skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Part of the blame, I feel, rests at the feet of the Modernist movement — a movement that idealized the cube and disdained roof overhangs. Modernist architects were ignorant of the entire concept of moisture management. The fact that thousands of Modernist buildings suffered water entry problems did little to deter architects from falling in love with Modernism and Brutalism. This tragic love affair contributed to the withering of age-old skills."

I believe this is a fair assignment of blame. It's analogous to the complaints people have about some modern web design - total focus on appearance at the expense of usability or technical quality.

The architects produce buildings that look good on paper, because that's what wins the contract. The next client isn't going to go to their previous building and do a customer satisfaction survey on the users. Nobody ever does.

Edit: Incan stone construction is one of the great examples of ancient 'over'building: precisely fitted hand-carved stone, good for five centuries. And Rome has plenty of 2000 year old brick buildings, especially the Pantheon dome.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3rrr9z/what_do_webl...

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201511....

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Information_leak_through_ser...
Search hipmunk. Sort by price. Buy. That's the whole process. They don't look at any other factor (search engines don't surface them)
Not having people use your product the way you expected it is not a problem. This is in fact the greatest lesson from Twitter history: you don’t make your product; your users will.

The problem here is that Twitter is slow to respond to these usage patterns; we don’t really know if they realize how people use their product and they seem to try random things to satisfy investors and/or users.
Twitter is only interesting because it happens to be the current iteration of instant messenger / community chatroom. Kik, AOL IM, ICQ, IRC.. there's no particular innovation from Twitter keeping users there. It just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and right now it seems as though anything with a half decent design UI and interesting set of features could sprout up to draw migration from twitters core/casual userbase.
I think that is a pretty big leap to make that our government would start crushing legitimate organized dissent. It is basically an argument that our government will be more evil in the future. However, if that is the true fear, why are we worried about intelligence gathering. Shouldn't we be more afraid that our now evil government has the strongest military in the world?
Why woulda few extra bit in the source data help there? A DAC with more bits would, but that can easily be scaled from the existing data.
A) Facebook doesn't need publicity.

B) Sure, but you want to encourage long-term investors, not short-term traders.

C) Sure, but how does Facebook benefit from that?

D) I'm pretty sure there's enough competition in the market that a single bank rejecting the block trade won't impact the final execution price too much.
Brutalism gets everywhere in modern british arcitecture. The idea that any archtiect should be designing a flat foor bulding in, say, Scotland is totally bonkers.
Maybe because I'm no longer in my early 20's, something about agreeing to be an employee in that environment, e.g. staying late for "1st and 2nd dinners", for something you didn't found, just feels humiliating.
Generally true. The relative cost of wood vs brick also varies from country to country depending on local availability.
I've favorited nothing since the heart change.

Why? You know what the function does, and the way you worded your comment implies that there are still things you want to like/favorite, so why not?
I should include a disclaimer to this comment that despite attempting to use Twitter multiple times, I still cannot find a use for it, so I would not consider myself a "Twitter user". That said, the criticism of the favorite -> like change makes no sense to me.

> Favorite (old) = neutral statement related to the importance of the tweet for you. It's mostly a bookmark, not really an endorsement.

> Favoriting a tweet didn't mean it was her favorite (as Twitter apparently believes)

Oh yeah? If that's true, that's a terrible UX. Any time you have to say "xxx doesn't actually mean xxx", you should stop and think extra hard about what you're saying. "Favoriting" a tweet should mean exactly what it says it means.

And considering how favoriting a tweet notifies the recipient, and a person's favorites are public, I don't buy that favoriting a tweet was a neutral reaction to a tweet. If I got a notification that said Bob favorited tweet yyy, I would take that to mean endorsement.

Just because some users are using it as a bookmarking service doesn't mean that's what most people use it as or what Twitter intends it to be used as.
Some people consider the fav button as a marker, the expression of feeling is not necessarily what they want. I understand this UX change might bring more users because it made others subconsciously feel being endorsed, but personally I don't like it, it's like twitter claims that I have something which I don't.
No modern industrialized nation prohibits foreign intelligence collection. Most prohibit domestic collection, to some extent. Evidence of domestic collection is in the public interest. Evidence of foreign collection isn't.

These threads tend to get batty very quickly. Let me lay this out a bit:

* I think NSA (and, to a much greater extent, GCHQ) are culpable for a huge amount of misconduct, much of it revealed by Snowden.

* I'm glad the Snowden documents that illuminated clear misconduct, such as GCHQ cable tapping of Google in the UK, or US collection of cell phone metadata, were published.

