaps. | worth nothing the os maps for the uk are currently available through bing maps.the os also supports one of my all time favourite sites: <link> this project "aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of great britain and ireland". |
ordnance survey launches its first maps app for ios
| worth nothing the os maps for the uk are currently available through bing maps.the os also supports one of my all time favourite sites: <link> this project "aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of great britain and ireland". | i've been navigating using os maps on my iphone for over a year now using viewranger. to "download" an os map you still have to pay - viewranger license the data from the ordnance survey. they charge you so that they can pay os for the maps.but it's all quite seamless and convenient - you "download" pack of a tokens from the app store, and then "use" them to download map tiles as and when you need them.i'm not sure what an iphone map written by os themselves would give me that viewranger does not do already.i wonder what their motive is? i.e. why isn't the current model of "licensing" the map data to third party app writers sufficient? |
ordnance survey launches its first maps app for ios
| i've been navigating using os maps on my iphone for over a year now using viewranger. to "download" an os map you still have to pay - viewranger license the data from the ordnance survey. they charge you so that they can pay os for the maps.but it's all quite seamless and convenient - you "download" pack of a tokens from the app store, and then "use" them to download map tiles as and when you need them.i'm not sure what an iphone map written by os themselves would give me that viewranger does not do already.i wonder what their motive is? i.e. why isn't the current model of "licensing" the map data to third party app writers sufficient? | the extraordinary quality of ordinance survey maps suggests this was far from trivial, even if an ios map app was a priority for os, which i doubt.anyone from the uk already knows this but for those who plan to travel in the uk, these are the finest maps i have ever seen or used, and indeed have used them a lot. the 1:50,000 sheets for n wales (snowdonia), isle of skye, and applecross, among many others, are treasures.taking a casual walk with the family (e.g., around langdale in the lake district) with a os 1:25,000 os map is an interactive history less every step of the way--"oh look, says here there's a celtic burial chamber just up ahead on your left" |
ordnance survey launches its first maps app for ios
| the extraordinary quality of ordinance survey maps suggests this was far from trivial, even if an ios map app was a priority for os, which i doubt.anyone from the uk already knows this but for those who plan to travel in the uk, these are the finest maps i have ever seen or used, and indeed have used them a lot. the 1:50,000 sheets for n wales (snowdonia), isle of skye, and applecross, among many others, are treasures.taking a casual walk with the family (e.g., around langdale in the lake district) with a os 1:25,000 os map is an interactive history less every step of the way--"oh look, says here there's a celtic burial chamber just up ahead on your left" | i've been using the ukmap app for os maps for a couple of years. it'll be interesting to see what (if anything) this offers over and above that one. |
ask hn: remember mailchimp integration fund? anyone else got a reply?
i submitted my idea to mailchimp some 3 weeks back, i just a reply from them. anyone else got a reply? | hi:
i got a reply by mail, then a follow-up call with a very friendly chimp. my project is probably not a perfect fit, but it was designed to help startups and i had planned to subsidize the service to free with the funds.it's been a week or so with no follow-up, so probably not in.but, i love this movement of successful companies giving back to the startup community. good press, good business, good will with future customers.mailchimp rocks. good luck to everyone that applied. | mailchimp integration fund (clickable): <link> |
ask hn: remember mailchimp integration fund? anyone else got a reply?
i submitted my idea to mailchimp some 3 weeks back, i just a reply from them. anyone else got a reply? | mailchimp integration fund (clickable): <link> | in my case, i'm in the process of setting a phone call with a certain chimp. :p
my project could potentially help mailchimp get more potential customers, not a new concept.. hopefully i can draft out a decent delivery plan on the idea.i think both mailchimp and twilio did really well in this aspect to give back to the community. |
ask hn: remember mailchimp integration fund? anyone else got a reply?
i submitted my idea to mailchimp some 3 weeks back, i just a reply from them. anyone else got a reply? | in my case, i'm in the process of setting a phone call with a certain chimp. :p
my project could potentially help mailchimp get more potential customers, not a new concept.. hopefully i can draft out a decent delivery plan on the idea.i think both mailchimp and twilio did really well in this aspect to give back to the community. | "i just a reply from them"what did they say? |
ask hn: remember mailchimp integration fund? anyone else got a reply?
i submitted my idea to mailchimp some 3 weeks back, i just a reply from them. anyone else got a reply? | "i just a reply from them"what did they say? | i submitted my idea at about the same time but haven't heard back. |
how to bootstrap your company to profitability
| love this article. if you're going to start a company because you're confident in your technical ability, you can start a consultancy easily; tens of thousands of devs freelance, running single-person consultancies instead of taking w2 from a single company. a small consulting company is a better starting point for a new business than a full-time job. | the author mentions 10+ years experience at running startups but according to the blurb he's 26.it also looks like he was doing consulting work to pay the bills between his 3rd startup and carbonmade... for a full 18 months. that doesn't make much sense to me. how can you first sell 3 profitable companies and then go back to consulting for 18 months while trying to bootstrap a new company?i can only guess to the explanation...i also question some of his advice. "your first dollar validates your product, your business model, and everything else" contradicts my experience. so i'm a little skeptical. |
how to bootstrap your company to profitability
| the author mentions 10+ years experience at running startups but according to the blurb he's 26.it also looks like he was doing consulting work to pay the bills between his 3rd startup and carbonmade... for a full 18 months. that doesn't make much sense to me. how can you first sell 3 profitable companies and then go back to consulting for 18 months while trying to bootstrap a new company?i can only guess to the explanation...i also question some of his advice. "your first dollar validates your product, your business model, and everything else" contradicts my experience. so i'm a little skeptical. | looks to me that spencer fry would be a good candidate for mixergy |
how to bootstrap your company to profitability
| looks to me that spencer fry would be a good candidate for mixergy | well written with good tips, and inspiring |
how to bootstrap your company to profitability
| well written with good tips, and inspiring | great article.to which i'd add:the only real downside of bootstrapping while consulting is that consulting is a soulsuck, and it's so much more fun to work on your own thing. or, consulting is so much of a soulsuck, that it depletes your energy to even work on your own thing.you just have to monitor your energy 8 passion levels carefully to ensure you make choices that help you keep both balls rolling.we're doing the same - and i just quit consulting a couple mos ago. it's fabulous to look at my fledgling product, designed just how i wanted to, and know it will start grossing $10,000/mo in just a few more short weeks. |
