skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do also hate the brutalist movement, a movement which seems to have been created for the pure purpose of throwing out thousands of years of learning on how spaces should work for humans and how buildings should look to be pleasing.

Yet, there are a few beautiful examples of the style, many of them are in the article here, there's others as well (see Saarinen's works for examples).

I know there's an unusual contingent of brutalist fans here on HN...I know they're unusual because by and large people don't travel to take pictures of brutalist buildings, but they'll take pictures of just about anything else.

Very few people pay brutalist architecture much attention other than how they're going to deal with these expensive, often poorly designed, crumbling buildings, very few of which last more than a few decades.

The nearest major city to me is full of brutalist buildings, and after just a handful of decades of use, it's being found cheaper to tear them down and start over than to try to fix them. People who work in them avoid them as much as they can, nobody likes walking near them or in their courtyards, they've proven to be terrible public spaces in general.

I wonder if what makes the examples in the OP look worth saving is that they're brutalist or that they're brutalist forms of other, previous, architecture movements?
> Am I correct in thinking that the people who have a positive view of brutalism are people with a background in architecture?

I may be heavily biased as having grown up in La Défense, but I thoroughly enjoy brutalism for how it embraces functionality as the yardstick for aesthetics. The outward appearance of brutalist buildings may clash with many people's tastes, but their inside is livable - way more livable than classic architecture and at a much more affordable cost.

Don't forget that brutalism came of age during Europe's housing crisis and that mass manufacture was the key to solving it. As a result, many brutalist products have been cheaply built, giving it a bad name - but as buildings such as La Défense's Vision 80, they can be very nice too and stand the test of time: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sidence_Vision_80
On the other hand, alcohol is actively pushed and widely accepted within our society. It's extremely difficult to avoid if you have a problem with it, and it's also extremely easy to develop a problem with through the numerous situations in which you are expected to consume or have access to it.
Supply of substance from a clinic allows you to fulfil the needs of the existing population, without having the problem of vendors pushing the substance onto new users. ( One would hope.. )
As far as I can tell after serious study of this†:

You work in a field that doesn't care about or can respect age, embedded and especially jobs requiring security clearances (which are expensive to get for the very first org that hires you), you become a consultant or otherwise self-employ, you work directly for the government, you get very lucky, or you find another line of work.

†I first became aware of this in a particular job search when in my mid-late '30s, I got a clue, scrubbed my resume of all indications of how old I am, and then got a massive increase in responses. Started following the issue closely since then.

I hear its very bad in the Bay Area, but, oh, based on an acquaintance in the Boise, Idaho region after HP laid off a bunch of older guys like himself and replaced them with H-1Bs, it's bad in many places (after consulting for a while he had to settle for a state government job, helping to rescue a bunch of Java done by a literally criminal body shop).
I think the important thing that needs to be addressed here before this file format takes hold is how the hell you are going to pronounce this format. I don't want another gif/gif debate.
The resolution is some of the best in the business, so to speak, but the biological interpretation of all MRI-derived metrics are still hotly debated. So the true level is detail is sort of dependent on something we don't know yet.
It's because the money isn't given to the politicians or their campaigns. The money is spent hiring the lobbyists, and their teams to dedicate manpower to finding convincing arguments which can then be presented to the politicians.

Yes lobbying is usually associated with evil corporations, but the fact of the matter is that in order to fix it you would need to remove the power for citizens to speak to their representatives.
I believe you are thinking of a different platform. Patreon is a Kickstarter-like site, but with a monthly pledge. It is not for music hosting.
Already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10314072 yesterday.
Don't all ski areas look horrible without snow?
> collateral costs

Read "human lives".

I understand and share your sentiment regarding the fact that a chance towards a (seemingly) more liberal form of government is good. But I'd be hesitant to call the costs of unrest at such a scale merely worrisome. The only thing I hope for is that change will come slowly, if it comes at all.
To me, it looks like structural core of some other, much more appealing but tragically unfinished building.
I was going to make an excuse, but, you know what, I'm just wrong.

I checked my own Bayesian and MailChimp does keyword as a medium spam indicator, but not enough for an immediate dump.
TrueType fonts are apparently Turing Complete.
I suppose it's a well traveled trope.

