Life Recorders May Be This Century's Wrist Watch - <AUTHOR> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/06/life-recorders-may-be-this-centurys-wrist-watch/ <comment><USER2> I wonder what the legal implications of wearing a wire all the time are? 'cause it would actually help me out quite a bit, at least if there was a way for me to easily add tags (or otherwise make it search able)

<comment><USER3> As long as the data remains yours and you're its handler, why would there be any intrinsic legal implication to wearing that kind of stuff? It'd be no different than carrying an always on camcorder.

Though I think that box is ugly and impractical, I'll wait for artificial eyes or systems tapping the optic nerve.

<comment><USER4> _why would there be any intrinsic legal implication to wearing that kind of stuff?_

For one, in many states it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of all parties. (In most states it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of at least one party to it.)

You'd literally bump into people at the supermarket and say "My, what a beautiful child you have and BY THE WAY I'm wearing a discrete wire please don't talk unless you want it recorded."

<comment><USER5> There may well be copyright implications too.

You might be recording images & audio without the rights to do so.

<comment><USER6> Just another example of how pathetic the current views on copyright are.

I wonder if you could prosecute a person with photographic memory for the very same thing: "recording" images and audio without the rights to do it.

<comment><USER5> It's not such a crazy question. If the person reproduced the work, certainly.

However, there is also part of copyright that involves "fixing" a work in a medium so that it can be reproduced. With the rather vague caveat of unless it's for "transitory duration".

There is even debate on if a RAM buffer constitutes infringement. If I recall some lectures on this Sony ran into this problem when they started offering RAM buffering on their CD Discman devices (although the issue goes right back).

However, this recently got challenged with a series of decisions that went the other way - RAM buffers were fine - These decisions had more of a focus on the "economic value" that can be derived from a copy... It also accepted the fact that the practice is widespread and essential in most electronic devices.

So in light of the later trend... You're probably ok.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Y'all should check out the movie The Final Cut ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(2004_film)> <http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2978742553/> ). Not only is this one of the best Robin Williams movies I've seen, but it is also one of the best sci-fi films I've seen in a while.

<comment><USER8> Strange Days is another variation of the theme: <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/>

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Rather than just collecting data as a reference, I really like the idea of analysing what I've been doing (often wasting time!) and taking the chance to live my life better in future.

<comment><USER10> As long as you don't always record yourself analysing the recordings of what you've been doing - otherwise you're going to have some interested video feedback :)

Also, think of all the time you will waste analysing that you have indeed wasted time. It will mean you just end up wasting even more time ;)

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> My collaborator Ted Nelson (of Xanadu fame) has been carrying a camcorder to record (on hundreds of tapes) just about every conversation with people he's met, for about 30 years. Pretty ahead of his time, I guess. I'm on some of his tapes too, which is nice.

<comment><USER12> Isn't that what Andy Warhol used to do?

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Have any of you read David Brin's "Transparent Society" [http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Society-Technology- Between...](http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Society-Technology-Between- Privacy/dp/0738201448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252345687&sr=8-1) He makes the argument that universal monitoring is going to happen, almost certainly, and the only real alternatives is who gets to watch, just the gov't, or will we get to keep an eye on the gov't too?

</comment><comment><USER14> In the long run this will be revolutionary for society. The benefits of being able to observe videos of ones self in sport are well recognised and they should carry over to ordinary life as well. 'Know thyself' could finally be possible (as long as you have the time to watch the 'logs').

For society it should bring in huge reductions in crime as well as many types of deceptive behaviour. Combined with reputation management people would have a bigger incentive to do good.

Society will probably need to adjust to a few 'minority' behaviours somewhat analogous to homosexuality. Those who had recognisably harmful conditions would be able to identify them and have access to help.

I'm sure there will also be some problems, but they will be dwarfed by the benefits. Data is power.

</comment><comment><USER15> This sounds like about the worst idea I've ever heard of. Big brother's ultimate fantasy.

<comment><USER16> as if the intrusions in life and privacy aren't enough already.

just reads like the novel 'The prometheus deception'. The worst part of this post is that Arrington makes it sound as if it is a great idea, and very much needed.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> I voted yes. I'd definitely get one of these if it was affordable and discreet (or otherwise fashionable).

I'd even consider broadcasting everything live most of the time.. but not 100% of the time.

I think the realism of this device depends on the stage of your life and work, too. For example, within the context of a start-up, I'd definitely not want the photo of every person I meet broadcast to the world. However, within the context of blogging and being an online personna, if that was my full-time job (and who knows, it may get to that later on), this device would be great.

</comment><comment><USER18> I thint this thing would be very useful even if not connected to web. If it could write everything to disk, not to web. Of course - volume of its memory will have to be enormous.

Also - it has to encrypt data with private key, and public key will be safe in home, so nobody can see your whole life when you will lost this thing, or sbd will steal it.

About crime prevention etc - there should be button that starts sending all data to police without encrypting it in real time.

I would buy one.

</comment><comment><USER19> It will lead to a whole new level of celebrity culture. If you're interested in someone's life, then you can watch it live! Either that or it will kill all interest as people realise how mundane other people's lives are.

Also, has anyone read Halting State by Charles Stross? In that book life recorders are commonly used by, for example, the local police force in their day-to-day investigations.

</comment><comment><USER20> Crowdsourcing meets 1984...

<comment><USER4> I read a good sci-fi book recently about the possibilities for a device like this. (It was the one about orcs raiding an MMORPG bank in Scotland and causing a financial panic. I don't remember the title but if you Google it you should probably find it fairly quickly.)

They didn't tag the people -- they tagged the cops. I'd be 150% in favor of that -- the camera preserves all the evidence impartially, regardless of whether it shows the cop in the right or in the wrong, and the minority of bad apples would probably clean up their act a bit if they knew they were being watched by something they could not intimidate or cajole into silence. Plus as a public servant, while they are on the clock, cops have zero expectation of privacy.

If I had my druthers I'd give them to everyone with a badge and make their use compulsory 100% of the time when in uniform, with a 5 minute time-out button for bathroom breaks which, if you punch in the middle of a traffic stop, means you lose your badge.

See the book for how it would revolutionize policing. The cops could use simple voice commands to produce authenticated timestamps for, e.g, arrests and collecting evidence. It would greatly simplify arrest reports and the like. It would make a HUGE portion of criminal cases even more open and shut than they already are -- "Look, we've got you on video swinging your fist at a cop. Please guilty to the possession charge and resisting arrest, or you'll be convicted of assault."

<comment><USER21> 'halting state'.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> It is really fascinating to see the oppositional reactions to this idea. It seems like either people love it or they are really scared (like me) and cannot understand why other people would like it. This is also reflected in the poll results on TC (so far).

<comment><USER22> There's another point of view, which is found e.g. in David Brin's "The transparent society": privacy is inevitably going to be more or less a thing of the past pretty soon, so the challenge is to find a way to make that not end up benefiting the people with power and completely screwing the people without. Brin thinks it can be done...

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> I can see a device like this embedded in the line just above the windshield in cars. Instant black box, accident investigations would become a lot easier.

Not sure if I'd like the privacy issues resulting from that though.

</comment><comment><USER23> I've lost count of the times my wife has said: "I never said that..." And I thought, "Damn, I wish I had recorded that conversation... if only there was a device..."

</comment><comment><USER24> full on information over load, i can hardly keep up with the digital photos between my laptop, desktop and iphone.

</comment><comment><USER25> i want this now, I've been trying to monitor what I'm doing using a mashup of rescue time, saving tweets, but an auto camera and audio recorder? perfect.

Speaking of, has anyone ever filmed themselves to see how they interact in social situations?

<comment><USER26> > Speaking of, has anyone ever filmed themselves to see how they interact in > social situations?

Not directly, but enough to know that Me + Spice Girls + Bourbon != Positive Social Interaction

</comment></comment><comment><USER27> I don't want my ancestors knowing about some of the things i lookup on the internet just for giggles... or seeing how many times i turn the device off while sitting at the computer.

<comment><USER13> I don't have to worry about that, my ancestors are all dead; or did you mean descendents?

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> Consider changes for crime and evidence sitauation. Especially against drunk people and in countries (like my native Sweden) where the police force isn't functional.

Consider generation two, when loggers have monitoring of e.g. blood pressure and pulse -- and automatic notification of ambulances.

I want one, too. (No, I don't drink much!)

</comment><comment> onreact-com "Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long"

Your own personal NSA.</comment>


The AIG - Lehman - Merrill Lynch Link  - <AUTHOR> http://blogmaverick.com/2008/09/16/the-aig-lehman-merrill-lynch-link/

<comment><AUTHOR> Money quote: _One last point, has the irony of 3 of largest companies in the country who make their money giving financial and insurance advice to companies and individuals, are facing ruin from the advice they gave themselves ? If this isnt a lesson to every individual who is taking advice from an investment firm, i dont know what is._</comment>


Choosing intuitive axes - <AUTHOR> http://unside.t4you.in/data/intuitive-axes/

<comment><USER2> I find this an interesting perspective because I prefer reading linear graphs. Show me a linear graph and explain the axes and I'll easily see what kind of distribution it is. Show me something that grows non-linearly and I would have no idea if it's exponential or polynomial or what.

> We all know how much a thousand dollars is (as opposed to an income > centile), and how hard it is to get a $1000 raise as opposed to how hard it > is to get one that will push us up by one percentile.