mdn database disclosure
| there is much that could be done to improve this announcement:1- what does "encrypted, salted passwords" mean? md5 with a static salt? holy shit, that's a problem. bcrypt? less so. i have no context to know how concerned i should be, or any indication of how incompetent, or awesome, mozilla's existing processes and defenses are. fail.2- they talk about a "data sanitization process" failing, but then talk about a "database dump file" being publicly accessible. say what? this could mean anything from "an input validation error allow wrong passwords to work" to "we do a regular database dump, and store that on a public http directory for some cron job to grab." without explanation, i assume the worst. fail.3- "while we have not been able to detect malicious activity on that server..." again, without the context of what happens, this statement is worthless. if you leaked the database of your users, i won't expect any malicious activity. an adversary wouldn't attack mozilla. they would crack the passwords of the users and attempt to hijack their accounts on other sites that matter, like, banking or ecommerce sites. at best mozilla knows this and just wanted to include some proof-point that at least they have logs/basic monitoring of stuff in place, and wanted to save face. at worse, mozilla truly believes that someone not actively attacking them somehow means that nothing bad will happen from this loss, which is stupid. and mozilla's security usually isn't stupid. fail.4-" in addition to notifying users and recommending short term fixes, we’re also taking a look at the processes and principles that are in place that may be made better to reduce the likelihood of something like this happening again." this is a completely unsatisfactory statement. if you just discovered the problem this afternoon, like, "oh shit, why is the a .sql dump in our http readable /backups/ folder?" then saying "hey, we discovered a problem, we think we have stopped it, and we are looking into our processes" is a reasonable response. however when you have "just concluded an investigation" you should, i don't know, tell us your conclusions maybe? what happened? why did it happen? what changed in your existing system that allowed it to happen? or has this short coming always existed? if so, who is defining/vetting your processes? what are you doing so this issue doesn't happen again? what other thing are you doing to watch the thing that's going to make sure it doesn't happen again? instead, we get a generic statement. fail.while not as completely opaque as some "oh no, we got pwn3d" posts, this blog post has completely failed to do the 3 things any post of this kind should do: 1) educate me about what happened 2) help me understand the risk mozilla's actions have exposed me to, and 3) give me confidence by demonstrating clear actions you are taking so this won't happen again.yes attacks happen, but when a company or organization is up front, honest, and over communicates, it does wonders to calm the situation.mozilla, i expect more from you. | i have been wondering who leaked my address after i started getting the "e.n.l.a.r.g.e...y.o.u.r....." spam exactly about a month ago.initially i thought that it might have been my fault for entering the email address where i shouldn't have. i am disappointed that such processes are even architecturally possible at mozilla where internal data is exposed externally.also, this has raised a question. almost everybody knows that passwords must be hashed and salted. but i haven't see anywhere encrypted email addresses. are there any strongly negative consequences to encrypting sensitive personal data in databases? |
mdn database disclosure
| i have been wondering who leaked my address after i started getting the "e.n.l.a.r.g.e...y.o.u.r....." spam exactly about a month ago.initially i thought that it might have been my fault for entering the email address where i shouldn't have. i am disappointed that such processes are even architecturally possible at mozilla where internal data is exposed externally.also, this has raised a question. almost everybody knows that passwords must be hashed and salted. but i haven't see anywhere encrypted email addresses. are there any strongly negative consequences to encrypting sensitive personal data in databases? | can someone explain the meaning of "data sanitization process of the site database had been failing"isn't that another way of saying sql injection ? |
mdn database disclosure
| can someone explain the meaning of "data sanitization process of the site database had been failing"isn't that another way of saying sql injection ? | i don't understand why they had to do this, couldn't they just use a schema dump with random data? they are already setting the passwords to null and names to a random number in their sanitization script... |
mdn database disclosure
| i don't understand why they had to do this, couldn't they just use a schema dump with random data? they are already setting the passwords to null and names to a random number in their sanitization script... | emails were just sent out to users, full text: <link> |
ask hn: how do you manage leads properly?
i'm at that stage where the product is built, and it's time to reach out to leads. however, it's getting overwhelming quickly.<p>i was wondering if anyone has a system or process for managing cold email or cold-call leads? right now i basically have a massive excel spreadsheet and am considering boomerang for receipt/click management. i feel there has to be a more methodical and steady way to reach out to hundreds of leads while maintaining each thread & progress state properly.<p>in my particular case, i'm currently cold-emailing but depending on the larger scale results could switch to cold-call. | i once met a guy in ruby meetup who has built <link> sounds like it's something you are looking for. | have you looked at radius (<link> never used it, but recently came across it while doing market research. |
ask hn: how do you manage leads properly?
i'm at that stage where the product is built, and it's time to reach out to leads. however, it's getting overwhelming quickly.<p>i was wondering if anyone has a system or process for managing cold email or cold-call leads? right now i basically have a massive excel spreadsheet and am considering boomerang for receipt/click management. i feel there has to be a more methodical and steady way to reach out to hundreds of leads while maintaining each thread & progress state properly.<p>in my particular case, i'm currently cold-emailing but depending on the larger scale results could switch to cold-call. | have you looked at radius (<link> never used it, but recently came across it while doing market research. | i don't have the task of managing leads, but i think salesforce is the standard certainly beyond a certain size. not sure if that is too big for your use case. |
ask hn: how do you manage leads properly?
i'm at that stage where the product is built, and it's time to reach out to leads. however, it's getting overwhelming quickly.<p>i was wondering if anyone has a system or process for managing cold email or cold-call leads? right now i basically have a massive excel spreadsheet and am considering boomerang for receipt/click management. i feel there has to be a more methodical and steady way to reach out to hundreds of leads while maintaining each thread & progress state properly.<p>in my particular case, i'm currently cold-emailing but depending on the larger scale results could switch to cold-call. | i don't have the task of managing leads, but i think salesforce is the standard certainly beyond a certain size. not sure if that is too big for your use case. | where i work, we use podio (now part of citrix).it is free (until you reach 5 users) and is fully customizable. i highly recommend. |
ask hn: how do you manage leads properly?