To quote Aristotle: "Nature abhors a vacuum"
Managing Complexity, Functionally [video]
Did you click the setting "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses"? If so, this will prevent Hangout from working. Reference issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/757
>so many companies lawyers will prevent engineers even looking at it to write a clean-room implementation.

Maybe you should look up what 'clean-room' reverse engineering is. One person looks at the code, writes down how what it does, then gives that description to another person who writes CLEAN-ROOM code based upon the description.

There's no difference in doing a clean-room implementation of GPLv3 code than of any other code license.
It said the guys name in the subdomain that this was available on. I can only imagine how that guy must feel, worst thing that I can imagine happening as a dev.

We've all made stupid mistakes and not paid a price as high as this!
The PostgreSQL Conference 2011 :"Trees and Graphs in the database" https://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/357.en.html

* Trees in the database - Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/quipo/trees-in-the-database-advanc...

* Graphs in the database - Slides : http://www.slideshare.net/quipo/rdbms-in-the-social-networks...
Show HN: WTF winter is coming…glad there is inspiration
Site reliability basically boils down to two things: Whether you build it right, and whether you actually spend enough on hosting (and on the right things). I have a client I've billed well into the 5 digits in pounds over the last year due to incidents that would never have occurred if they'd been willing to invest half of that in hardware upgrades, for example.

So I agree: It's so much down to priorities, and basically if your pager goes off all the time, you've likely prioritised wrong - it's false economy. Adding an extra server to get the capacity needed to prevent a total meltdown is likely going to be worth far less to you than the time and lost business those meltdowns are. And thankfully when you do things for yourself you get to make those choices.
Why Jack Dorsey is ready to save Twitter
I hope this doesn't come across as a "RTFM" comment, because I don't intend it to be, but I have found it helpful to get into the habit of reading man files when I need to know how to use a command. The quality of the man files on your system might not be the best, so I would suggest bookmarking the man pages from the OpenBSD project[1]. It might not always be directly applicable to your system, since some commands are different between linux, osx, and *bsd, but no matter what platform you are on, the OpenBSD man pages are very high quality, and at the very least might point you in the right direction.

1: http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/OpenBSD/
Well, we could just get everyone to use Firefox, and this image format will be a web standard.

Google is currently using webp everywhere, too, despite no major browser actually supporting webp.

(I do not consider Chrome a browser, but mal- and spyware)
Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
Command line flag, environment variable or interactive prompt could help. Maybe the interactive shell should be enabled separately from debug itself, since some only use debug for the exceptions. It could also explicitly try to figure out if it's running in production mode by detecting WSGI, disabling setting app.debug in favor of app.run or when listening on 0.0.0.0 and if not block that make you use "public_debug" or whatever.
How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Seconds, for Free
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/data/inventory/

If I'm reading it correctly, it looks like either 1.5mm, 2mm, or 2.5mm, depending on the dataset.
That quote has always bugged the shit out of me, because: those were only the worst slave owners for future generations of sociology and history students (who mostly didn't descend from slaves).

For the actual slaves themselves, the worst slaveowners were the ones who whipped and tortured their slaves in an attempt to extract more value (or just for fun), those who separated children from parents, raped the women or forcibly bred them, and who killed their loved ones for relatively minor insubordination (or just for fun).

It's one of those pithy cocktail party quotes that is complete bullshit。
NASA director Jim Green discusses the Martian and better living through radiation
They keys would need to be much better looked after than that, of course. They just need to not be easily accessible from the machine they protect. You'd need a procedure in place so anyone with access to the relevant machines is able to obtain and use the keys as needed in an emergency.

Being able to dump RAM pretty much breaks the protection that this offers though, as you correctly point out.
Honda Using Experimental New ASIMO for Disaster Response Research
Should have called it Test Me, Not That
Apple’s Clever Tech Makes the iPhone 6s Nearly Waterproof
IIR, that hotel is right next to a very forgettable brutalist national library who's only merit is having several treasures from older time periods in it.

When I first walked up to it, I wasn't sure if it was a public rec center, library, school or prison.