The point here is that wealth is not linear. Getting a $1000 raise depends entirely on what you're earning. What you're earning depends on where you live and so on. With linear axes I can easily compare the numbers around my own context, but it doesn't help me extrapolate beyond that. No matter how you choose your axes will fix this.

Ultimately there's no _right_ answer to how to choose a scale. Different scales will show different patterns. The log-scale is useful here because it also represents the distribution of the wealth (to some extent). A log-scale will basically stretch out the data points at the lower values, giving more space to present the data for those who earn less. And there are more people who earn less!

I do wish they presented the dollar-amount for the log-scale though.

EDIT: Wait, the income-rank is actually a percentile of how much people earn? That's perfect! Then I can look at Rank=50 and know that 50% of the population is represented by the left side of the chart. That's actually very useful.

</comment><comment><USER3> It's so great you made that article. This way we can still learn something although having that data confusion in the morning.</comment>


3D-printed noise cancelling structures - <AUTHOR> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190307103109.htm <comment><USER2> I wonder how often this would need to be physically replaced/maintained. And for that matter what size is required - would this work for unpowered earplugs / would it be better than conventional foam earplugs?</comment>


How I rank better using microsites - <AUTHOR> http://www.abtain.com/articles/exact-match-domains-for-easier-search-engine-ranking

<comment><USER2> I really don't understand how this helps you.

The one page site doesn't really contain useful information, so anyone google- ing "dallas classifieds" that does click the link will bounce pretty immediately.

Do you have any statistics on the number of people that click through the links on your site? Like how many page views has it gotten vs. how many people have clicked on outbound links.

At the same time, "dallasclassifieds.org" has a page rank of 0, so linking it up to your primary site will not really improve the page rank of that site if I understand the basic idea of pagerank correctly.

The only real potential benefit that it can possibly create is that you _might_ get some revenue if you throw some google ads up on the site. As it is right now, you are essentially taking a spot away from a potentially more useful service showing up on the main page.

<comment><AUTHOR> I don't have those stats right now, but I'll get them soon. Will be testing Adsense after the next deployment. What is surprising is that you have to make sure you block your Google Ads from your own sites, no reason to pay Google for that.

Primary goal is to actually build out each of these to make them more useful to visitors.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> I get that you can use a microsite to rank well for a specific keyword like "dallas classifieds" but how you pass this through to another site you want this term to rank for?

For example if I want classifieds.com to rank well for "dallas classifieds" how do I use that microsite to improve my ranking on classifieds.com for that term?

<comment><AUTHOR> My site is <http://dallas.abtain.com/> , you'll see that I link to my site in the list of "dallas classifieds" sites.

You can also move the traffic to your own site by making the microsite a related/useful service. One example would be a mortgage company making a mortgage calculator site. The calculator site then links people back to the mortgage application site.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Ranking #11 with an exact match domain is not doing well by any means. Spot 11 gets maybe 1% of the total clicks coming from that search term. Exact Match domains are very easy to rank with minimal link building and quality on site content.

And to people wondering how a microsite like this can help your main project site, it's because its a hell of a lot easier to rank an exact match domain for a keyword than it is a page of your own site. So you can rank these exact matches and then use them essentially as an info proxy site, where visitors can then click through to your real money site. It's a great strategy really if you want to increase your organic traffic.</comment>


Presentation Hacks: Less Words, More Power - <AUTHOR> http://blog.rafaelcorrales.com/2010/04/presentation-hacks-less-words-more.html

<comment><USER2> Fewer words.

<comment><AUTHOR> awesome

<comment><USER2> I'm not usually a grammar Nazi, _honest_! :-) I try to limit it only to where it detracts from otherwise good content, as in this case.

<comment><AUTHOR> I just thought it was awesome because it could mean multiple things. My buddy and I were over here and read it and then we realized, "ah, he means to change the title. not to shorten it! ;)"

<comment><USER2> Haha, true! Actually, I thought your post was pretty good in that department already, compared with most stuff that gets submitted here as advice, anyway :-)</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Best language for real-time messaging?  - <AUTHOR>

what is the best backend language for a web app that does real-time message/instant messaging? In terms of scaling and performance? <comment><USER2> If scaling is an important consideration from the start, erlang would be a good choice. I think whatsapp runs on an erlang and c++ backend.

</comment><comment><USER3> I'm not an expert, but I think these work better if you prefix the title with 'Ask HN: '.

</comment><comment><USER4> Not directly related to your question, but I recently wrote something which might be applicable here:

It depends: <http://kishorelive.com/2011/11/16/it-depends/>

</comment><comment> mansoor-s I'd go with Nodejs/JavaScript</comment>


Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes - <AUTHOR> https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913426448/congressional-inquiry-faults-boeing-and-faa-failures-for-deadly-737-max-plane-cr <comment><USER2> >> the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing's engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of Boeing's management, and grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA.

That is being very kind to Boeing management. Its blaming the engineers and the FAA but the management was just not transparent? Boeing fought hard for their autonomy and ability to self certify, so I guess the FAA failed by allowing that. But that doesnt exempt the management at Boeing who was supposed to create an organisation with processes in place to design and build safe airplanes. They had such an organisation but failed to maintain it as such. That's more than a lack of transparency.

<comment><USER3> This.

Also, I'm astonished that Boeing continues to talk about when it'll deliver the 737 Max when _no-one will ever willingly fly in one of those planes_.

Even their own staff have said in writing that they wouldn't let their families fly in one of those planes.

Boeing's utter lack of awareness of the gravity of the situation continues to amaze as much as the absurdity of this statement.

<comment><USER4> No one? There are a lot of people who fly but don't follow the news and have missed all of this. And then others who will forget/not check every time they fly.

<comment> sjm-lbm I fly, follow the news, and assume I'll probably fly one one at some point because there's not enough alternative options. It's not what I want, but if they have a fix proven out by a lot of successful flight time and a MAX flight has the arrival time I need.. why not?

Part of the reason Boeing is going to survive is the pure fact that Airbus can't make enough airplanes to cover the market.

<comment><USER5> China and Airbus together probably can.

China already has a 737 MAX competitor - the COMAC C919.

People have been a bit wary of Chinese safety but Boeing kind of gifted them the benefit of the doubt on that front.

<comment><USER6> COMAC is nowhere near ready and will have to prove itself in the domestic market before international rollout. That said Chinese aviation safety is among the best after a very rough start, but the real issue is airplane sales involve geopolitics, and geopolitics is not looking favourable by the time COMAC is ready.

>gifted them the benefit of the doubt on that front

I haven't seen anyone discuss this, but China was responsible for (justifiably) grounding the MAX around the world and crippling Boeing short term. CAAC was the first to ground Chinese MAX fleet after Ethiopian crash, which inspired everyone else to despite FAA insisting MAX airworthiness. I'm sure US is going to remember that when COMAC is open for deliveries, not that the US will ever buy, but the smearing is going to be rough.

<comment><USER5> US won't ever buy COMAC. It's much too protectionist. Other countries will.

I expect Ethiopia will be happy to buy COMAC. As will most other countries in the world that witnessed this shitshow.

The plane is pretty much ready. It'll start flying in 2021.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> sigh.

> Republicans on the committee did not endorse the investigative report. [..] > criticized Democrats for an investigation that "began by concluding that our > system was broken and worked backwards from there."

So, do many republicans hold the view that killing 346 people in the first year of service is acceptable business practice?

<comment><USER8> > do many republicans hold the view that killing 346 people in the first year > of service is acceptable business practice?

First you very carefully selected what to quote. You cut out this part:

> A statement from ranking member Sam Graves of Missouri says, "if aviation > and safety experts determine that areas in the FAA's processes for > certifying aircraft and equipment can be improved, then Congress will act."

Which makes it clear they mostly disagree about what the investigation results say about FAA, not Boeing business.

Then you suggest the republicans not being ok with the investigation findings means they are ok with killing people. They do not agree with WHY and HOW these people got killed, obviously not disagree that this should have not happened.

How you can misrepresent the other side so badly and still be so self righteous is beyond me.

<comment><USER7> I did not try to misrepresent anything. That first quote I left out because it was standard politician's doublespeak, i.e. not admitting anything nor committing to anything.

Yes, my comment was a gut reaction. That reaction was purely based on the gall of calling into question _whether the system is broken at all_. To formalize my thought process:

1\. $system exists to certify machines in $domain (premise)

2\. 346 people die in two related $domain failures (premise)

3\. $politician rejects the notion that $system is broken (premise)

4\. a well-functioning system is apparently allowed to result in 346 deaths (conclusion)

<comment><USER9> Perhaps you're just used to dealing with an industry that has little physical risks where the thought of people dying in a normal functioning system seems hard to believe?

Hundreds to thousands of people die everyday in vehicles and the NTSB doesn't even open investigations. It's regarded as a well-functioning system. Are Democrats fine with thousands of deaths every year?

<comment><USER10> >> Hundreds to thousands of people die everyday in vehicles

But not due to systemic issues like the Toyota unintended accelerations.

Deaths arising from systemic issues in automotive manufacture or poor road design are relatively rare in comparison to driver-induced deaths due to e.g. impairment by alcohol.

>> and the NTSB doesn't even open investigations

It does for (systemic issues - the issues in question this whole conversation)

<comment><USER11> But a lot of the causes of car accidents ARE systemic!