* I do not generally believe that people in the NSA randomly listen to foreign communications for kicks, nor do I believe for a second that they do things like surveil presidential candidates, despite what Snowden has implied. Not because people in the NSA are good or righteous or principled, but simply because nobody has the time to do that

* I believe NSA foreign collection generally happens for reasons that most people in the US support - tracking terrorist networks and counterproliferation.

* I believe the balance of NSA foreign collections operations happen for reasons that I don't like, but that are pro-forma "legitimate" and part of the competition that occurs between all countries. For instance: to the extent that NSA is monitoring the state depts/foreign offices of other countries: I'm not a fan of that, but I'm not outraged by it.

* I believe NSA cuts a whole lot of corners in pursuing those goals, especially post-9/11.

* I do have a problem with corner-cutting, and I would have a problem with evidence that the NSA was listening to, say, German telephone communications for sport, or, like France, monitoring foreign commercial communications to tip off domestic industry, leaks illustrating that would be in the public interest.

Given this rough sketch of my worldview, it does not seem reasonable to me for the public to have a line-item veto over all the foreign SIGINT conducted by the USG. That notion seems equivalent to simply not doing SIGINT at all, which to me does not seem realistic or productive.
This is clearly overkill, if you ask me, but let's not get too carried away with "44kHz 320kbps mp3 are always good enough and if you say otherwise you're a snakeoil-buying fool." For starters, there are people who can hear well into the 22kHz range. Mp3 is also based on a psychoacoustic model, and that model can be (and absolutely is) more accurate for some people than it is for others, and it is also subject to fundamental flaws (there are sounds that will always produce a compression artifact for even the latest encoders).

It drives me absolutely crazy when people start circlejerking over "those dumb ol' flac people." I don't care how much theory you think you have; you don't know what you're talking about.
Newer stuff I like:

* The “While you were away” list of tweets
* Auto showing images
* The analytics being available for everybody
* Muting accounts
* Blocking retweets (but allowing normal tweets) from specific accounts.

However I note that the Trends list on the main web interface no longer was a short summary of what each trend is. I guess whoever was doing that got let go.
I find it difficult to hold that argument to any light.

Yes, US foreign relations were damaged as part of the release - but how can anyone claim it's OK to subvert US companies efforts to do business in good faith with foreign customers? Or to wire-tap our closest allies? What about the fallout in pursuit of Snowden where US government officials technically invaded the sovereign nation of Bolivia (the Bolivian President's plane)?

Bringing it home, how is it OK to wire-tap our own elected officials? Or the entire city of Salt Lake? Parallel construction which put people in prison without a fair trail? Purposefully weakening or subverting security protections for every citizen?

Yes, it stung. However it was necessary, and absolutely in the public's best interest. These surveillance programs are very much out of control and scope. There is no sane argument to the contrary.
In Somerville, MA there is an area with some converted loft buildings including new construction loft-style buildings. The new building walls use masonry blocks (large grey blocks) for structure, with decorative brick on the outside. On the inside, there is a cavity for insulation and wiring, and an interior brick wall.

The masonry work is excellent, and is probably the best way to create a wall that looks like brick inside and out yet meets modern insulation demands. But it is a gratuitously expensive construction technique to try and make a building look old and classic. If you don't value that particular aesthetic, you would select other materials. If you want to pander to that aesthetic but don't have a premium loft budget, you might end up with crap like that dorm.
He may be in perfect agreement with Snowden himself. I believe Snowden would be happy to serve a reasonable prison sentence after a fair trial.
So you get two friends and they bid $2 and $1.
This does seem to divide people. My own instant response to the favourite system was that it was obviously a means of expressing approval, without bombarding your followers' timelines with other people's stuff. "This tweet is a favourite of mine" = "I like this tweet". Eventually somebody favourited one of my tweets and I got an email telling me they'd done it, which just reinforced this idea for me.

Then after about 4 years somebody pointed out that it actually stored your favourites. And that meant you could use them as a kind of bookmark. Well! Who'd have thought? (I don't use Internet Explorer, which is my excuse for not spotting the favourite = bookmark connection.)
The clock is ticking on a time bomb that could blow up a free internet: the TPP
Not everyone, no.
If the government is getting better code and paying less than it otherwise would, I call that doubly a win. I don't think there's anything "illegitimate" about doing it for $1 - if people consider the resume padding to be worth doing the work for, why not let them?
It's sweet that you think students get what their parents pay for. No. The briefest of glances lets you know exactly what Dartmouth instructed their architect to aim for: capacity.

