Testing code that mixes native promises with $q promises (eg. as
returned by $http methods) is a PITA in tests because in that
environment:

 1. Native promises behave as usual - resolving on the next tick

 2. $q promises do not resolve until a digest is triggered explicitly.

As a result, causing a promise pipeline involving both types of promises
to fully execute is tricky.

Sticking to `$q` promises for the moment means that
`$httpBackend.flush()` will synchronously flush any resolved promises
and HTTP requests.

In future we can replace this crap with plain fetch() as part of
extracting the Hypothesis API client as a separate entity from the
client.