"driving while 80 years old"

"driving while on 4 hours of sleep in the past 72"

"driving with the brake warning light on"

I'd count all of the above as "systemic", and bet that they cause a multitude of deaths. We just don't want to accept the societal and monetary cost to eliminate them. Others, like "driving while intoxicated", we penalize but still do not take more than superficial steps to combat. (Superficial from the perspective of aviation, at least)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Are there any experts here who have read the report? If so I have two questions.

1) How qualified are the congressional investigators to evaluate technical decisions in the MCAS design?

2)Second point: Notably, the article is quite vague about the actual mistakes that where made. Is there any specific bad decisions it notes that would be errors without the benefit of hindsight?

<comment><USER13> I read the FAA's final report, and to be frank, I feel like many punches were pulled. There were mountains of evidence of a dysfunctional culture and cavalier attitude toward regulation at Boeing.

Despite the punch pulling, there were also admissions that the plane (without the MCAS flight law) would not have passed certification requirements for carrying passengers, cementing a solid motive for regulatory obstruction and perception management.

Mary a mention or touching on any of that in the report. It went to great lengths to show that the "process worked as followed" yet never addressed the issue that said process led to 346 deaths.

It's frustrating, because I left the report with the feeling the conclusion was "Process is fine, people just need to follow it better" when the entire point of having a process is to take into account human capacity to err and designing it out.

I think Representatives are basically applying their plank to the report. Which is bloody stupid, because they need to be reading between the lines and focusing on the problem, not whether their party leaders approve of their approach or output.

<comment><USER14> Nary?

<comment><USER13> Yes >_>.

Apparently the ML behind autocorrect or my fat fingers betray me once again after not checking back for 2 hours.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Who would have thought that after decades of privatization and corporate lobbying, the FAA would no longer be functional enough to prevent this kind of disaster?

This same story is repeating throughout all the American regulatory bodies and it is only going to get worse.

<comment><USER16> This is a case of privatisation of profits. The company for all intents and purposes is a state run company through regulations. Corruption and greed enabled to side step these

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> Great. Now what we do to keep it from happening again? How do we reduce corporatocracy and regulatory capture?

<comment><USER18> If the US system is even slightly functional, the FAA will get beefed up and we'll be fine for a decade or two.

Then people will again start saying "we've had no accidents for years, therefore flying is really safe, so why all this burdensome regulation?". Regulation will get scaled back, something like the 737 MAX will happen again, the FAA will get beefed up, and so on, ad infinitum.

It's this sort of regulatory boom and bust that makes me feel humans shouldn't be allowed to do anything that's dangerous on a really large scale (such as nuclear power).

<comment><USER19> Nuclear power is not that dangerous on a large scale compared to coal power. Or burning any fossil fuel for that matter.

<comment><USER20> So far, no. But a single nuclear power plant has the potential for continent- wide devastation. Is the same true of the world's largest coal power plants (~6.7 GW)?

<comment><USER19> > But a single nuclear power plant has the potential for continent-wide > devastation.

This is not true.

The space destroyed to make way for coal strip-mining in Germany alone, is larger than Tchernobyl exclusion zone.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> I hope prison time for the execs.

But probably will not happen.

<comment><USER22> Remember Equifax? We don't talk about that.

</comment></comment><comment> tuna-piano I understand there were problems at Boeing and the FAA that lead to the unexpected first crash. I'm honestly not that bothered that a plane crashed (besides the general sadness of any loss of life tragedies). Sometimes bad things happen... these are complex machines and regulatory systems. The process seems to be working and problems are being addressed. Plane crashes are super, super rare.

What I don't understand, and does bother me, is why the plane continued to fly after the first crash and even, inexcusably, for days after the second crash! That seems to me a bigger indictment of Boeing's and the FAA's reluctance to put safety over money.

</comment><comment><USER23> "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them" \--Einstein

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_\(film\))

</comment><comment><USER24> I think any engineer who won't refuse to work on dangerous projects and not take precautions is as guilty as the manager pushing for any unsafe changes. You have to step up and let them know you'll leave if they don't change. Talk to their managers if you don't have to. Save your emails too. Don't be party to stuff like this, a big spot of blood will be on your shirt at the end of the day if someone (or multiple someones) dies as a result. No one can forsee everything but if you do and you don't do anything about it you are as guilty as anyone down the chain of "unfortunate situations" that allowed it to happen.

</comment><comment><USER16> Surely it was engineers decision to do short cuts. This is just appalling. All managers should be in prison.

</comment><comment><USER25> As with so many "root cause" investigations, there are deeper issues the more you dig. And these issues turn out to be both a gradual evolution of circumstances that changed Boeings, Congress's, and our collective responsibility for the matter when you peel back the layers.

It turns out (in my view) that this is just the inevitable result of a slow abandonment of the role that the military, federal government, and the US people elected to play in the development of civil aviation in the last century.

Maybe many have forgotten, but our civil aviation legacy largely came from R&D and production of aircraft during WW2 and later. Boeing, McDonnell, Grumman, Northrop, these were all companies that formed from that legacy. But what they produced besides planes was a government infrastructure that was expert in procuring, regulating, and evaluating the performance of not just aircraft but also companies.

And it also produced aircraft companies that worked closely with government -- but most importantly, with their concerns in mind. They were partly the customer!

Over 50 years, the pressures of public debt, cost of employees, efficiency, etc. meant that that expertise in the regulatory bodies gradually began to be hollowed out. Experts in government found themselves too bothered by the heavier and heavier constraints of government, and lured by the higher salaries of the private sector. The leaders of a new field were replaced by mere maintainers of it. We all know what happens as that changes, I think.

Government gradually also became less of a "customer" in the design and production of planes. And the airplane companies themselves became more profit-need-driven. They are basically like the auto manufacturers with huge workforces that need their insurance and IAM wages paid.

So what do you get in a situation like this? The inevitable:

Aircraft manufacturers that start to optimize their designs and production for low cost and "simple" variations on old designs (don't want to invest in from- scratch new planes). Regulators who don't know how to evaluate properly new designs, and anyway whose responsibilities are basically staffed for and by the airline because few people want to be regulators. And a public that incentivizes this all because we have other debts to pay and don't want to cough up the $ in ticket prices or taxes.

Until a plane crashes.

Anyway, that's my take. So if they were honest, Congress would point the mirror at themselves too, in this exercise.

</comment><comment><USER23> Proper Whistle blower program would have prevented these failures

</comment><comment><USER26> Despite the fetishization of "real engineering" and "standards", once again we come down to the bare truth: software engineers are the only ones with true ethical standards. Easily measured by numbers of people killed. In fact, web front-end engineers are far more ethical than any others. If you work at Slack you are a better engineer than Boeing aeronautics. Never forget this.

<comment><USER27> This is totally nonsense. You think drones have no software in them?

<comment><USER26> Well, drones don't have any Slack instances running on them. If you want to exclude all defence contractor software-engineers from the list of software- engineers that's fine. I am comfortable with that. Though I suppose when your job is killing people, killing people is a sign of competence. I think Boeing wasn't trying to kill people with the 737 Max, but I'm no expert on corporate psychology.

The important thing to remember is that true engineering is building Electron and React apps not whatever nonsense all these guys who go around constantly accidentally killing people do. Aeronautics, such a poor field with poor standards. Any guy using React+Redux is a superior engineer. After all, he won't be killing anyone by accident.

<comment><USER27> I know you're trolling, but even your troll argument is flawed. WayFair sold furniture (ahem, cages) to ICE. Facebook monetizes murderers with ads. People suck. Engineers in general are trying to make a better world. Sure "better" might mean "my missile is better than my enemy's missile". Or "my ads are more engaging than my competitor". But engineers are building things. Through and through, engineers build. Not too many professions can honestly say they create.

<comment><USER26> Oh sure, you're going on the Evil/Good angle. That's fine. But let's set it aside for the moment because I will probably just agree with you on whichever stance you take, since I don't particularly care. I guess I did confuse the matter by using the words 'ethics' but I meant "not presenting your ability as far beyond what it is" so perhaps I can clarify and we can move on from that.

I'm going on the competent/incompetent angle which is orthogonal. The problem is that those guys just aren't good engineers. If they _want_ to kill people and they're doing it, or they _want_ to sell to ICE and they're doing it, or they _want_ to monetize murders and they're doing it, then they're good at it. That's competence.

Aeronautics engineers, though. They want to make things fly and they fall instead. I don't think they've wanted to kill Boeing passengers, but you know, considering their skill, perhaps they did, perhaps they did. In which case, you're right, that's a field of highly competent passenger killers who we thought were incompetent passenger fliers!

Web developers writing React on the other hand? Zero people intended to be killed. Zero people killed. Billions of dollars of value. Creativity. Ability. Competence. The virtues of a _real_ engineer. Perhaps one day other fields can emulate their techniques to understand how they do it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> I still don't understand how you guys managed to build a country where a major defense contractor and a government agency can be found guilty. There's just too many reasons for this to fail to all the different level of corruption; I look at this marvelling at how the hell does it still work.

If you don't see it as an incredible achievement and don't feel proud of it, you don't have any perspective on what's the other parts of the world are like, and were like for the most part of history. Don't take things like this for granted.

