skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make some great points here, but I have a few nitpicks:

- We do have more advanced plumbing now. A lot of new houses are being built with PEX tubing, where the tubing is flexible and snaps together, instead of needing to be soldered or glued.

- What would be better than gypsum wallboard? It's dirt-cheap, not that expensive for labor, and people like the way it looks when painted. It also has reasonable insulation value. You could have concrete walls I guess, but I think that would be a lot more expensive, plus it's pretty hard to modify wiring if it's cast in concrete. Personally I think it'd be cool to have walls that are easy to take apart so you can modify the wiring behind them without having to do drywall work and painting, but there's no easy way to do that while having the smooth, painted wall look we enjoy now. The wooden paneling thing would work here, but went out of style decades ago along with shag carpets.

48VDC power outlets? What is the value here? Higher voltage is better for lower losses; it'd be better if we moved to 220VAC like the Europeans have, simply because of lower losses. And adapting appliances would be easy. 48VDC would require completely changing everything, for no real benefit except maybe lower shock hazard. GFCI outlets have mostly solved that problem.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people actually do have composting toilets these days; I don't think they're prevented by code. I've heard of people having them in basement bathrooms, so they don't need to add in expensive pump systems (as they would need to pump the toilet drain pipe's output up to the sewer level). The reason they're not more popular is because they smell (even if just a little) and require maintenance. Not many people really want to deal with that, they just want to flush their toilet and never see their poop again.

What would the benefit of centralized fiber-optic building lighting be? It sounds like a lot of labor cost, to deal with the fiber (which can't be bent in tight corners). Modern LED lighting has rendered this idea completely obsolete IMO. It's simple and cheap and completely compatible with existing Edison sockets. Heck, they're even making fluorescent replacement fixtures now (LED tubes which replace fluorescent tubes), so you're not limited to Edison socket stuff either. LEDs have completely revolutionized lighting; just look at cars now. You don't need to generate light centrally when you can cheaply generate it anywhere you want with LEDs. This sounds like a pie-in-the-sky idea from the 80s.

The main problem I see with building codes is the structure: wood isn't the greatest structural material for many reasons. However, there is more and more steel-frame housing being built, thanks to the lessons learned from commercial building where steel is king. Steel has huge advantages over wood: you can have much longer unsupported spans, and assembly time is shorter because the steel girders just bolt together on-site. As lumber has gotten more expensive, steel has become cost-competitive. Also, steel frames generally make for significantly thicker walls, which gives you better insulation.
I suppose it's the annotations being presented on your site to give it an undeserved sense of legitimacy; instead of a detractor otherwise of no consequence complaining on their own blog there is a detractor getting real estate alongside your content.

It's a blurry line for sure, but I think the motivation of silencing the 'riff-raff' is understandable.
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Damn, I downvoted before I realized this was a joke. Well played.
I don't believe so....
That is a difficult problem to solve. How do you differentiate between genuine (even if self-interested) self expression and 'advertisement'?

If I think I make really muffins and I want everyone to know is that advertisement and is it a bad thing? Of course, I love my muffins so much that I want everyone to have them so I'm going to have to start charging, because the best way to get as many people to try them is to do it full time. And of course at some point I'm going to have to hire other people and teach them to make the muffins for me because one man can only make so many muffins. I'll probably have to incorporate and buy a muffin factory. And I'm much better with muffins than I am with words so actually the proclamations of my muffin's superiority are going to be designed by a professional.

I actually don't have a way with words so I'm not sure how to wrap this up but it's a piece of my perspective either way.
I really like this idea. Please re-post as-is on April 2nd.
I see your point but I think the point of the checklist is that only a system that requires the checklist to be followed properly actually qualifies. Without the checklist as the connection between the nurses and the doctors we would still have problems with consultants standing on their dignity and the nurses unable to do anything about it.
Copying & Pasting code is not innovation. It worked when they copied and pasted myspace but that will eventually stop working for facebook.
"Brogrammer"? Where did that come from?
I saw this last night while on a call with a friend. I emailed him and asked him to reply and saw that I didn't get the reply, and we both agreed that this was a spectacularly bad idea. About an hour later I saw my wife hovering over the mic drop button and warned her that she probably didn't want to use it. I love that Google's brand is fun and whimsical, but there are some things that are not OK for such a critical service. It's like if the electric company sent a signal down the wire on July 4th to make every AC motor start humming the national anthem.
Is it April 1st already?
Yes, Modern Perl is awesome.