On the other side of that same hotel are several quite beautiful modern, non-brutalist buildings (like the station). My gut tells me that the Library won't last 30 more years before tear down, but the station and the hotel will make it long after.
Mobile does not mean Apple, which is what the entire article is about.
Implementing an Observable Pattern in Swift
So, no.
Originally, the 4 copy maximum didn't exist. However, there were two early decks that broke the game:

20x Black Lotus
20x Channel
20x Fireball

Gatherer links: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver... http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver... http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

As long as you get 2x Lotus, 1x other two in your opening 7 cards, first turn kill. Play two lotus, sacrifice one for green, one for red. Play channel with green. Give up 19 life. Do 22 damage with Fireball.

Black Lotus is worth five figures these days, so building that deck would be very expensive. Replacing them with Mountains and Forests gives you a deck for less than ten dollars that can routinely kill on the fourthish turn every time, though.

The second one is even sillier: (see edits and citations below, I slightly mis-remembered this one, but the concept is the same)

60x Shahrazad

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

This was Richard Garfield's favorite card. But due to the way the rules work, a subgame within a subgame within a subgame within.... means that you win, due to the way that rounding works.
Leadership Lessons from James Bond Villains
With the advent of consumerism, high-tech mass surveillance, and control of mass communication channels I think China has reached what political scientists refer to as "the end of history". Meaning that society will stay stable and no revolutions will be possible. At least for a few hundred years.
I'd be very excited to see more Free Software instant messaging applications support OMEMO (http://conversations.im/omemo/). It's basically TextSecure's Axolotl protocol with a few slight modifications. As such, it support multi-party OTR-like PFS and multiple devices. In contrast to TextSecure, Conversations (the first client to implement it) allows you to use it without having to install Google Play Services and makes it usable on a decentralized infrastructure (XMPP). If it became standard for Open Source messaging clients (whatever transport they use) to have Omemo built in and use it opportunistically, we might actually have a chance to provide usable crypto to the masses.
I've signed up for a api key, but I can't work out how to use it. I can't find any documentation.

I've tried using the curl example provided in https://github.com/pelias/pelias and appending api_key=$apikey to it but I just get an error back saying that this is not a valid key.

Has anyone found any documentation for how to use this API?
>> I think you have the picture reversed -- the article is saying the problem is nuanced and complex when we'd rather believe it was simply the war on drugs.

I disagree. I think it's unsatisfying because it naively minimises the wider effects of the WoD.

I'm not American so I don't really have a vested interest in your prison population and why it's there, I only really know that compared to your population size it's huge.

I am quite pedantic though, and it looked to me like firstly it wasn't complete in its reasoning and secondly like 300K people out of 1.7M is still a very significant amount.
Indeed that was about 5 years ago. The problems generally were around assets getting out of sync, and occasionally corruption when uploading to the large-file storage server.

Problems generally occurred when a client timed out in the middle of an upload or download.

They were troublesome issues (and silent failures) which made it unusable for production use.

Hope they got it fixed, it was a great concept, and well ahead of Git in attempting to solve!
I have written many cross-platform shell scripts over the years. The -print option may have been made standard by the GNU implementation and then spread -- I don't know -- but at least on some older versions of UNIX you do indeed need to specify -print or it won't.
by Google ads do you mean ads on Google? Or AdSense ads placed across the web (AFS? AFC?)? or do you mean AdSense + Doubleclick (DFA, DFP, ...) + AdExchange + AdMob + I could go on for a long while. Bottom line is google, more than anyone else, has a lot of skin in this game.
I love Unix shell, but I gotta admit, the find command is kind of a mind fück.
you forgot these monstrosities

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

These look like entrances into the Soylent Green factory, where the old people in the pictures are about to get turned into food. Wretched, unfriendly, unlivable public spaces.
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Mutual Funds Mark Down Dropbox Holdings
I would be very surprised if Firefox added support. They have been very reluctant to include any additional image formats that weren't developed by Mozilla employees. See for example WebP and Jpeg2000.

Their reasons being things like added security risk, lack of demand, lack of support in other browsers, patent risk etc, which all apply just as much to this format.
I am on OS X now, but I remember using `locate` on Linux to achieve something similar to OS X `mdfind`
> If a company wants get something for free, expecting it to publish source code changes is not an actually high threshold.

Obviously the issue is not about publishing changes to the library, it's about publishing the rest of the source which just uses the library as a building block.
>> That's extremely wishful thinking.

It's something I've read about coming out of the Swiss model, which medicalises heroin addiction rather than criminalising it.