<comment><USER29> They're not found guilty, government officials have "found that mistakes were made and the culture is rotten". The first brings legal punishments, the second can be waved away and swept under the rug with promises like "we'll do better next time". Maybe a few pawns will be fired to appease the public.

<comment><USER28> That's still quite incredible.</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: How to handle staging environments? - <AUTHOR> I'm a full-time Wordpress developer and I'm constantly working with staging environments in order to present progress to clients and conduct testing. Creating a new staging environment is of course simple whilst working with PHP: create a new subfolder on web host, connect to host-provided database and you're done. (yes, the simple process does come with some drawbacks, no git etc.)
In my off-time I've been trying other kinds of web development, Ruby on Rails and the like. Development environments are easy to set up but staging has proven more difficult. Using my own VPS is affordable but takes quite a bit of work even for something simple, and using a PaaS such as Heroku quickly becomes way to expensive for a side project.
Any suggestions on how to handle staging? What does your staging workflow look like? <comment><USER2> you can use an instance that has docker on it, then setup docker compose files with wordpress, git , apache and setup a port. then on the machine setup virtualhost to point to the entry tcp port of the docker instance. then all you have to do is build the docker instances . You can mantaint all that with git and handle all of your deployments that way.

<comment><AUTHOR> I've looked into Docker and I definitely like the isolation and simplicity it provides. The one thing keeping me away has been networking and file persistence, but I haven't really put in the effort necessary to wrap my head around it.

Is there a simpler, more automated way to handle the networking when publishing a new containerized app?

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> I would highly recommend using Elastic Beanstalk on AWS. I use the python platform most of the time, but PHP is available as well. If you're a new user, you can get a year on a t2.micro for free, and even if you have to pay that usually works out to about thirty-ish dollars a month which is probably tenable.

<comment><AUTHOR> Elastic Beanstalk seems to be a really convenient service. I tried it with the free tiers for a random side project a while back. Unfortunately I accidentally ran two applications which placed me outside of the free tier. Didn't notice until about a month later when the cost had added up. Quite disappointed by the confusing interface and complex billing, which I hope they'll improve.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Why not use Heroku for this? If it's a staging environment only for demos I can't see how you'd burn through much of your monthly free hours. Heroku makes setting up staging environment very easy.

</comment><comment><USER5> forge.laravel.com

Even if you're not using Laravel(PHP) it works for quickly spinning up a vps on digital ocean or AWS.

You can setup multiple dev/test sites on one droplet.

Deploy repo via github bitbucket.

It's super fast and easy.

We setup live site on it's own droplet then have another staging droplet. Develop locally with valet/homestead (laravel.com), deploy to staging using forge, deploy to production using forge.

Forge has quick deploy which deploys when you push to your repo.

There is also [https://envoyer.io/](https://envoyer.io/) for zero downtime deployment.

</comment><comment><USER6> When resources are tight, I'm a big fan of having a bare metal server + lxc + ansible.

I've also recently began looking into docker, but the update image dance seems like more work to me than the above.</comment>


Bulma – The Most Underrated Framework of the CSS Framework Era - <AUTHOR> Everyone was using a CSS Framework to simplify their work and save their time, Bootstrap was and is King Right Now of the Frameworks Market. Every Institute, Almost Every Tutorial on YouTube was using Bootstrap, Developers were not learning Fundamentals of CSS and using Bootstrap. I was also a beginner at that time, I learned HTML and CSS from W3schools and Lynda. Then I used a lot of floats to make web pages, and kinda like the way.
Responsive Design was my next goal, so CSS Framework was the Easiest way for Responsiveness, I tried to read docs and watched Bootstrap Videos but Bootstrap terrified me with lots of classes and inconvenient naming, and I didn't like to use bootstrap cause I think every website using Bootstrap looks quite similar it also applies styles on element as defaults, I tried two or more times but didn't get Bootstrap in my mind, so I found some alternatives like Foundation and Material, but they were just like Bootstrap. I just wanted to make my site Responsive, and then I found the video of Brad Traversy Skeleton CSS
I loved Skeleton CSS but now their devs are not updating it, its not based on CSS grid or Flexbox. There were some confusions in it, and Then I found Bulma , I was just using YouTube as usual and then I came to Bulma.css Tutorial Video tagged "The Easiest Framework You can learn in 20 minutes", Hmm I watched it and it really changed my life, It was really the easiest framework, even you don't have to remember the classes and there are some of the advantages :
No default Styling Powerful Flexbox Grid Small Size in Kbs Reusable and You can modify Sass No Javascript only CSS Reusable Components I am Kinda Obsessed with Bulma(I think) But You can give it a try. This is my First Post BTW, English is not my first language, sorry for grammar mistakes, You can follow me on Twitter  https://www.twitter.com/justaashir <comment><AUTHOR> This article was first posted on [https://dev.to/justaashir/bulma-the-most- underrated-framewor...](https://dev.to/justaashir/bulma-the-most-underrated- framework-of-the-css-framework-era-2gj8)

</comment><comment><USER2> Bulma is great. It just works! I've been using it for about three years :-)

<comment><AUTHOR> Yup I love it too, it's my daily driver but I just read this article and this guy really changed my mind : [https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and- separation-of-...](https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation- of-concerns/)</comment></comment>


Show HN: A chrome extension for news junkies - <AUTHOR>

Hi!
The extension builds a new tab page based on your most-visited sites, scraping them and displaying headlines. Right now I've only built about 100 sites into the extension so YMMV.
I'm a pretty green developer, and am basically self-taught, so I'm very eager for any feedback!
Here's the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amnefikbcildekiablkaodflbkoaobnh
Thanks for checking it out! <comment><USER2> Hi seizethecheese, i have liked your design, quite neat.. and definitely useful.

i will add this product on our site :)</comment>


A new kind of map: it's about time - <AUTHOR> https://blog.mapbox.com/a-new-kind-of-map-its-about-time-7bd9f7916f7f <comment><USER2> I think this is great, but I can see it being potentially improved further if there was a temporary overlay of the physical map whenever you hover over a destination.

Basically, I feel that completely removing the physical map is okay until you've picked a target. Then, having to click on it to be able to see what the route looks like (which streets to take, etc.) is higher friction than I'd like. Instead, imagine if hovering would give you a route overlay, and as you hover your mouse over multiple places you're considering, you're already aware of the physical directions as well.

Having to click back and forth feels quite constraining.

This is simply feedback on a way I think it could be improved further, not to take away from how good it already is.

<comment><USER3> I think the idea is to keep mobile and desktop in sync here. And mobile doesn't have a "finger over" event I think.

<comment><USER4> Peek/Pop works on iOS for 6S and above.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> _By removing literal geography, we now have a map that more closely reflects the way we think about our environment: a cluster of restaurants "five minutes that way" versus "ten minutes the other."_

Speak for yourself! I feel way more confident getting around when I know the actual geography.

<comment><USER6> As a geographer I cringed. The article was written in a way that made it sound a bit more important than it actually is, and I think that quote was one of it. A designer finding geography and cartography for the first time. It IS good stuff though. Maybe the writing is stylised and maybe not as humble as usual techy writing?

People do think about space and the environment in spatial terms and also in time. This article is basically replaying the same failure that Google is showing - that maps only have an economic value. "Pizza in San Francisco" has been a meme in geospatial hacker land for over a decade and this is another incarnation of it. People think about space in non economic terms more than in terms of how to sell stuff via advertisements. We think about safety, attractiveness, how accessible it is, whats the parking like, who we are with, where next we are going to, what is the ambiance like, how will it be when we try to get home, crime levels, any nearby arts and events on, is the football on at the stadium, is it a weekday or a weeknight, is it near a university, is it during term time, what kind of people are nearby, are the streets well lit, how noisy are the streets. etc. etc.

Now - this doesn't discount the work. I think that a 2D map - the paper analogy onto digital form also isn't good, so any research and attempt to think about what's good and working is worth looking at. Care should be taken when giving psychological or psychogeographical points to such different designs.

<comment><USER5> Can you explain the "Pizza in San Francisco" meme? Not sure I get the joke.

<comment><USER7> What "problem" is a young single white male developer in San Francisco trying to solve?

What problems are (NOT (young, single, white, male, developer, in San Francisco)) trying to solve?

What is the Venn diagram of those problem sets? The market size? The impact?

If aiming to build a business that works outside the Silicon Valley bubble, you can go wildly wrong by designing for, appealing to, and getting traction in the tiny set.

<comment><USER7> Ha, for instance today: [https://blog.bodega.ai/so-about-our-name- aa5bff63a92d](https://blog.bodega.ai/so-about-our-name-aa5bff63a92d)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I would love a distance map that includes public transport travel time. For example, if I live close to metro/subway/train and I want to do really big grocery shopping. It would be interesting to see the nearest grocery that includes those I could reach by jumping on the metro and with minimal total walking.

It may be more effective to catch the train to a grocery in a completely different part of town than to walk 30 minutes to the one in your own neighborhood.

<comment><USER9> Applied to the maps in the article, this could end up introducing animation to the chart. If your local light rail arrives every 30 minutes, then your ETA to arrive at various different grocery stores is gradually changing, drawing nearer to the center, and climbs up a steep (half hour) cliff when you aren't close enough to the station to catch the train.