i'm at that stage where the product is built, and it's time to reach out to leads. however, it's getting overwhelming quickly.<p>i was wondering if anyone has a system or process for managing cold email or cold-call leads? right now i basically have a massive excel spreadsheet and am considering boomerang for receipt/click management. i feel there has to be a more methodical and steady way to reach out to hundreds of leads while maintaining each thread & progress state properly.<p>in my particular case, i'm currently cold-emailing but depending on the larger scale results could switch to cold-call. | where i work, we use podio (now part of citrix).it is free (until you reach 5 users) and is fully customizable. i highly recommend. | have you tried pipedrive? (<link> or you are looking for something open source? |
write json schema in markdown (mson proposal)
| what problem do you have that mson solves? | i write json schema in yaml, then js-yaml it to json. the source yaml looks remarkably similar to mson |
write json schema in markdown (mson proposal)
| i write json schema in yaml, then js-yaml it to json. the source yaml looks remarkably similar to mson | slightly off-topic - any recommendations on the best javascript/node json schema library? |
write json schema in markdown (mson proposal)
| slightly off-topic - any recommendations on the best javascript/node json schema library? | we mostly need a replacement for json schema, which is not quite powerful enough. |
write json schema in markdown (mson proposal)
| we mostly need a replacement for json schema, which is not quite powerful enough. | much benefit over coffeescript? |
xdomain: a pure javascript cors alternative
| this is an interesting hack: a host script can communicate with scripts in an iframe via the postmessage api and relying on the fact that a script running in the frame can make same-domain requests.i am worried that people will choose this option just because it is easier rather than use what is technically the right thing to do. (cors) please don't use this unless you really have to. the arguments against cors in the readme aren't really compelling. the web is messy enough as it is. | xdomain is not a cors polyfill as incorrectly stated in the readme. if it actually supported cors, you could configure it with access-control-* headers and it would magically work. i wrote pmxdr[1] and libxdr[2] 5 years ago, which enable the same functionality while also actually supporting cors headers, so it does magically work after dropping in.[1]: <link>
[2]: <link> |
xdomain: a pure javascript cors alternative
| xdomain is not a cors polyfill as incorrectly stated in the readme. if it actually supported cors, you could configure it with access-control-* headers and it would magically work. i wrote pmxdr[1] and libxdr[2] 5 years ago, which enable the same functionality while also actually supporting cors headers, so it does magically work after dropping in.[1]: <link>
[2]: <link> | conceptual overview
xdomain will create an iframe on the master to the slave's proxy.
master will communicate to slave iframe using postmessage.
slave will create xhrs on behalf of master then return the results.
xhr interception is done seamlessly via xhook.
this sounds like some rather complex hack and to promote this as a silver-bullet instead of cors seems a little odd or maybe even irresponsible to be honest. q: but i love cors
a: you shouldn't. you should use xdomain because...
can you ensure that browsers or ad blockers won't block this kind of behaviour. do you really want to go through those hoops just to save you from setting up a (server-side) proxy in the worst case, or try to get who you need to use cors with to allow it on their domain? |
xdomain: a pure javascript cors alternative
| conceptual overview
xdomain will create an iframe on the master to the slave's proxy.
master will communicate to slave iframe using postmessage.
slave will create xhrs on behalf of master then return the results.
xhr interception is done seamlessly via xhook.
this sounds like some rather complex hack and to promote this as a silver-bullet instead of cors seems a little odd or maybe even irresponsible to be honest. q: but i love cors
a: you shouldn't. you should use xdomain because...
can you ensure that browsers or ad blockers won't block this kind of behaviour. do you really want to go through those hoops just to save you from setting up a (server-side) proxy in the worst case, or try to get who you need to use cors with to allow it on their domain? | for me xdomain is an essential tool to get cors working in ie, for example when building a spa with the api on a different domain. very easy to implement and works transparently without needing to change anything else. |
xdomain: a pure javascript cors alternative
| for me xdomain is an essential tool to get cors working in ie, for example when building a spa with the api on a different domain. very easy to implement and works transparently without needing to change anything else. | > ie uses a different api (xdomainrequest) for cors...this is true and is pretty sad. i'm sure ms had various internally-focused reasons for it, but it has really held the world back. that said, it appears they finally got with the program as of ie10[1].[1] <link> |
ask hn: what startups write c heavily?
just curious. | large scale environments where real performance matters.i wrote a system the has to handle 4 billion transactions a day and a peak of 45,000 per second. and has to respond in 10ms or else the results of the transaction are discarded.i wrote it in php so it would be easier for my team to maintain but it would not scale beyond 4,500qps then i re-wrote it in c as an apache module and it now scales to 25,000qps per server.sometimes you just have to write stuff in c. i've been writing in c for 28 years. i write other languages as often as i can but once in a while i have to go back to c to get something done. right tool for the right job! | startups doing hardware projects which use embedded controllers: i think most 'firmware' as its called is written in c. also, a bit unrelated but 'verilog' and 'vhdl' are c-like low level hardware description languages used especially for prototyping via fpgas. |
ask hn: what startups write c heavily?
just curious. | startups doing hardware projects which use embedded controllers: i think most 'firmware' as its called is written in c. also, a bit unrelated but 'verilog' and 'vhdl' are c-like low level hardware description languages used especially for prototyping via fpgas. | i work at kiip, where we write primarily in python, erlang and c. we have built several in-house analytics systems than can handle upwards of 300k qps. we are hiring too: <link> |
ask hn: what startups write c heavily?
just curious. | i work at kiip, where we write primarily in python, erlang and c. we have built several in-house analytics systems than can handle upwards of 300k qps. we are hiring too: <link> | i too would like to know. i want to move to the bay area a.s.a.p. and am looking for startups where it is one of the primary tools. |
ask hn: what startups write c heavily?
just curious. | i too would like to know. i want to move to the bay area a.s.a.p. and am looking for startups where it is one of the primary tools. | gluster(which was a startup, now acquired by redhat, now called redhat storage) writes its glusterfs in c. they use c heavily. |
wordpress for app development
| to be a viable web app development model wordpress really needs to follow down the expressionengine -> codeigniter route. slowly evolving into a set of modular components that work together. (or how bulky symfony evolved into lightweight symfony2 + components)wordpress is still very much stuck in the old-school php world: download one big codebase, add some wordpress specific packages (themes and plugins). that's a far away from where modern php is: smaller components brought together with composer and packagist. which leads to more nimble frameworks for putting together web apps, picking and choosing the right set of components. don't like doctrine, use propel, or redbean, or eloquent.it's okay if your app fits into wordpress' constraints of the world.my concerns over the current state of wordpress as a web-app framework:* plugins are special snowflakes, and so raises a gnarly set of conflicts and issues.* themes that do a lot more than theming - like wpgeo, which is an entire location-based functionality. it's like there's a packaging construct that involves themes + set of plugins that's missing. so themes become a dumping ground for any code.* dependence on global variables (like $wpdb)* the datastore being sql is leaked through the codebase.* the visual layer drives the processing - so themes take control.* plugins are wordpress plugins, not well-built php packages.* the extension mechanism (pseudo-event-binding through global functions) makes any code "wordpress code", it's a lock-in.* the custom data storage is a joke and inconsistent. serialised php being stored in mysql field, or serialised json. wordpress is missing a mechanism to encourage structured data. i care about the quality of my data, my app needs to care too.* unit tests. wordpress' architecture makes decent unit test coverage difficult.* the quality of third-party plugin development isn't great. understandable considering the typical wordpress audience. if the plugin works, great. if there's a conflict, that can open up a pile of hurt.* essentially it's a code-coupling problem. it's difficult to disentangle. so you're mostly writing wordpress specific code, not componentised php modules.i like the admin interface, i wish that was a separate component that could be forked, and used as the basis for a web app.i can't see how wordpress can deal with these issues in a backwards compatible way. yes, they can create a modular and componentised core that can be packaged up for use outside of wordpress, but at some point there's going to have to be a shedload of adaptors to translate that clean crafted and organised code into a bunch of global variables and global functions that themes and plugins rely on.i can see good bits of wordpress (like the admin ui) being forked off into separate projects and worked on in isolation to the point they catch up with modern php development. but these won't be backwards compatible with wordpress without a grungy wordpress layer over the top.perhaps the damning thing is the lack of a consistent and appropriate data model, backed with a properly structured database. sure, i can define my own relational database, do by hand what a content management system should already be doing for me - at that point where's the benefit? what if i want to be using a nosql store instead?it's hard to justify starting with wordpress, when there are so many much better frameworks available for php that are more suited to packages and componentised code.first step, up-to-date autoloader and namespaces. | this could use a discussion of advantages vs. disadvantages of using wordpress to build apps.advantages:* can use wordpress plugins for rapid development.* can use a wordpress theme for a quick beautiful design.disadvantages:* large amount of internal overhead (which caching plugins won't solve)* plugin conflicts must be handled manually* need to maintain proper versioning when adding/removing/updating plugins.* your website is a beacon for hacker attempts because it's running wordpress.it's good to work with wordpress in a pinch, but if you can build an app using traditional tools, it's better in the long run. |