The real reason it looks so poor is —as I did say before— their respective aesthetic aims. Dartmouth wanted something that looked New Englandy that holds dozens of students, while the bank wanted something that makes them look like they have all the money.
Honestly, depending on your age, that still could be “golden” — I’m 31, I’ve taken very good care of my hearing, I’m very acutely aware of audio subtleties, and my hearing range tops out around 16.5KHz. The so-called standard upper limit of 20KHz really only applies to young children, which is why CD audio being able to reproduce frequencies of 22.05KHz is already beyond ideal, and calls for 48! no, 96!, no, 192! (or higher) is literally insane for playback.
I do what he does. I see something interesting about design or development posted by someone else, I'll favorite it so I can find it easier later, not to endorse it (although usually I would endorse that it's worth checking out).

That being said, I've used 'like's' in that way too, so I don't particularly care about this change.
To put it in terms that match our political realities, no one will see your dick provided you take exceptional care to not expose your dick for even the slightest second, otherwise, there are too many people watching to make a guarantee.
Maybe, and I don't claim to have a design in mind for this, but maybe we could start to see the functions of different social networks integrated with every piece of content on the Internet. We don't have to immediately post or share the piece (even if an article has Facebook share buttons I copy and paste the link anyway).

An upvote and a like and a favorite (heart?) all serve different needs across networks, but they generally mean the same thing within a network.

I think for a system like this to make sense, there should be some amount of conditioning. On HN, for example, I abhor downvotes without context, especially when it's clear that the downvote is more an expression of disagreement rather than an indication that the comment detrimented the conversation.
posted earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502910
No radio signals detected from anomalous star KIC 8462852
I believe that the assertion in your first sentence is false, partly from memory, as a compiler person, but then I looked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors
The Console Wars: An In-Depth Architectural Study
For a properly dithered recording, bit depth is exactly equivalent to noise floor. If low-volume details are lost in 16 bit recordings it is because their volume falls near or below the noise floor imposed by the 16 bit recording. 16 bits is good enough because the noise floor is low enough to be imperceptible to a human, if the gain of the recording is such that the full dynamic range available is used
If that's what you take from it, then it looks like we're done here.
stealing brick buildings

This sounds totally bananas, where is this? Are the bricks made of gold or something?
Show HN: SwiftyRSA
Are you talking about digital low-pass filters? In the event that they are using one that benefits from a higher sampling rate, they could upsample before applying. Or just use a better low-pass filter implementation.
These hyperbolic headlines do more harm than good. Disappointed whenever I see the Grauniad following this trend.
What Twitter is lacking more succinctly is a thought pg expressed when talking about startups:

Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.

Twitter's strategy is to have lots of people to like it rather than to have a smaller group love it.
They are also in the food delivery business

https://www.trycaviar.com/about-us
When I favorite my banking website, a notification isn't sent to the website telling them I favorited them, nor are my browser favorites public for anyone to see. The semantics, and thus the meaning, are totally different.

Chrome doesn't even use the term favorites. It uses the (more accurate, imo) term bookmarks.
It's unlikely survivor bias - Montreal is full of really shitty build "plexes" for example. They are not falling apart - there is a 'brick works' for them - remove whole brick facade and redo it again. Those "plexes" are rarely torn down in fact. At the same time bank buildings on the same street are very sturdy and never seen 'brick works' since the birth. I tend to think 'plexes' used to be cheap [and crap] and banks, factories [but not schools!] are expensive and good. Construction errors on those 'plexes' are abundant and repeated over and over in today's plexes, yet those are OK with building codes.
> It's rare to see anyone favoriting a tweet to "reference" it later.

A lot of broad statements being thrown around by both the author of this article and the people in this thread. I used favorites in exactly this way, and I'm not a marketer.
In most cases, these taxes are per-passenger landing fees charged by various international airports/nationalities to cover the costs of Customs and terminal operations. They have no bearing on the actual ticket cost, i.e. they are the same for a $15 ticket as for a $1500 ticket.
You can find the argument in the article. If you want to spy for Russia, you don't do it by dumping a bucketload of articles to a guy living in Brazil writing for the Guardian.

Theres no value in the press for Russia.
Independent bookstore fan showrooms Amazon Books
The Life and Creativity of a Great Bethesda Artist
Satellite navigation is limited to approximately +/- 2 meters accuracy (without the benefit of a DGPS ground station). Even with a 20 Hz update rate, that's too much for IMU dead reckoning to compensate for. It's simply not good enough for navigating at anything but large scale. Fully autonomous model aircraft will need to use simultaneous localization and mapping (LIDAR or depth cameras) in order to do anything interesting. Right now that hardware is heavy and the processing power needed to do it in real time is significant. Maybe some day you'll be able to install an app on your quadrotor and have it follow you around like a dog, but right now that's not realistic.
I think you're on the right track but your comparison fails to take into account the productivity of the bricklayer. A good bricklayer today ought to be more productive than an 1891 bricklayer, because he has motorized mixers, vehicles to move bricks to the right place, laser lines to level his rows, etc. Even in a craft that seems legendarily nontechnical, you have to give some credit to technological advancement. But it's still probably not enough to fully compensate for the 75% increase in labor cost.
heh idk, better to ask someone on the ietf wg or :mcmanus. I've been walking around pronouncing it "brahtlee" but I could be wrong.
See http://www.ampnet.co.uk/femorabilia/pee_standing.html
> This being said selecting urinals as a comparison to enterprise mobile UX/UP patterns is a bit off-putting, sexist and simply unprofessional.