You could even colour the destinations by level of urgency - blue for destinations where you can casually stroll to the station, or red for ones where you really need to leave right away to catch the train.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> How is this more useful than an ordered list of search results, exactly? Once you've picked your destination, based on travel time, you still want figure out how to get there.

<comment><USER11> Well it still maintains some geographic info by keeping the direction. This helps for instance in identifying clusters of places, so user can think: "If I go that way there a N other places nearby too". Also the cardinal directions are still preserved, which help to interface with user's preexisting geographic knowelege.

<comment><USER10> Well, to some degree, yes. Maybe it's even mostly true. But the fact that point A and B are close to point C by some mode of transportation does not guarantee that they are close to each other. They might be separated by some geographic feature like a river, mountain or large road that doesn't separate them from C. Or the transportation options between A and C and between B and C may be excellent, but horrible between A and B. And so on. You need a normal map, or very good prior knowledge of the geography indeed, to know that.

<comment><USER12> If you click on A, you will be able to see if it is close to B or not. Or, more generally, clicking on a few points in a cluster on this map should give you an idea of whether you'll be able to travel easily between places once you get there. So I don't think it's as useless as you are making it out to be.

<comment><USER10> Then again, I fail to see how this is a major improvement over just clicking the first location of interest in an ordered list to generate a new list etc.

My main point is that to me, you're either interested in going to the closest location from where you are, and you'd probably want a brief description of each location to filter out points of interest to you. A list is just as good if not better (since you can quickly glance more information about each place) for that purpose.

Or else you're interested in the geography of the different locations or their exact spatial relationship and then you need a normal map anyway.

Sure, this is a neat geographic data visualization, but I just can't see myself using it in a real world situation.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Isochronic maps are pretty awesome. However, an isochrone-only projection that ignores geography is prone to the same sort of errors that the alternative creates. One simple example that is personal to me -- when I moved from SF to the East Bay, my commute into the city shortened by ~10 minutes because of where I'd been living (out by Ocean Beach) vs where I moved to and the nature of driving and public transit in the SF Bay Area. And yet as far as my friends who lived and worked in SF were concerned, I was now in this mystical place that they didn't really spend any time in or know much about (the perception of Oakland is also contributing here).

It'd be interesting to take travel data and cluster it such that you end up with an isopsychochronic projection. Commute visualizations I've seen end up feeling kind of close.

[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/us-commutes- revea...](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/us-commutes-reveal-new- economic-megaregions-map/)

</comment><comment><USER14> A bit off topic. What I really want in map software (specifically for finding my way): know that I know my way around certain areas. The beginning of my commute no matter where I go is full of turns every minute or two. It makes listening to audio books impossible because interrupted with "in 100 feet..." Constant.

Just day "go to $MAJORPOINT" then start giving me step by step directions.

<comment><USER15> Why not just set navigation audio to alerts only (at least in Google maps)

<comment><USER16> I use Waze on my daily commute not because I don't know the way to work, but because I would like to be routed around traffic as well as possible.

Setting audio to alerts works when a traffic situation develops while I am driving and the optimal route changes on the fly (generating an alert). But, if there is a pre-existing situation when I start that's changing the route in a couple of places from the "normal" route I get 80%of the time, alerts will only notify me of it about it five seconds after I miss the unusual exit, when it starts finding a new route.

Of course the simple fix is to get a phone mount and just look at the route whenever you want - but then you're leaving the screen on constantly, or unlocking it at arm's reach while driving.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> I wonder how it would look if you directly distorted the map by travel time.

<comment><USER18> This. I was hoping for some weird pictures of distorted maps.

<comment><USER17> For what it's worth, I think it would be computationally quite hard. You would have to pick a set of points and maybe _isomap_ them from three dimensions (x, y, and time) to two, then find a visually acceptable cage transformation using those points as anchors. You'd have to do this for each query.

<comment><USER18> The Isochrones [0] mentioned in the article include basically all the necessary information. I guess a capable GPU-shader programmer could easily render the distortion in real time. (Hint Hint Hacker News for a cool weekend project)

[0] [https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00156/#10/51.6840/-0.1480](https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00156/#10/51.6840/-0.1480)

<comment><USER19> The problem isn't in getting the data for the transformation but to figure out which transformation to use. It's not possible to do in the general case, imagine e.g. an infinitely quick circle line. Where do you put the part of the map that's inside the circle?

<comment><USER20> I think as far as figuring out the transformation to use on the a generic map I would:

0) ignore stuff like "infinitely quick" since that isn't realistic for what we are doing :-)

1) For the map I am displaying, pick a handful of points of interest to hse as controls, as well as my current location.

2) Use existing data we already have for stuff like direction routing to get travel times between all the pairs in our points of interest.

3) Draw a weighted graph, where each vertex is one of our points of interest and each edge is weighted by travel time. The initial position of each point should be it's geographic position, but we can then use an existing graph layout algorithm that uses an energy-based method (e.g. pretend the edges are springs) to deform the graph. This way each point will end up with its distance being proportional to travel time.

4) Using initial points as our input control points, and their location in the graph as output cobtrol points, use any number of image warping algorithms put there to calculate our warp / morph / deformation field.

5) Apply to initial map image.

I don't know how well it would work in practice but seems like a reasonable first stab at it! :-)

EDIT: Apologies for typo, fat fingers on mobile!

<comment><USER21> There's no reason your distance graph should correspond to any continuous mapping of the plane. Two distances constrain a third point to one of two spots. Add a third distance and unless you get lucky, there will be no valid corresponding point in the codomain.

<comment><USER20> That is absolutely true, and I fully admit that there isn't going to be a perfect way to do this unless you are very lucky. I'm only curious if you could use a method like this to make maps like shown above at [http://www.spiekermann- wegener.com/mod/time/time_e.htm](http://www.spiekermann- wegener.com/mod/time/time_e.htm) where it's approximately correct in a somewhat useful way.

My gut says it's probably more realistic to do this for large scale maps (say between major cities, 100s of miles, where distance is pretty proportional to travel time). Once you get down to the city / street level, yeah it probably gets real dicey with high variation in travel speeds depending on the particular road and how routes are laid out, and you just aren't going to get pretty triangles fitting together nicely :-P.

In any case its a fun problem to think about!

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> The location of the isochrones themselves are a function of time, depending on current traffic levels, when the next bus is scheduled to arrive, etc. Hence, this map can't be static. To really be accurate, it needs to collect that data and auto-refresh itself in short intervals.

</comment><comment><USER23> I love this idea, and also its acknowledgement of prior time maps for rail and other psychogeographic forebears. Its ability to put in relevant data in rational time-based space stops some of those issues that make us take a longer or particular direction because of habit, fear, or misunderstanding of the timespace about us. Nonetheless as a map-lover, I'd love to see how more contextual information could be added for serendipitous and geographical observation.

</comment><comment><USER24> This is a pretty neat idea, and I could see myself using this in day to day life.

It's nice to see real thought, study and execution into new ways of portraying things that have the possibility of becoming stale. While maps and their functionalities are very much "still in development" with many developers adding new features to them... most of these "new features" don't try to rethink how we see and use them. They just extend the feature set instead of stopping and trying to re-think what a map is and what it is supposed to do.

<comment><USER25> You don't think there are thousands of people working on exactly this stuff already?! There is deep research into this in academia and the private sector which has been going on for decades :|

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> Seems like the rate limit of api.foursquare.com has been exceeded.

<comment><USER27> We're working on it! Check back soon

</comment></comment><comment> crooked-v This is a cool idea, but what about combining it with public transit? In my city, the bus and light rail lines affect my decision-making in all kinds of weird ways. For example:

\- Going a few miles east (on the light rail line) is much, much faster than the same distance plus a mile north or south.

\- Some places on the inner east side of the river take me longer to get to than places further out that are on a bus line.

\- Going to the northwest part downtown takes me longer than going to the north part, even though they're both the same distance from home, because the transit lines run in an ⅂ shape.

</comment><comment><USER28> This is both clever and useful!

Is it possible to present a resized version of the route to each path underneath each target? (or perhaps show that on hover)

I understand that this would mean having overlapping map snippets of different sizes (with different centres), but some visual representation of the route to take could be nice.

Currently, the UX of having to click each target to see the path reduces the usability (having to go back and forth between the suggestions is tedious).

</comment><comment><USER29> This is absolutely amazing. If I could use this with a more intelligent search (pub / bar return different things, for instance - whereas I want to search for "places I can get a beer"), this would be fantastic.

<comment><USER30> Agree. Show me a time map for nearby draft beers with Beer Advocate or Ratebeer scores and I would use this all the time. Bonus points to restrict to certain styles like IPA, lagers, etc. Untappd could actually do this if they wanted.

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Really interesting that the "time distance" is more or less linear with walking/biking, but in a car it has a non linear relationship: For further places you take a highway, which requires some extra distance but adds a significant speed boost. Having the dots shift in position when changing modes of transportation was really insightful.

</comment><comment><USER32> As a user, I would find an isochronic map much more useful than the weird radial design they want to provide. To provide the level of precision that the radial map does without destroying our eyes with colors, they could substitute a color gradient with some sort of border around "reference times" such as 5 minutes.

The author thinks that the time-only maps address the root concern, which is "how fast can I get somewhere." But that's not entirely true: there are areas where I live that I would rather go to than others. If I search for sushi and I see one place in a crime-ridden neighborhood, a second place in the middle of nowhere, and a third place in the "trendy" section of my city where most of the rest of the food is good, I'm going to the third place if they're all the same distance (and probably even if the third place is farther than the first two, to an extent).