wordpress for app development
| this could use a discussion of advantages vs. disadvantages of using wordpress to build apps.advantages:* can use wordpress plugins for rapid development.* can use a wordpress theme for a quick beautiful design.disadvantages:* large amount of internal overhead (which caching plugins won't solve)* plugin conflicts must be handled manually* need to maintain proper versioning when adding/removing/updating plugins.* your website is a beacon for hacker attempts because it's running wordpress.it's good to work with wordpress in a pinch, but if you can build an app using traditional tools, it's better in the long run. | first things first. it's a great post. but just because you can doesn't mean you should.the growing pains and the transition to a "real" solution later on will be a huge pain in the.... it's literally a duct tape hack more than an actual app. the database models and security of apps built on top of wordpress are horrible most of the time.i agree that wordpress is enabling for a lot of people who bootstrap this kind of things and are not tech savvy or don't have the funds to build an application. i also know that it's scary to tackle these things when you don't know where to start. a false assumption people fall for a lot of times is that it'll be cheaper that way. it won't. if you consider starting with wordpress you should keep in mind to change the framework as quickly as possible. a good time to change it is when the idea is validated. but in reality people keep patching and patching until it collapses. |
wordpress for app development
| first things first. it's a great post. but just because you can doesn't mean you should.the growing pains and the transition to a "real" solution later on will be a huge pain in the.... it's literally a duct tape hack more than an actual app. the database models and security of apps built on top of wordpress are horrible most of the time.i agree that wordpress is enabling for a lot of people who bootstrap this kind of things and are not tech savvy or don't have the funds to build an application. i also know that it's scary to tackle these things when you don't know where to start. a false assumption people fall for a lot of times is that it'll be cheaper that way. it won't. if you consider starting with wordpress you should keep in mind to change the framework as quickly as possible. a good time to change it is when the idea is validated. but in reality people keep patching and patching until it collapses. | yes, you can really use steel wool to wipe your ass. |
wordpress for app development
| yes, you can really use steel wool to wipe your ass. | "can", but shouldn't... |
how to abuse a c++ compiler?
| it should be noted that at least some cases which previously required template meta programming can now be done in a more natural style with constexpr. a constexpr function can be evaluated at compile time, this means that its return value can be used in places that require a compile time constant.constexpr functions where quite restrictive in c++11. they could pretty much only contain a single expression and a return. c++14 significantly relaxes these restrictions.<link> meta programming is still confined to using templates though... | i think it is neck and neck whether c++ template instantiation or xslt is the ugliest unintentional functional programming language. |
how to abuse a c++ compiler?
| i think it is neck and neck whether c++ template instantiation or xslt is the ugliest unintentional functional programming language. | it's funny that in c++ this is 'abuse of the compiler' and it is awkward, in lisp this is called 'writing lisp code'. |
how to abuse a c++ compiler?
| it's funny that in c++ this is 'abuse of the compiler' and it is awkward, in lisp this is called 'writing lisp code'. | ... in order to evaluate infrec<t>::value ...
i've been spoiled lately, this is jarring to read. infiniterecursion<t>::value
c'mon, spoil me some more, text is cheap :-) |
how to abuse a c++ compiler?
| ... in order to evaluate infrec<t>::value ...
i've been spoiled lately, this is jarring to read. infiniterecursion<t>::value
c'mon, spoil me some more, text is cheap :-) | i don't understand clang's behavior in the last three examples, but then again i'm not a c++ expert. is it conforming, and is it reasonable? |
apple's tv strategy
| the problem with the tv is not the user experience, it's the content.right now, content creators have created an environment that is 10 times more complex and legally difficult to penetrate than anything the music industry did - and they're successfully defending this position against everyone, including apple.television should be an experience where i can watch exactly what i want to watch, exactly when i want to watch it. no commercial interruptions, no content i feel 'meh' about. when i know what i want to watch, i should be able to select it and watch it on my terms. this should apply to new content in the same way netflix is currently doing reruns.furthermore, when i don't know exactly what i want to watch, there should be a pandora like system that creates a channel for me that will give me something i am probably going to like.i should be able to know what my friends and people i find interesting think about what i'm watching. this should not, in any way, intrude on the watching experience, but it should never be more than glance or a remote tap away.finally, this entire experience should cost less than a cable subscription.the technology is there. i could build this experience for myself using bds, itunes, dvr, a media server, and by programming a bunch of tv apps for something like vizio, samsung, or googletv.however, without the backing of content providers, something like this will never make it mass market because they are holding all the cards until a giant, like apple, decides to take them on - and it'll be far more bloody than the battle for music. | tv programming is ripe for an ipod/itunes style disruption - netflix is doing it now with streaming - but it'll be hard to get people to buy a whole new tv.the ipod had a simple selling point - all your songs in your pocket - and it only had to displace cassette/cd walkmen that wore out in a year anyway. ditto for the iphone - internet in your pocket, but this instead of your next phone upgrade.tv is harder. what's the selling point for an apple-branded tv, and is it enough to make me buy a new tv now instead of 5-10 years when mine wears out? |
apple's tv strategy
| tv programming is ripe for an ipod/itunes style disruption - netflix is doing it now with streaming - but it'll be hard to get people to buy a whole new tv.the ipod had a simple selling point - all your songs in your pocket - and it only had to displace cassette/cd walkmen that wore out in a year anyway. ditto for the iphone - internet in your pocket, but this instead of your next phone upgrade.tv is harder. what's the selling point for an apple-branded tv, and is it enough to make me buy a new tv now instead of 5-10 years when mine wears out? | all i got from this article was that apple has enough cash on hand to enter the market if it wants to. nothing much about strategy...ipod, iphone, and ipad are all portable products that can be used in a wide variety of contexts, but a tv is only used in a single location. unless apple can come up with some revolutionary new ways to use a tv to consume media, i'd be surprised if consumers are willing to pay a premium for an apple tv product that has limited utility compared with the portable product lines. |
apple's tv strategy
| all i got from this article was that apple has enough cash on hand to enter the market if it wants to. nothing much about strategy...ipod, iphone, and ipad are all portable products that can be used in a wide variety of contexts, but a tv is only used in a single location. unless apple can come up with some revolutionary new ways to use a tv to consume media, i'd be surprised if consumers are willing to pay a premium for an apple tv product that has limited utility compared with the portable product lines. | i believe there is a tremendous potential for disruption on tv, the same way anybody can make a living selling software using internet, anybody should be able to sell their documentary, films, or tv episodes using it without too much middlemen.it is already happening, but it will take some years, bandwidth has to be cheaper and the economic models have to be tested.remember apple app store learned a lot from lindows-linspire click and run, apt-get, yum and other experiments that tested software distribution in the millions of users way before apple did. |
apple's tv strategy
| i believe there is a tremendous potential for disruption on tv, the same way anybody can make a living selling software using internet, anybody should be able to sell their documentary, films, or tv episodes using it without too much middlemen.it is already happening, but it will take some years, bandwidth has to be cheaper and the economic models have to be tested.remember apple app store learned a lot from lindows-linspire click and run, apt-get, yum and other experiments that tested software distribution in the millions of users way before apple did. | if apple tv gets its own app store, then it will be interesting to see all the channels (apps) that will result. i think that is more likely than an actual tv (unless you are willing to call a big imac a tv). i think the biggest limit on apple tv is the bandwidth caps. |
ask hn: miracle acne cure?
