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Blatantly self-promoting, but we (in Australia) are trying to develop a general solution for better open data search over at https://search.data.gov.au - solution is all open source at https://github.com/magda-io/magda.

I'm not sure what I expected, but some kind of NSFW tag would've been nice :|

For those others who tend to go to the comments before clicking through, these aren't tools for _visual_ design, they're for _product_ design - how to pitch your product, how to plan your MVP etc.

Glad to see these hit the front page, they were a big inspiration behind the product design parts of https://nichetester.com, particularly the idea of visualising a tagline by throwing it up on a T Shirt.

Thing is this puts it in a narrow band of competitiveness between human-driven trucks (less capital-intensive, more expensive over time) and trains or sea ports (more capital-intensive but still cheaper than automated trucks). A lot of bigger cities where it makes economic sense to have this kind of hub-and-spoke model will already have trains and ports too, so it's a bit dicey.

One of the things another team at my organisation is working on is using it so that competitors can pool their data to do better analytics over the whole corpus without actually revealing their secrets to the other company - https://www.n1analytics.com/.

Partnering with industry has always been a part of the plan though - that's why it's the Commonwealth Science _and Industrial_ Research Organisation.

If CSIRO doesn't partner with industry you end up with debacles like the wifi lawsuit.

Oh it was just timing out, I assumed it was suffering from a HN hug of death but it could've just as easily been my connection :).

What I really love is that (when the server is working) you can

    ssh brow.sh

And then have a graphical browser from anywhere :D.

This is a massive deal for monorepos. A lerna bootstrap with yarn as the package manager takes a few minutes from scratch, with npm it takes hours.

Oh, I'd assumed the Perth->London one was the same sort of deal, but turns out it's an actual route with passengers and food and all. That is pretty impressive.

> Qantas just commenced one of the (if not THE) longest non stop flights from Perth in Western Aus. to London in 17 hours. I myself flew from Sydney to Houston direct in 15 hours last month

They flew a 747-400 from Sydney to London direct all the way back in 1989 - things haven't changed that much unfortunately :(.

Then we can turn off the electricity for the whole town and see if it stops! :D

Unfortunately due to antibiotic resistance, no :(.

Interesting content, but it really needs a proof-read. There's entire repeated sentences that have evidently been copy-pasted during a rewrite and never deleted from their original location :/.

They could be implementing blocking at the title level instead of on the whole site - so with a VPN I can't watch geofenced content but I can watch House of Cards, for instance.

Probably - the equivalent law in Australia has enough loopholes to make it largely pointless anyway... particularly sending one of your children to study then buying through them.

It's a crowd-pleasing law, not an effective one.

True, but there's a survivor bias there - for every guy who stumbles into millions there's 100 writing content that gets ignored and making nothing.

Check out https://search.data.gov.au for what we're doing next too :)

My experience in doing this has been that a surprising number of people who click the buy button still put their email address down afterwards, and none of the people I've talked to who did were remotely miffed about the deception.

It probably depends on the audience, but people are more understanding than you'd think about the need to look before you leap, especially when they know you're just a solo entrepreneur.

I'm building something to do exactly this at https://nichetester.com - I should note that I used the method described in the OP to validate it and it worked really well :).

I wouldn't expect them to want to though. Not because it's a terrible language to program in, just because it's not going to look as good on a resume for later jobs.

I don't mind hacking something together and not getting paid, but what bothers me is that hackathons are very rarely about what actually gets made - now that many have thousands of dollars worth of prizes, it actually behooves hackers to put a lot of effort into presentations rather than development, and if you don't win a prize you feel like you've wasted your weekend.

I've found civic hackathons like Random Hacks of Kindness (http://www.rhokaustralia.org/) to be a lot more fun though.

The original tweet that started the whole avocado thing was arguing that millenials should be eating a $2-4 avocado at home rather than paying $14 for it at a cafe.

Of course, if you share a tiny apartment that's probably not such a pleasant way to catch up with your friends, but what does he care, he's already got a house.

That sounds awesome, but how could you do it without either:

  - Client sends the entirety of what it has to the server so the server can do the diff
  - Server sends the entirety of the new page to the client so it can do the diff
  - Server is constantly keeping track of the last thing that the user looked at so it can send the diff for the next page

?

Allowing women to both vote and stand in parliament is the classic example.

> Wilson says the evangelism over Agile working and minimum viable products has resulted in poor security practices becoming commonplace procedure.

Even if it's food for thought in general, this is a pretty weak argument as applied to the Australian government - agile practices haven't made a lot of inroads there, particularly projects supplied by companies like IBM who tend to use super-rigid waterfall. If anything the recent failures prove that less-agile processes don't guarantee you anything in terms of security.

Original article written by the reporter who actually did the original research: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/04/the-m...

Still can't see anything about making server-side rendering a first class citizen for relay :(.

A bit disappointed to be honest - this doesn't do much better than Cesium and has a hard requirement on Chrome :(.

Sounds very much like what Brendan Eich's trying to do with Brave.