<comment><USER33> Just a cool thing to notice:

> I'm going to the third place if they're all the same distance (and probably > even if the third place is farther than the first two, to an extent).

By distance, you probably meant time to get there.

</comment></comment><comment><USER34> It's a really cool visual, but not too practical for points of interest searching on websites with more than a few points, although good if density is low and travel time area is small. Take a look at TravelTime platform that can do 1000s of points in milliseconds - here's an example using the TravelTime API for the same location and you can drag the marker about and it quickly recalculates points of interest or expand it out up to 90 mins journey time. [https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/#/search/0_lng=-122.34929...](https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/#/search/0_lng=-122.34929&0_tt=15&0_time=d1506011559544&0_title=1st%20Ave%2C%20Seattle%2C%20Washington%2098121%2C%20United%20States&0_lat=47.61466&poi=shop)

</comment><comment><USER35> I like it and this is cool to see. I have a Certificate in GIS and did some reading at one time about the inherent challenges involved in dealing with time in data visualization. This seems to be a fairly elegant solution.

 _In city centers with a lot of walking traffic, you may see maps overlaid with progressively larger circles, to estimate travel time based on simple physical distance. But this assumes that people move like crows fly: that there's a straight-line road for anywhere we want to go, through concrete walls and over lakes, without traffic ever to slow us down. In an urban setting, none of these are practical assumptions to make._

That isn't limited to urban settings. They are not practical assumptions to make in any setting.

</comment><comment><USER36> Its cool, and I can see the usefulness. After I used it for 5 mins I started thinking "hey I really could care less which direction I need to travel for lunch anyways", so its doing its stated goal there.

My only issue is that they define it as a "map". Its, well, its not. Its a useful tool, but a map tells you how to go there, and this is not that (until you click on something, so that second piece is a map fine). I can concede its a map in the sense that multiple places plotted are still direction-ally related to each other, but that's counter to going ahead and throwing out the map-streets in the first place.

</comment><comment><USER37> As a user, I would prefer two options: • an isochrone preserving relevant geometry geography and transit • a relative time ordering like this, but with the X and Y dimensions subject to change based on my current interests.

I.e. I appreciate radius from center as a very useful representation of travel time.

But I would liberate X and Y to be things such as rating and cost (to give two likely examples).

Once you distort space so you might as well go all-in (in this view) and let it pack in two more dimensions.

The resulting clusterings would be very interesting and useful I imagine.

</comment><comment><USER38> Pretty neat. I frequently use the example of Yelp's list and map views as an example of how maps aren't always better, even as they are more appealing compared to a text list. But I frequently use the list view because I can sort by distance, while still seeing the other important info (such as star rating, cost, food type).

But distance isn't the only important geospatial factor. Frequently I want to find a place to eat/drink that's on the way to another destination (such as a movie theater). This kind of chrono map would be more useful in a new city in which I don't know that a place 0.2 mi away to the west involves crossing an interstate. In a setting I'm familiar with, it's probably not particularly useful on mobile (given the limited dimensions for showing points and text labels), but could be great on print displays. It'd allow designers to show geospatial/time info without also having to render a full map.

On the topic of Yelp and other listing services, maybe some refinements could be made to make lists more geospatially useful. No reason why the list view has to show just distance, rather than time traveled. Or to include a filter option for direction, so that I can just see things west or south of me. It's pretty frustrating sometimes having to switch back and forth between list and map.

</comment><comment><USER39> I vaguely built something similar for Sydney, but in showing how good/bad public transport is than driving (hint: it's way worse to catch PT): [http://www.publictransport-or-drive.com/](http://www.publictransport-or- drive.com/)

It pretty much makes a isochrone maps all over the city, and gets google public transport and driving times and creates a ratio. I've started to work on a better version 2, but so far not much work.

</comment><comment><USER40> I love this kind of thinking.

I've always wondered even further about this - how you take this and extend it to 3 dimensions + time. In terms of maps, that would also help you with elevation or other obstacles that might slow you down from a straight line path.

Certainly, with the processing power and capacity today, we have the capability of knowing not only the two dimensional direction and the time it takes, but even the three dimensional position plus time.

I like to think of this crazy idea like a 3-D video recorder (maybe)... something that records positions of all objects in the specified space in slices of time, and can reconstruct any such slice and analyze the relative position of objects in space over time to each other.

I am not sure how such a technology would be made... capturing all the positions of everything in slices of time. I think we can do it with 3-D simulations, but not sure how we could record such data for the real world without modeling it in the virtual.

Still, this is such a cool direction and I for one like seeing people experimenting with something that we take for granted so easily, the map. I feel like everything that is amazing about time and space is somehow embodied by maps - astronomy, time, geography, relativity, etc.

</comment><comment><USER41> I actually think this is a step too far, conceptually. The isochrone map actually maps better to how I think about travel, and I would find it much more useful.

</comment><comment><USER42> I had this idea 15 years ago, although I was thinking you could manipulate the visual distance on the map to make it look physically closer, kind of like a topological map. It would take the current traffic, etc to take into account how close things were in time vs distance.

But I was never smart enough to implement it. This goes a bit along the way but hopefully someone comes along and implements that, I think I would find it very useful.

</comment><comment><USER43> Truly an impressive concept, but I didn't find it to be particularly accurate in Los Angeles. I searched for Mexican food near me and nearly all it could find were Chipotle locations. While I like Chipotle, this isn't quite ready for primetime. Not sure where they're pulling the restaurant data from, but it definitely isn't Google Maps, nor Yelp.

<comment><USER44> According to the post they fetch from Foursquare API.

</comment></comment><comment> rkuykendall-com This is going to be fantastic for upper Manhattan. Google Maps / Yelp don't understand that going north-south in Manhattan is so much easier than going east/west. A place can be 10x further away in miles, but still be easier and faster to get to.

</comment><comment><USER45> The idea has something, but I'd hesitate to call something that completely changes depending on on when, where and by whom it is viewed a map at all.

This is a nice tool to answer the descision-making question "where can I find a good restaurant to get to in reasonable proximity?" that the article talked about - but I'm worried about the undertones in it that were equating it to an actual map.

I'm not sure if that's their idea but if they are thinking about using this to _replace_ geographical maps, they should stop that thought quickly - there is an awful lot of information that a geographical map gives you that this doesn't.

</comment><comment><USER46> This is good idea but could be done differently. One major issue is that time is not only the optimization criteria. For example, if there are two places both 30 minutes away but one requires me to take tons of turns through narrow streets while other is straight forward highway driving then I would chose the later. Hack I would later even if cost was 25% more. Others may have some other criteria, for example, eating near river shore instead of in dirty back alley.

The bottom line is that you can't just throwaway physical maps. One way to marry your idea in physical may might be to color code places according to how far they are.

</comment><comment><USER47> It's also kind of interesting that you can draw some pretty strong inferences about neighborhoods once all the geographic cruft is wiped away. For example, from where I'm sitting in Midtown, Manhattan's east-side retail development bias is clearly revealed by a search for "Starbucks:"

[https://imgur.com/0jXYeRW](https://imgur.com/0jXYeRW)

If you center on the Central West End in St. Louis, you can clearly see that development has mostly happened in the western suburbs:

[https://imgur.com/yxnVkiK](https://imgur.com/yxnVkiK)

</comment><comment><USER48> "By removing literal geography, we now have a map that more closely reflects the way we think about our environment: a cluster of restaurants "five minutes that way" versus "ten minutes the other."

Oh my.... They just invented the 'list'. Or better yet a list that drives map interactions....oh my and an ordered list too! I could swear I did that like 10 years ago on google maps, but I guess it must have just been a dream.

Seriously, adding a fancy radius dial overlay doesn't really improve much over a plain old ordered list.

</comment><comment><USER49> Of course, distance on this map corresponds to travel time only so long as one of the points is the center; for a multi-leg trip, it still essentially requires manual inquiry and comparison.

</comment><comment><USER50> It'd be cool to see a similar map at relativistic scales that shows the relationship between travel time for different speeds and the elapsed time at the origin and destination.

</comment><comment><USER51> Good for initial decision making, but worthless for actually helping someone get somewhere, which is the function of a map. Perhaps this needs a different name.

</comment><comment><USER52> Not too bad, but the search needs to be less literal.

When I search for "sandwich", my neighborhood Subway should show up, even though the word doesn't appear in the name.

When I search for "convenience" or "store", my neighborhood convenience store should show up, even though those words do not appear in the name.

But I did discover a Whole Foods location that is even closer to my house than the three others in town that I knew of. Cool!

<comment><USER53> this isn't a question of being less literal, it's a question of building a search taxonomy and synonym database and tuning it for relevance, in this case, in the restaurants vertical.

this is something a lot of people don't realize about search engines i.e. yelp, angie's, etc. - they are tuned to fit the humans to the data, not vice versa.

</comment></comment><comment><USER54> It kind of reminds me of what Uber decided to do in their UberEats app, which is organize restaurants by how long delivery will take and not say anything about how many miles away the restaurant is or what its address is. You can't sort by distance or display a map. So it ends up being really annoying if you would rather deal with nearby restaurants you end up doing a lot of flipping back and forth from google.