if you are like me, one of the many unfortunate people who suffer(ed) from acne, what has worked for you?<p>this is a big deal! its bothering me! i'm sure others would love to know as well. | the reason there is no "miracle cure" is that acne is a symptom of many different imbalances.sometimes the simplest solutions are best:
adjust your diet. reduce sugar and carbs. consider trying gluten free to see if it has an impact. rule out allergies with an elimination diet. use sea salt water on your face 2x a day. it has a natural drying effect that reduces bacterial growth. | i'd have to agree with @zdgman. the only health topics i think are relevant here are work-related or cognitive.regardless, many people on reddit have said that using a clean towel on your pillow for sleeping can make acne go away. i assume regular washing of the bed sheets might work as well. and some people find that they are actually slightly allergic to their fabric softener or detergent.personally, accutane completely changed my skin chemistry. i rarely have any acne anymore, and if i do it goes away quickly. however, my skin is often quite dry now, and the drug can also do a lot of harmful side effects. |
ask hn: miracle acne cure?
if you are like me, one of the many unfortunate people who suffer(ed) from acne, what has worked for you?<p>this is a big deal! its bothering me! i'm sure others would love to know as well. | i'd have to agree with @zdgman. the only health topics i think are relevant here are work-related or cognitive.regardless, many people on reddit have said that using a clean towel on your pillow for sleeping can make acne go away. i assume regular washing of the bed sheets might work as well. and some people find that they are actually slightly allergic to their fabric softener or detergent.personally, accutane completely changed my skin chemistry. i rarely have any acne anymore, and if i do it goes away quickly. however, my skin is often quite dry now, and the drug can also do a lot of harmful side effects. | proactiv is pretty good stuff. some important points to understand about acne:- acne is basically the result of your sebaceous glands (pores) becoming clogged. these pores secrete waxy oil onto your skin, but when they get clogged (from too much oil, or dirt), the pore fills up with bacteria. this is a whitehead. blackheads are just oil + dirt and no bacteria.- by time you get a whitehead...you're too late. most people think whiteheads are the problem. they are actually just the symptom. the whitehead has been "brewing" for a couple of days to a week.- what this means is that acne control isn't about treating your whiteheads, but being proactive (heh) about preventative treatment. clean your face with gentle soap designed for sensitive facial skin, use toner to tighten pores, apply benzyl peroxide to help prevent bacterial colonization.- at least for me, diet had a huge effect on my acne. eating crappy food and not drinking enough water almost always resulted in an outbreak of acne a week later. even in college, all-nighters and fast food would lead to some acne in a few days.- a lot of people think "acne! must scrub my face to pieces!" not true. acne can be caused by an abundance of oil...but can also be caused by dry skin. as you dry your skin out scrubbing, your face increases oil production and you get more acne.- some people have more sensitive skin than others. what works for me may not work for you. try a variety of products and routines to see what works the best. i had good luck with morning applications of benzyl peroxide, and salicylic wash at night to help cut through the day's oil. |
ask hn: miracle acne cure?
if you are like me, one of the many unfortunate people who suffer(ed) from acne, what has worked for you?<p>this is a big deal! its bothering me! i'm sure others would love to know as well. | proactiv is pretty good stuff. some important points to understand about acne:- acne is basically the result of your sebaceous glands (pores) becoming clogged. these pores secrete waxy oil onto your skin, but when they get clogged (from too much oil, or dirt), the pore fills up with bacteria. this is a whitehead. blackheads are just oil + dirt and no bacteria.- by time you get a whitehead...you're too late. most people think whiteheads are the problem. they are actually just the symptom. the whitehead has been "brewing" for a couple of days to a week.- what this means is that acne control isn't about treating your whiteheads, but being proactive (heh) about preventative treatment. clean your face with gentle soap designed for sensitive facial skin, use toner to tighten pores, apply benzyl peroxide to help prevent bacterial colonization.- at least for me, diet had a huge effect on my acne. eating crappy food and not drinking enough water almost always resulted in an outbreak of acne a week later. even in college, all-nighters and fast food would lead to some acne in a few days.- a lot of people think "acne! must scrub my face to pieces!" not true. acne can be caused by an abundance of oil...but can also be caused by dry skin. as you dry your skin out scrubbing, your face increases oil production and you get more acne.- some people have more sensitive skin than others. what works for me may not work for you. try a variety of products and routines to see what works the best. i had good luck with morning applications of benzyl peroxide, and salicylic wash at night to help cut through the day's oil. | i am not a doctor, but i am close to people who have undergone this.accutane works, but it is far more complicated for women in the us. they must sign a pledge stating they understand the risks associated with accutane treatment and pregnancy. in fact, they require women on accutane to take birth control concurrently.if you are a guy, no problems. 6 months and you are done, usually.that, and monthly blood tests as they want to make sure your liver take take it. |
ask hn: miracle acne cure?