I'm not going to hunt for references right now so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
AFAIK that building (the old Camden Coucil offices) have already been torn down. Or do you mean the British Library (which is excellent!)?
There are about a zillion things out there that can do that.

Including Emacs, which you could use with a bit of elisp :-)
Just found the documentation here: https://github.com/pelias/pelias-doc
The Scrum Retrospective Meeting: An Introduction
> concrete castles.

Yeah those are quite good looking buildings. But I wonder how much of what makes them look beautiful is the fusion of previous architecture movements with the construction techniques of brutalism and how much of it is pure brutalism?
Peeple, so-called “Yelp for people”, may be vaporware
It's not about being apologetic or anti-freedom, it's all about the reality of software.

If it gets reimplemented with a more libral license, then the more liberal version will dominate. If there is any incompatibility whatsoever, the more liberally licensed version will win. Look at gcc for an example: it has gcc-specific extensions and there are other compilers with more open license. These compilers are gaining the upper-hand.

Making it GPL instead of LGPL is just a bad political choice. Especially for something which need wide adoption to even live. Image formats can only exist if they get adopted.
Thinking back to the old days, are you sure the black and white image you have in mind didn't come from the "lowsrc" attribute of an img tag? Progressive jpeg is typically full colour from the start, and it does offer the progressive enhancement of resolution that you mention.
>> Spending non-prison public dollars on peoples' heroin addiction (while potentially a good idea), will never happen in the U.S. before the heat death of the universe.

Oh can you imagine the horror!

"Our tax dollars are going on keeping them no-good junkies in smack! Not on my watch!"

Even if it was the best thing for law and order, for society, for everyone.... yeah I know, it'll just never fly.
My other favorites are Spacechem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzzLzUCRmBw) and Terraria.
Providing a filtered email address without domain privacy is another option.

However, a domain needs to have a point of contact, in case of abuse or illegal activity. Domain privacy is a valid service, where the registrar serves as a proxy for you and hides your personal information from public view.

While you could argue that it should be included as a default service, the pricing of domains is almost entirely arbitrary anyway.
Oh I had no idea that would prevent it from working. I wish they made that clear. Thanks!
The Shahrazad deck also presumably needs either Plains or Black Lotus.
On Patriotism: Reflections on gun control and freedom the world over (2014)
Reporting Is Ugly
It's not bad -- my point is that the class of the (admittedly stereotypical) complainer about plea-bargaining, is also one of its bigger beneficiaries. That probably wasn't clear based on the comment I replied to.
That's what GPGTools is for (formally MacGPG): https://gpgtools.org/opensource.html

(You can build and use your own gpg binaries if you're concerned about their modifications)
If the only spec is the code, that's going to be prohibitively difficult. There's a warning that the format isn't complete either, and you can expect breaking changes.
I have to disagree in regards to the Nest. Most houses still have their original thermostat. I don't see the Nest ever causing a house to sell for less. Even if Next/Google stopped supporting the product it would be trivial to replace it with a cheap conventional thermostat.
> Anyone know if the 3rd photo down from the top is part of the setting for the 1995 movie 'La Haine'?

It is not, but your rightly recognized its style - both Les Tours Nuages and La Cité De La Noé in Chanteloup Les Vignes were designed by architect Emile Aillaud.

In 'La Haine' the Cité De La Noé appears as 'Cité Des Muguets'.

http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org/index.php?option=com_dats...
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I can find you a similarly sized blank area of wall on any building, including St Pancras. Sure, it'll have denser tiling (bricks instead of concrete tiles), but as far as I'm concerned there's a similar amount of overall visual stimulus in a blank brick wall.
"The top 1% of Chinese families hold an average of $1.6 million in assets ... an annual income of $91,639 puts you in the top 1% in China"

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/09/23/what-percent-a...
That's one of the key points of the article. You can't reasonably extrapolate that the goalposts will always move. Just because science is able to discern more than we expected in the past and will continue to do so in the future, doesn't provide us with any concrete reason to trust that its eventual scope is equivalent to the full breadth and depth of potential understanding. In fact, quite the contrary since the great virtue of science is that its scope is limited to empirical, quantifiable truths.

You can avoid that uncomfortable question by proclaiming empirical reality to be the only reality, but that's a metaphysical claim with no greater merit than its opposite.