</comment><comment><USER3> I've met with people from the Berlin mapbox team and feel they are a nice bunch.

However this map idea also reflects my core impression. Really smart people that provide constant high quality content (just look at the blog itself, how it's designed, and the other posts), but not really a disruptive spirit.

Sie sind _nicht_ der Elefant im Porzelanladen, you could say. That is their strength and their weakness.

<comment><USER55> "You are not the elephant in a cupboard full of porcelain", that means, by the way.

<comment><USER56> In the US we might say "you are not a bull in a china shop," which is in the same spirit.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER57> Why not just have a list sorted by distance or that same travel time? The concentric circles seem to make it more difficult to browse.

For an example, go to [https://groups.do](https://groups.do) , create an account (can be fake) and then click New Group, select some Dining activity and see the restaurants pop up sorted by distance. Done.

</comment><comment><USER58> Personally this is not how I think about this kind of concept divorced from the geography. But am glad there are tools to help express how I want to use GIS info! [https://boundlessgeo.com/](https://boundlessgeo.com/) is a highly customizable open source suite for GIS data as well.

</comment><comment><USER59> Refreshed my memory about when I was calling this "mobility circles" back in 2011. [http://blog.rodolphoarruda.pro.br/2011/05/os-tres- circulos-d...](http://blog.rodolphoarruda.pro.br/2011/05/os-tres-circulos-da- mobilidade.html) (portuguese)

</comment><comment><USER60> A pet project I've wanted to do for ages is to hack up a very high-detail (factoring in every road/footpath) isochrone map centred around my home, using openstreetmap data and render the result for a printshop at e.g. 600dpi to create a high quality map/poster

Any suggestions for the best (open) software to achieve this?

<comment><USER61> Click on the live link here [https://blog.mapbox.com/add-isochrones-to-your- next-applicat...](https://blog.mapbox.com/add-isochrones-to-your-next- application-e9e84a62345f) for an example. Use the extension linked in the article to create a high-resolution screenshot from a Mapbox GL Map canvas object. [https://printmaps.mpetroff.net/](https://printmaps.mpetroff.net/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER62> I like that there're companies like Mapbox and CityMapper challenging Google Maps and Apple Maps.

But giving a blank slate to a user and having them input a text query when they open the App might not be the best idea. In my head I remember the places around me using landmarks; the blank screen at the start makes me impatient.

</comment><comment><USER63> I like your idea but as vizs go it's a bit misguided. Something 4 rings out in one direction and 5 rings out in another would be hard to compare at a glance. Instead you could make a directionless viz that's basically a bar graph that's just as useful if your primary concern is distance in minutes.

</comment><comment><USER64> I wonder if it would be readable to overlay the distance map with the street map, and connect the two with a line.

<comment><USER65> Or connect the paths along sidewalks etc that will get you there in the claimed time.

</comment></comment><comment><USER66> Something similar, but simpler: [https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i- travel.htm](https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm)

Very useful in constraining a search area based on how far you're willing to commute when looking for a home.

</comment><comment><USER67> If you only care about time then direction is irrelevant. In which case just listing the restaurants in order of travel time would be better.

What would be cool is instead of time you have a score that takes into account time, cost (do I need an uber or will a bus do?) and variance (traffic delay probability)

</comment><comment><USER68> I'd like to see a version of this where you can input a list of errands - work, groceries, daycare, gas, gym - and it distills all the travel into a single dot. You pick the dot with the least amount of time and it gives you a list of locations in the order you should travel.

</comment><comment><USER69> I've had a similar concept rattling around in my head for a while. Rather than basing the time on travel distance from a point, you can base it on travel distance from a route. Then results can be ranked by "on my home commute, how far out of my way is this place?"

</comment><comment><USER70> I am finding it useful in realizing that some restaurants, stores are actually closer than assumed. This visual removing roads, hills is useful. It would be helpful to be able to toggle a normal map with all points, not just the selected on.

</comment><comment><USER71> City Block distance metric aka Taxicab geometry applies here.

[0] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry)

</comment><comment><USER72> I worked in a hostel for years and Europeans often noted how funny it was that people from the states referred to distance in regards to time

ie, an 8 hour drive, or 20 minute walk

It was always fun to sit around and speculate as to why

<comment><USER73> I do that here in New Zealand for driving. It doesn't really mean much to say that a town is 200 km away.

That 200 km could take anywhere from 2 hours to 3.5 hours to drive to, depending on the road and terrain. The distance isn't actually very relevant.

The tourist guides here specifically mention this, that don't plan your travel by distance, because 100 km in one place is not 100 km in another. In the old road maps, they'd have a travel time matrix, rather than distance (like this [0] except with times)

[0] [https://s3-us- west-2.amazonaws.com/liftweightpushcode/10f05e...](https://s3-us- west-2.amazonaws.com/liftweightpushcode/10f05ed87720db9d6fc78df773f6b1ac569953eb.gif?1483922525)

</comment></comment><comment><USER74> Very neat idea!

I can't seem to run a search in my location in NY. "Find Me" changes the address but the results are stuck in Seattle. I can't seem to change the query term either.

</comment><comment><USER75> My searches for food in Bellevue, WA found a Thai restaurant that closed 6 years ago (Tewada Thai), and a Mexican restaurant that left 2 years ago (Tres Hermanos).

<comment><USER76> I noticed that for "lunch", "sandwich", "food" in Toronto as well. Strange, since the demo claims to use the Foursquare API, but the same queries in the app offer better/more relevant results.

</comment></comment><comment><USER77> I have been waiting for something like this for housing searches. Suprisingly hard to search within a specific commute time rather than search by neighborhood

</comment><comment><USER78> This is a really cool idea but the live demo won't load for me when I put an address in. Anyone else getting this to work on Chrome (61.0)/Linux?

</comment><comment><USER79> I want to see such a map around every apartment for rent.

</comment><comment><USER80> I haven't heard much about Mapbox before. Where do they get their data? Do they buy it from another company or actually do the mapping themselves?

</comment><comment><USER81> This is really cool! I wonder what the other boundaries on the map (road, neighborhood, city, etc.) would look like when projected onto the time view.

</comment><comment><USER82> It would be cool if the directionality of the unit circle (northing/heading) changed based upon gyro orientation, when viewed on a mobile device.

</comment><comment><USER83> I think this is wonderful. I remember when people said talking about how far something is in time units was a "Pittsburgh thing" ;)

</comment><comment><USER84> I'm getting 403 responses, hence the map isn't loading for me, anyone have some interesting screenshots of it working?

</comment><comment><USER85> For food, I'd like a map that allows me to minimize the sum of time spent traveling and time spent waiting in line.

</comment><comment><USER86> It looks like a step backward from it's "prior art" that was installed in Oakland.

</comment><comment><USER87> Interesting concept. I like the overlay idea, but I think simply having that as a standalone map would not be useful in other areas where distance as the crow flies ≠ time traveled. Areas with large bodies of water (like adjacent peninsulas), mountainous areas or areas with strange road infrastructure (Some parts of Virginia).

Nonetheless, an interesting concept!

<comment><USER27> The distance changes as you change your mode of transportation - so barriers would be taken into account for the time traveled.

</comment></comment><comment><USER65> Removing the geography seems great until you are trying to cross rivers or highways.

<comment><USER38> Ostensibly, these kind of maps imply the time-cost of those obstacles more accurately than a standard map in which as-the-bird-flies distances are more explicitly shown.

</comment></comment><comment><USER88> This is fantastic - both in usefulness and in design. Very well done!

</comment><comment><USER89> I've never seen an isochronic map before. Those are legit!

</comment><comment><USER90> Searching for pho gets you photography... kind of annoying :)

</comment><comment><USER91> not sure whether this gives much advantage over just listing the results in order of travel time? It gives an indication of direction, but is that really useful?

</comment><comment><USER92> Interesting to see Melbourne Australia in some of the maps.

</comment><comment><USER93> Clever title!

</comment><comment><USER94> In .. 7 .. minutes you wi reach your deatination .. in shady alley behind the dumpster. But hey, it's close!

Cool idea though.

</comment><comment><USER95> I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Chris Lightfoot's beautiful interactive time travel maps that he did with MySociety and Stamen Design:

[http://v1.stamen.com/clients/mysociety.html](http://v1.stamen.com/clients/mysociety.html)

MySociety Travel Time Maps

Interactive maps of travel time and housing prices in London

MySociety, an NGO which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives, came to Stamen with a remit to explore two fascinating datasets: median prices of homes throughout London, and the time it takes to travel from one place to another throughout the city.

[https://www.mysociety.org/2007/03/05/more-travel-time- maps-a...](https://www.mysociety.org/2007/03/05/more-travel-time-maps-and- their-uses/)

[https://www.mysociety.org/2007/03/05/real-time-travel- maps/](https://www.mysociety.org/2007/03/05/real-time-travel-maps/)

Chris Lightfoot (4 August 1978 — 11 February 2007) was an English scientist and political activist. He was the first developer, with Tom Steinberg, at e-democracy charity mySociety.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lightfoot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lightfoot)

Sometimes, it's more useful to know a journey time than it is to know the distance.

That's why people often refer to 'an hour's commute' rather than '40 miles'.

Mapumental is a beautiful tool to show public transport travel times, from or to a chosen postcode, on a timebanded map. These can be embedded in websites, apps or online tools, or used for internal research purposes.