if you are like me, one of the many unfortunate people who suffer(ed) from acne, what has worked for you?<p>this is a big deal! its bothering me! i'm sure others would love to know as well. | i am not a doctor, but i am close to people who have undergone this.accutane works, but it is far more complicated for women in the us. they must sign a pledge stating they understand the risks associated with accutane treatment and pregnancy. in fact, they require women on accutane to take birth control concurrently.if you are a guy, no problems. 6 months and you are done, usually.that, and monthly blood tests as they want to make sure your liver take take it. | not to sound rude but this is where i wished a down vote system existed. unsure if this question merits a spot on the front page. |
ask hn: ominous email from pg
so late last night i was playing around with some scripting that interacted with hn (submitted a story). i'm not a hacker in the technical sense, so i was just playing around to see what i could make. after a few runs, i got an ominous email from pg asking "what are you doing?". scary stuff.<p>has anyone else experienced this? is this an automated email when abuse is detected or did i really raise some red flags? its from pg's email address, but the sender is "0censored2". i'm pretty curious about all this since he didn't reply to my reply.<p>thanks. | yes, it was me. you submitted quite a lot of stories while you were testing whatever you were testing. it was hard not to notice. | scary stuff? if he was really that scary i'd go as pg for halloween and watch all the little future entrepreneurs wet their pants when they see me. either that, or i'd float them a couple bucks each for 6% of their candy. |
ask hn: ominous email from pg
so late last night i was playing around with some scripting that interacted with hn (submitted a story). i'm not a hacker in the technical sense, so i was just playing around to see what i could make. after a few runs, i got an ominous email from pg asking "what are you doing?". scary stuff.<p>has anyone else experienced this? is this an automated email when abuse is detected or did i really raise some red flags? its from pg's email address, but the sender is "0censored2". i'm pretty curious about all this since he didn't reply to my reply.<p>thanks. | scary stuff? if he was really that scary i'd go as pg for halloween and watch all the little future entrepreneurs wet their pants when they see me. either that, or i'd float them a couple bucks each for 6% of their candy. | "what are you doing?" is not very ominous. what were you doing, out of curiosity? |
ask hn: ominous email from pg
so late last night i was playing around with some scripting that interacted with hn (submitted a story). i'm not a hacker in the technical sense, so i was just playing around to see what i could make. after a few runs, i got an ominous email from pg asking "what are you doing?". scary stuff.<p>has anyone else experienced this? is this an automated email when abuse is detected or did i really raise some red flags? its from pg's email address, but the sender is "0censored2". i'm pretty curious about all this since he didn't reply to my reply.<p>thanks. | "what are you doing?" is not very ominous. what were you doing, out of curiosity? | if you've never had someone contact you to stop (spamming|scraping|crawling|dosing) their web service, then you're not experimenting enough.that said, once they ask you to stop, it's the decent ethical thing to simply stop :) |
ask hn: ominous email from pg
so late last night i was playing around with some scripting that interacted with hn (submitted a story). i'm not a hacker in the technical sense, so i was just playing around to see what i could make. after a few runs, i got an ominous email from pg asking "what are you doing?". scary stuff.<p>has anyone else experienced this? is this an automated email when abuse is detected or did i really raise some red flags? its from pg's email address, but the sender is "0censored2". i'm pretty curious about all this since he didn't reply to my reply.<p>thanks. | if you've never had someone contact you to stop (spamming|scraping|crawling|dosing) their web service, then you're not experimenting enough.that said, once they ask you to stop, it's the decent ethical thing to simply stop :) | on the other hand, you should definitely continue "playing around to see what i could make". that's how you become a hacker (not to be mistaken with a cracker). |
australian government will offer 1gbps this year to all nbn-connected homes
| of course, we're having an election sometime this year, and the liberal's — who are probably going to win — are planning on making the nbn slower and cheaper[1] (100mbps by utilising the existing copper network, rather than fully replacing it with fiber).1. <link> | i wish the us government would get its act together on this. the constitution includes a grant of power to congress to create a national system of post roads (article 1, section 8.7) and my understanding is that the founders included this because they recognized the importance of a public communications infrastructure rather than a privately held one [1]. considering the criticality of our communications infrastructure in an era of cyber-attacks, i find it disappointing that congress seems to have abandoned this important role to the private sector.1. <link> |
australian government will offer 1gbps this year to all nbn-connected homes
| i wish the us government would get its act together on this. the constitution includes a grant of power to congress to create a national system of post roads (article 1, section 8.7) and my understanding is that the founders included this because they recognized the importance of a public communications infrastructure rather than a privately held one [1]. considering the criticality of our communications infrastructure in an era of cyber-attacks, i find it disappointing that congress seems to have abandoned this important role to the private sector.1. <link> | the whole nbn has been a joke from the beginning. the roll-out delays for what was originally a 100mbps fibre network that is now supposedly going to offer 1gbps speeds conveniently announced right around the time quigley is about to be grilled in parliament over the delays and so close to an election it looks like labor will be losing in a landslide.while the prospect of 1gbps speeds sounds great as a developer, the very fact those speeds will only be affordable to businesses at a cost of what looks like could be close to the aud $200 per month mark initially and no doubt rise with minuscule bandwidth provided for the cost. the reason current internet offerings in australia are so expensive is because of the small number of cables that connect us to the rest of the world and monopoly of our limited selection of isp's, are they planning on laying more deep-sea cables to handle the increased load?will the high-speeds only apply to australian content like optus's fraudulent high-speed 100mbps addon pack promises for cable subscribers which only could promise close to those speeds for australian content, not content from overseas.on the outside this looks like a godsend for australia and while it undoubtedly is in some aspects as we saw with the rise of adsl in the early 2000's, the project has been poorly managed from the start and this sounds like a stunt more-so than a reality based on what we've seen so far.having said that, i would be more than happy with 100mbps speeds compared to the 20mbps connection i currently have which costs me $75 per month through optus cable. and overall the premise and vision for the nbn is still better than the archaic coalition "high-speed" network plans they have of their own. |
australian government will offer 1gbps this year to all nbn-connected homes
| the whole nbn has been a joke from the beginning. the roll-out delays for what was originally a 100mbps fibre network that is now supposedly going to offer 1gbps speeds conveniently announced right around the time quigley is about to be grilled in parliament over the delays and so close to an election it looks like labor will be losing in a landslide.while the prospect of 1gbps speeds sounds great as a developer, the very fact those speeds will only be affordable to businesses at a cost of what looks like could be close to the aud $200 per month mark initially and no doubt rise with minuscule bandwidth provided for the cost. the reason current internet offerings in australia are so expensive is because of the small number of cables that connect us to the rest of the world and monopoly of our limited selection of isp's, are they planning on laying more deep-sea cables to handle the increased load?will the high-speeds only apply to australian content like optus's fraudulent high-speed 100mbps addon pack promises for cable subscribers which only could promise close to those speeds for australian content, not content from overseas.on the outside this looks like a godsend for australia and while it undoubtedly is in some aspects as we saw with the rise of adsl in the early 2000's, the project has been poorly managed from the start and this sounds like a stunt more-so than a reality based on what we've seen so far.having said that, i would be more than happy with 100mbps speeds compared to the 20mbps connection i currently have which costs me $75 per month through optus cable. and overall the premise and vision for the nbn is still better than the archaic coalition "high-speed" network plans they have of their own. | that's kind of a tautology ... all the homes in the us connected to 1gbps fibre "this year" will also be connected to 1gbps fibre "this year". the salient missing fact is that the nbn is going to reach only a tiny tiny miniscule minority of homes "this year" (my house is not even scheduled on the plan that stretches out past 2017). |