You must be great fun at parties.
A realisation I just had: Twitter and Tumblr are similar in many respects. Both are microblogging (though the former more micro) services, both are interest-based networks, both work fairly similarly (retweets/posts, hashtags/tags, etc.). The demographics are different (Twitter's is broader than Tumblr's, which is largely just young people), but they're not fundamentally different services.

Yet their corporate masters differ. Tumblr, the company, totally gets Tumblr, the community. They understand why the site is popular, what people want. Twitter, though, believes it is Facebook.
It's also interesting to see 2x4s that are actually 2 inches by 4 inches
I dunno, there's a lot of cheap 1880s "workers cottages" around here which have nonetheless been built with a lot more style and care than the average new building.
But you are now confusing tobacco with nicotine. The harm of tobacco is not driven by nicotine, even if the addictiveness is.

Further, while the addictiveness of tobacco is primarily driven by nicotine, it is enhanced by MAOIs in tobacco as well by other substances: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/toba...

Therefore the chart you link is not really that valid in terms of nicotine vs caffeine.

In fact - many people who switch from tobacco to vaping report that it is a difficult switch. Part of it is that the act of vaping isn't the act of smoking, and it's a habit replacement problem. But other parts of that can easily be explained by the MAOIs (more studies are required of course). The other thing reported often, by people who switch to vaping then successfully quit all nicotine is that it's easier to quit vaping than it is to quit tobacco directly - this is probably due to just nicotine vs nicotine+ in tobacco.

Finally - it is very hard to find studies on nicotine addiction independent of tobacco use. Seriously, until very recently, the way to get nicotine was via tobacco, so almost all claims about nicotine use are about tobacco use in general. The chemical pathways are understood, but the effects of just nicotine on long term dependence are all in the context of tobacco. Conversely the page on caffeine in wikipedia - under the heading "Reinforcement disorders" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Reinforcement_disorde... ) does discuss that the claims of caffeine not being addictive are pretty contested.

Basically your points about nicotine are not quite as solid as you claim.
I really do hesitate to say this, but this looks an awful lot like IRC.

Twitter itself reminds me a lot of IRC actually, albeit with a fancy interface draped over it and a a low character limit.
Sorry but I try out servo EVERY day and it will take a long time until this will be stable.

It's not ACID1, ACID2, ACID3 compliant. It misses a lot of CSS2.1, CSS3 and JavaScript feature's.
Static sites working better and better (and are way way faster than firefox).

However I think that servo is the right step, however I just think that it should have more people so that the Innovation could be faster.
Facebook censoring links to tsu.co and Xeni Jardins blog post about it
TextSecure used to be on F-droid, but Moxie wanted them to take it down, because it was not him signing the packages (a disadvantage to Google Play).
That's your processing overhead, you can mess with the sound a lot more at 96k before you hear audio issues.

The difference you hear is the difference between flac's lossless format and mp3's lossy format it has nothing to do with 16 bit versus 24 bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter's_Seminary,_Cardross

It's a beautiful ruin, but it seems never to have been a properly functioning building. Artistic success, total waste of resources for church that built it.
My very first mentor responded to me calling something "just a stupid bug" by saying "Almost all bugs are stupid." His point was that even the most talented programmers will make stupid mistakes and stupid bugs are capable of passing through large levels of code review.

Things like inverting the logic in one case of a complex conditional, or copy paste bugs like:

z1 = x1 + y1;
z2 = x2 + y2;
z3 = x3 + y1;

Are very hard to see. We have lint tools to catch a lot of them (e.g. a single '=' in a conditional), but at some point the tool lacks sufficient semantic understanding to catch everything.
Docker Overlay Networks: That Was Easy
Why are you using a picture of Sam Soffes (@soffes) for a review by "Jon Stein"? Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7P5BE2H.png
> Many users will use these buttons to express agreement or disagreement, even though that is explicitly wrong as defined by the owners of the site.

Interestingly enough, downvoting to express disagreement is not against the hacker news guidelines[1].

A few subreddits I visit pop up a message right next to the comment when you downvote it, saying you should only do so when it does not contribute to the discussion. I think that's a pretty good solution for educating users about the intended purpose of downvoting. I also think HN's idea of only letting older users downvote is a healthy idea.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
TPP is no double political union instead of economical partners.