Transit-time maps, also known as isochrone maps, are not a new idea: there are examples dating back hundreds of years. But the online technologies behind Mapumental are new – and have unleashed a great many possibilities for all kinds of users.

[https://www.mysociety.org/better- cities/mapumental/](https://www.mysociety.org/better-cities/mapumental/)

Mapumental developed the project (site currently down for maintainance):

[http://www.mapumental.com/](http://www.mapumental.com/)

Stamen Design has done lots of really cool stuff with maps:

[http://v1.stamen.com/](http://v1.stamen.com/)

</comment><comment><USER96> +1 for title

</comment><comment><USER97> I think this would be far more useful as an overlay over a physical map than just entirely replacing one.

By that, I mean.. think of isobars.

</comment><comment><USER98> A de-cluttered version of this would work great in a car/auto context. "Show me nearby supermarkets"

</comment><comment><USER99> Come on, this is just a simple idea with lots of prior art. Nothing to brag about (as the title does) or to build a business around, as anybody can make such maps.

<comment><USER100> As someone who has never seen this kind of map applied to a relevant use case, I think there's a difference between having designed map like this vs building a tool for everyone to benefit from a map like this.</comment></comment>


The Inherent Bias of Facial Recognition - <AUTHOR> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-inherent-bias-of-facial-recognition <comment><USER2> "Asian people" is a bias in itself. Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia which some people consider to be part of Asia, making Stalin one of the "Asian people".</comment>


Ask HN: Validate my startup idea, Kickstarter for Academic research - <AUTHOR>

Hi all,
There's a lot of shaking up going on in the area of education, but one thing that hasn't really been modernized is research funding.  I think crowdsourcing academic research/distribution might be an interesting way for academics (or even non-academics) to collect funding, rather than applying for grants.  This can be used to fund, for example:
-Research that is not easy to get grants/public funding for
-Costs of doing research (paying participants, cost of research instruments, travel costs, etc.)
-Publication and/or internet hosting fees
I'm curious of anyone on HN has arguments for or against this model? <comment><USER2> What kind of academia are you talking about? You probably won't be able to raise enough money to make a proper life-science research grant.

You would be shocked how fast money goes, even if you are super thrifty with it. As an example, I used one gram of a particular reagent each week. One gram of this compound costs $200. I ran that experiment for almost a year, once per week. That's $10k for a single reagent.

If you factor in all the other costs of the experiment (culture media, weekly rat, tissue culture plates, poly-l-lysine for coating plates, nitrocellulose for blotting, antibodies for westerns (going at $600 for 50uL), assorted reagents, etc etc _ad nauseum_ ), the price of my single experiment for a year skyrockets into easily $20k.

That's one technician, working on one part of one tiny paper, working on one insignificant detail of how the human brain works.

Life-sciences is downright, stupidly expensive.

 _Edit:_ Sorry, that came across sounding curmudgeonly and bitter. Any lab would be thrilled to receive an extra $20k in funding - it would help pay for a technician to run an experiment.

Just be warned going into it that you will be making a very tiny dent in how things work.

</comment><comment><USER3> Researchers are already using kickstarter, kiva and other sites to fund their projects. Why a new site?

<comment><AUTHOR> I think it would be valuable for a number of reasons to have a community of researchers and research-funders rather than a general community of people that need money and people that want to give money away. The main reason being that it would make it more likely for experts to frequent the site and spend money (i.e. researchers could subscribe to a field of interest to get updates on new projects).

Also, I think the incentives would have to be different than current crowdfunding sites -- in some cases I think it would need to be donation based (which e.g. Kickstarter doesn't support).

<comment><USER3> Social networking tools for scientists have not been really successful so far.

There are charities collecting money for research. And there are rich donors giving money to specific groups in academic institutions. Charities would probably appreciate more traffic and exposure but there are google adword grants for non-profits and other channels they can use.

Regarding fundamental, curiosity-driven science - it might be too expensive to be crowdfunded. The use of citizen-science networks might be more realistic.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> 1\. There will be bureaucratic issue for a researcher seeking funding from public. 2\. There will be patent issue ( who will own the patent?). 3\. Unlike kickstarter where the contributor gets a finished product at the end, what does this project will offer to the public? Name in the publications? or patents?

<comment><AUTHOR> The legal implications would likely be tricky, especially between different countries, but IANAL so I won't comment on that.

I think one would have to be creative as to how to incentivize donations, but there are a number of things an individual could give back to a funder (perhaps a speaking commitment [e.g. a lecture], or something more sentimental like a postcard from the research area). Giving a portion of future patent royalties would be very interesting, but I'm sure there are some major legal considerations there..

Another idea would be to spend other people's money -- E.g. a charitable foundation would drop a sum of cash into the site that users would be able to spend on various research causes. Assuming one could get a charitable organization to be that risky..</comment></comment>


A Maintainable Style Guide - <AUTHOR> http://ianfeather.co.uk/a-maintainable-style-guide/ <comment><USER2> (Maintainer of KSS here)

A point of clarification, the inclusion of HTML in KSS blocks is actually a pattern I actively recommend against. It's something I've chosen not to include in KSS core a number of times for exactly this reason (even when my own co-workers submit the PR: [https://github.com/kneath/kss/pull/97](https://github.com/kneath/kss/pull/97))

If you're using KSS, I highly recommend tying it as close to your actual markup generation as possible. For me, that means rendering partials directly from rails with dummy objects. That way if the partial changes, the styleguide changes.

</comment><comment><USER3> I came up with this idea: [http://codingstyleguide.com](http://codingstyleguide.com)

Wouldn't it be nice to have a repository of many Style Guides, where the users can vote on each to decide which one is better - some kind of mixture of Quora, StackExchange, HN... I've been using it since launched and it's definitely helping me out, especially in my side projects with different programming languages. This is just an alternative instead of using a Style Guide generator.

<comment><USER4> Just FYI, the image at the top doesn't look that great on my retina display!

<comment><USER3> Thank you for the info @binofbread, I didn't know that. Could you please send me a screenshot to email@example.com? That would be great! Thank you!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Very interesting, i've been playing with KSS and boy the learning curve is pretty high on implementation.

The best way i've found to generate a styleguide (so far) is during the build process, there is a grunt plugin called grunt-kss (has SASS support) that i'm using to generate and deploy the "living style guide" to an internal server when ever a build is generated for production.

Really helps with the design dept. so they know what basic components on [x] website look like and can check them against designs.

</comment><comment><USER6> Something I've been wondering about is whether it would be possible to generate a page illustrating all the rules in an scss document(or less). Because scss documents use nesting it should be possible to construct the necessary divs (or other elements if specified in the CSS rules) to illustrate any style components. Is there anything stopping us from building a grunt task or whatever to generate the styleguide?

</comment><comment><USER7> For simple images with text and flat colors, maybe use PNGs instead of JPEGs. The inline images have some painful artifacting going on.

</comment><comment><USER8> Ian, I'm trying to save your content to Instapaper so I can refer to the article offline on my mobile device, but your canonical URL meta tag is incorrect.

        <link rel="canonical" href="http://Ianfeather.github.com/ianfeatherV3/a-maintainable-style-guide/">

</comment><comment><USER9> Curious if people think this sort of components driven development approach scales down to very small teams (2-5 ppl) or is this approach just for the big guys?

<comment><USER10> The upsides remain the same, but in small teams there is less pressure to go for a component architecture, so you have to come up with the discipline to go through the extra effort initially.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> FYI, the Github link to KSS in the article is broken (href just reads "KSS").

</comment><comment><USER12> The ui_component() call looks a bit like creating a React component, if you squint.

<comment><USER13> Yep. And if you make special test pages which render individual components and integrate those with huxley, you have tests for visual regressions basically for free.

[https://caurea.org/2014/02/23/testing-react-components- with-...](https://caurea.org/2014/02/23/testing-react-components-with- huxley.html)

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Wait, how is this different from just having reusable components?

</comment><comment><USER15> Nice one Ian. Hope you're well :) - Mark</comment>


Ask HN: What's the best antivirus tools for win10? - <AUTHOR> free or not? <comment><USER2> I tried about 10 different ones.

The final conclusion is that we should be as preventive as possible within the first steps.

This is where uBlock Origin comes in.

If the download bypasses the above extension, then use a combo of MBAM( malware) or RogueKiller( malware)+ZoneAlarm(anti virus and firewall)+ Cleaner( junk can be taken advantage by malware).

</comment><comment><USER3> I've used Windows Defender and I didn't had any issue so far (or I didn't saw it).

</comment><comment><USER4> Windows Defender is a very good choice, and has the advantage it's free.

</comment><comment><USER5> An ad blocker, and learning not to install things from dubious sources.

</comment><comment><USER6> Windows Defender with a firewall on whitelist mode.

</comment><comment><USER7> Common Sense (tm)

It's free!

</comment><comment><USER8> Linux?</comment>


What is the Answer to 99 of 100 Questions? - <AUTHOR> http://startupdaze.com/post/804402 <comment><USER2> F=ma</comment>


YC S17 invites/rejections today - <AUTHOR> For the second time this year here we are again! Today 10PM PST we'll know if we got invited or not. Good luck!!! <comment><USER2> Have you heard anything? We haven't here in the UK.</comment>