australian government will offer 1gbps this year to all nbn-connected homes
| that's kind of a tautology ... all the homes in the us connected to 1gbps fibre "this year" will also be connected to 1gbps fibre "this year". the salient missing fact is that the nbn is going to reach only a tiny tiny miniscule minority of homes "this year" (my house is not even scheduled on the plan that stretches out past 2017). | they'll find some way to cripple it for sure, like sticking a 200gb/month cap on it. australia can't have nice things :/ |
china’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet
| what's crazy about it? i resent that headline. doing big things should be applauded. good on them.you want crazy? america binding itself hand and foot with its bullshit chicago school economic idealogy, that's crazy. it is absolute frigging nonsense and will be the ruin of the country. now watch everyone else eat its breakfast, lunch and dinner.note: this tunnel would "cost" china less than one month of the usa's "quantitative easing". for whatever "cost" means to a government that can print its own money. the hilarious thing is, the usa can't pump that money into infrastructure projects because of their stupid, stupid political aversion to a misunderstood fear of socialism! so they have to funnel everything through the banks. china doesn't give a shit, pumps money straight into infrastructure. at the end of the day, china has the infrastructure, the usa has what? some banker's bonuses and another thousand foreclosed houses. so what were you saying about "crazy"? | sigh, its sad to see the technology stuff getting side swiped in the comments by ideological rhetoric.a 76 mile tunnel, under water, is an ambitious effort. just like tunneling through a mountain in switzerland [1] was an ambitious effort.what these projects do is advance the knowledge we have of how to build tunnels (which since we don't do them all that often is very precious knowledge). the notion of having it be a covered trench tunnel like boston's big dig is interesting although at the depths they are talking about it might be interesting to make a semi-floating tube type tunnel. either way, taking on the challenge is intrinsically interesting to people who are amazed by very large infrastructure projects.[1] <link> |
china’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet
| sigh, its sad to see the technology stuff getting side swiped in the comments by ideological rhetoric.a 76 mile tunnel, under water, is an ambitious effort. just like tunneling through a mountain in switzerland [1] was an ambitious effort.what these projects do is advance the knowledge we have of how to build tunnels (which since we don't do them all that often is very precious knowledge). the notion of having it be a covered trench tunnel like boston's big dig is interesting although at the depths they are talking about it might be interesting to make a semi-floating tube type tunnel. either way, taking on the challenge is intrinsically interesting to people who are amazed by very large infrastructure projects.[1] <link> | a tunnel 76 mi long is "crazy"? is this the first chinese infrastructure project the writer has heard about?108 chinese infrastructure projects:
<link> are a couple of projects at the end that are 10x the cost of this tunnel.$200 billion (5x the cost of this project) spent in 2012 on roads:
<link> |
china’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet
| a tunnel 76 mi long is "crazy"? is this the first chinese infrastructure project the writer has heard about?108 chinese infrastructure projects:
<link> are a couple of projects at the end that are 10x the cost of this tunnel.$200 billion (5x the cost of this project) spent in 2012 on roads:
<link> | one country invests $usd 42 billion for infrastructure that will last decades, the other spends that much for a few months of an ill-defined war and spying on its own people.which one is the usa and which one is china? depends which century you're talking about i guess. |
china’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet
| one country invests $usd 42 billion for infrastructure that will last decades, the other spends that much for a few months of an ill-defined war and spying on its own people.which one is the usa and which one is china? depends which century you're talking about i guess. | we'll see if this works as well as previous infrastructure projects in china."liu zhijun, china's ex-railway minister, sentenced to death for corruption"<link>;china’s bridge collapse: infrastructure boom raises safety questions"<link>;china failed to heed rail safety warnings"<link>;grieving chinese parents protest school collapse"<link> the specific proposed project mentioned in the link kindly submitted here, other news reports<link>;china announced plans in 1994 to build the tunnel, at a cost of $10 billion, and set to be completed before 2010. but more than 20 years on, the project remains stuck in the planning stage, the website said, without elaborating." |
how food preferences vary by political ideology
| i've noticed this before, although i've always wondered how much of it was just red state/blue state. (or "lives in a major cosmopolitan city" versus "lives anywhere else", for that matter.) it would be interesting to see if there were any major differences after controlling for, e.g., geography, income, age, etc. | this is the type of article that is destroying hn, we need to stop posting/upvoting articles like this.1. it's not really interesting, or related to anything hn related.
2. it's sloppy thinking.
3. it promotes lots of meaningless speculation/arguments a la reddit.[flag it] |
how food preferences vary by political ideology
| this is the type of article that is destroying hn, we need to stop posting/upvoting articles like this.1. it's not really interesting, or related to anything hn related.
2. it's sloppy thinking.
3. it promotes lots of meaningless speculation/arguments a la reddit.[flag it] | i'm no statistician, but based on their "web poll"-style methodology, i'm not sure their results mean anything at all. they seem like they're at least one step above a cnn.com "do you like obama?" poll, because users apparently have less idea about what questions they're going to answer. hmm. |
how food preferences vary by political ideology
| i'm no statistician, but based on their "web poll"-style methodology, i'm not sure their results mean anything at all. they seem like they're at least one step above a cnn.com "do you like obama?" poll, because users apparently have less idea about what questions they're going to answer. hmm. | from the article:15% answered "conservative"54% answered "liberal"31% answered "middle of the road"perhaps "conservative" is seen as slightly derogatory by some conservatives. maybe the "middle of the road" conservatives got left out, because they see their views as mainstream.also, i would imagine that liberals are more likely to lie (or exaggerate) about preferring funky ethnic foods than conservatives. |
how food preferences vary by political ideology
| from the article:15% answered "conservative"54% answered "liberal"31% answered "middle of the road"perhaps "conservative" is seen as slightly derogatory by some conservatives. maybe the "middle of the road" conservatives got left out, because they see their views as mainstream.also, i would imagine that liberals are more likely to lie (or exaggerate) about preferring funky ethnic foods than conservatives. | i haven't read the report, though it might seem interesting if i had the time, but i would love to see more about the data between the groups. i want to see which relationship is the most causal one in food choice: political orientation, or possibly age.when i heard the food choices i imagined age/lifestyle over political leaning. older people are generally more conservative than younger people. older people might also prefer old-fashioned comfort food and wooden kitchens. |
ask hn: validate my bill collection system idea
so i have this idea based on my own pain points. basically, we all have to pay bills including utility, insurance, mortgage, car payments etc. some companies have their own online payment website where consumers create their details, bank information etc and then through ach or credit card, payments are deducted. for example, i pay my comcast bill through their website, pseg (utility) through their own website etc.
what if there is a single website which does the following:
1. business (such as utility,cable etc.) can sign-up. they get a specific domain like mybusinessname.thebillingwebsite.com
2. business can then just enter their customer information
3. the customers automatically receive a unique url where they can go and input their details including payment preference (say pay by bank or credit card). they can see the balances etc and payment history. easy to export/report etc.
3. the website collects the payment from the consumers (through stipe etc. or its own bank account?)<p>comments/criticism/ideas welcome.
4. the website then transfers the amounts to the business'es bank account on a monthly basis etc.<p>problems solved by this idea;
- small businesses do not need to build their own payment collection website. in fact, if they depend on their customers sending them checks etc, no need for that
- consumers who are paying bills can find an easy integrated platform and manage their bills in one place (if most businesses sign up for this) | interesting idea. this would definitely ease the burden on consumers once you got many of the major companies that everyone pays bills to onboard. the only problem i think you might have is something similar to what mint.com and other similar sites have had to overcome, which is getting companies and consumers to trust you with their sensitive information. you would have to offer a distinct value to the companies to get them onboard, otherwise why would they use your site instead of what they've already spent money on to get their own site up and running? if you can clarify that value proposition for them, i think it's a viable idea. | i would definitely be interested in this as a consumer, as the typical utility's payment site is painful.if you push forward on this, please include the abliity to pay my town which handles water and trash, and i think that is quite common (at least in the us). perhaps it would be best to offer small cities an easy way to get setup on your site. also, my town likes to include adverts for local upcoming events (10k runs, street fairs, etc), so maybe include the ability for cities to show this kind of info easily. |
ask hn: validate my bill collection system idea
so i have this idea based on my own pain points. basically, we all have to pay bills including utility, insurance, mortgage, car payments etc. some companies have their own online payment website where consumers create their details, bank information etc and then through ach or credit card, payments are deducted. for example, i pay my comcast bill through their website, pseg (utility) through their own website etc.
what if there is a single website which does the following:
1. business (such as utility,cable etc.) can sign-up. they get a specific domain like mybusinessname.thebillingwebsite.com
2. business can then just enter their customer information
3. the customers automatically receive a unique url where they can go and input their details including payment preference (say pay by bank or credit card). they can see the balances etc and payment history. easy to export/report etc.
3. the website collects the payment from the consumers (through stipe etc. or its own bank account?)<p>comments/criticism/ideas welcome.
4. the website then transfers the amounts to the business'es bank account on a monthly basis etc.<p>problems solved by this idea;
- small businesses do not need to build their own payment collection website. in fact, if they depend on their customers sending them checks etc, no need for that
- consumers who are paying bills can find an easy integrated platform and manage their bills in one place (if most businesses sign up for this) | i would definitely be interested in this as a consumer, as the typical utility's payment site is painful.if you push forward on this, please include the abliity to pay my town which handles water and trash, and i think that is quite common (at least in the us). perhaps it would be best to offer small cities an easy way to get setup on your site. also, my town likes to include adverts for local upcoming events (10k runs, street fairs, etc), so maybe include the ability for cities to show this kind of info easily. | great idea, and there are lots of people working on this. our startup is working on this on a larger scale, and there's a great looking french company <link> that's doing much of what you're talking about.tough as hell to get to scale, brilliant once it's scaled. |
ask hn: validate my bill collection system idea
so i have this idea based on my own pain points. basically, we all have to pay bills including utility, insurance, mortgage, car payments etc. some companies have their own online payment website where consumers create their details, bank information etc and then through ach or credit card, payments are deducted. for example, i pay my comcast bill through their website, pseg (utility) through their own website etc.
what if there is a single website which does the following:
1. business (such as utility,cable etc.) can sign-up. they get a specific domain like mybusinessname.thebillingwebsite.com
2. business can then just enter their customer information
3. the customers automatically receive a unique url where they can go and input their details including payment preference (say pay by bank or credit card). they can see the balances etc and payment history. easy to export/report etc.
3. the website collects the payment from the consumers (through stipe etc. or its own bank account?)<p>comments/criticism/ideas welcome.
4. the website then transfers the amounts to the business'es bank account on a monthly basis etc.<p>problems solved by this idea;
- small businesses do not need to build their own payment collection website. in fact, if they depend on their customers sending them checks etc, no need for that
- consumers who are paying bills can find an easy integrated platform and manage their bills in one place (if most businesses sign up for this) | great idea, and there are lots of people working on this. our startup is working on this on a larger scale, and there's a great looking french company <link> that's doing much of what you're talking about.tough as hell to get to scale, brilliant once it's scaled. | i'm making my version of this now and hopefully launching soon to some feedback, feel free to email me questions thoughts etc.check it out here: <link> |
ask hn: validate my bill collection system idea
so i have this idea based on my own pain points. basically, we all have to pay bills including utility, insurance, mortgage, car payments etc. some companies have their own online payment website where consumers create their details, bank information etc and then through ach or credit card, payments are deducted. for example, i pay my comcast bill through their website, pseg (utility) through their own website etc.
what if there is a single website which does the following:
1. business (such as utility,cable etc.) can sign-up. they get a specific domain like mybusinessname.thebillingwebsite.com
2. business can then just enter their customer information
3. the customers automatically receive a unique url where they can go and input their details including payment preference (say pay by bank or credit card). they can see the balances etc and payment history. easy to export/report etc.
3. the website collects the payment from the consumers (through stipe etc. or its own bank account?)<p>comments/criticism/ideas welcome.
4. the website then transfers the amounts to the business'es bank account on a monthly basis etc.<p>problems solved by this idea;
- small businesses do not need to build their own payment collection website. in fact, if they depend on their customers sending them checks etc, no need for that
- consumers who are paying bills can find an easy integrated platform and manage their bills in one place (if most businesses sign up for this) | i'm making my version of this now and hopefully launching soon to some feedback, feel free to email me questions thoughts etc.check it out here: <link> | in the uk the banks have instituted direct debit, where the gas company gets me to agree electronically and then they submit a request to my bank monthly for a variable amount -it works smoothly and pretty much every business uses it for recurring charges. it's ubiquitous. no idea why the us banks have never done it. you might want to look at why. |
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