Mojolicious, Moose, cpanm, etc make for a really sweet async backend for a web project while the async frameworks allow for realizing fun cli projects.

Also, the systems level abstraction layer and text processing capabilities is an amazingly relevant way to write portable and useful apps.

The CPAN has decades of cool stuff.
Any proof of work concept again is just a cookie – because the proof I present will be the same.
Yawn. Another April Fools joke. I wonder how much this cost Google.
There's a book "The Checklist Manifesto" which describes this practice - a great, fast read.
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I agree that FB and Instagram have gone downhill as they ramped advertising, but isn't that a well-understood part of the story?

My solution is to use them less.
I can imagine reasons a few right away that he would think that:

* housing cost is generally higher in Canada, except maybe if you're comparing to the Bay Area in which case it's a wash

* cars cost a LOT more in Canada (as does everything else)

* tech salaries are a lot lower in Canada

* taxes are generally higher in Canada (plus the huge VAT for sales)
An "idea" isn't worth much. I have lots of "ideas" but would take time to figure out if any of them are viable. Quitting my job to focus on any of my ideas full time would be financial and personal suicide in all but the very unlikeliest of cases. Given enough personal time I might be able to figure out if an idea is worth betting it all on.
Happy April 1st :)
2k too ACLU? Ask your friend to send you scans of the evidence, and do a good thing!
I might buy one.
It's very common with "Close companies" (companies that are owned and run by a small number of people) that banks require the directors/owners to act as a personal guarantor on company loans.

Without that, it would be quite legal for the directors to take a whopping loan, pay themselves a whopping salary/bonus, then have the company go bankrupt without recourse to the bank. Rinse, repeat, profit.
Goddamnit I was so convinced...
Indeed, if we're going to hold up Haskell as an exemplar of simplicity—which, in its philosophy if not always in its implementation, I think it is—then we can hardly ding Perl for including lazy lists!
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it was amazing in Erlang years ago, where it was probably borrowed from, as well as Elixir today lol http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/pattern-matching.html
April Fool stuff indeed....
Hi Sam,

I cannot take acquisition notices seriously unless they are posted on Medium. Please repost there, thanks.
I'm getting

"Attackers might be trying to steal your information from blog.torproject.org (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID"

When trying to visit this blog post.
"*Sequoia LPs will have 30 days to export their data." That's a very good punchline.

It's one of those days when everyone gets to express their ambition under the veil of prank. ;-)
The phrase "incredible journey" is often used by startups when they get acquired, especially when the acquisition also means shuttering the product or service. People like to joke because of how often that phrase is used.

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
double take was had.
Ok then, where's your Silicon Valley? Where are your world-leading tech companies? Do you have anything at all you can point to as world-leading, like we do with Google, Amazon, Intel, etc.?

Hey, if you're happy being a backwater full of degreed people who don't actually produce anything that anyone's ever heard of, that's fine. If you enjoy having Silicon Valley-level housing prices but no Silicon Valley-level jobs or economy, that's fine too.
Like I said, I used to think this way until I realized there are things simply beyond my limited frame of reference that I am not prepared to understand yet.

I completely disagree with your point about slave labor. If I have been in an industry for a decade and want things done a certain way because of my much deeper understanding, which a newer employee won't appreciate, I don't need to quantify why to my employees and it's very unhealthy for them to presume that they are even capable of understanding everything at play without the prerequisite experience.

I am not talking about an arbitrary middle manager getting hung up on minutia for his own ego powertrip. I am talking about how being in the office on time, how you dress and behave has deep influence on others and the team, culture, ambiance and work environment with profound impacts a single employee can't see, and is perfectly reasonable for a boss to want to control.

This idea that following instructions without understanding them not being a prerequisite of an employee is really unhealthy attitude if you want to work for someone else.

I suggest starting your own business and not raising outside money, otherwise you will be a miserable slave in a perfectly functional work environment.
> if you're autistic and can't read body language, assume that nobody wants to talk to you

This is a good point, which is why we exercise judgment. Pretty much all laws are written for an imaginary "average individual" because they cannot possibly account for all the wide diversity of people's mental and physical abilities, but that's why determining whether there's been a violation of the law is entrusted with a person, not an algorithm, who can consider whether there have been extenuating circumstances, and being autistic qualifies. Obviously, many laws aren't meant for people who are unable to comply with them, and every law recognizes that there may be valid reasons for breaking it.
I'm not disputing that either. I'm disputing the specific fact that Prop 13 has driven the simultaneous global increase in property values. You could certainly reduce real estate prices by raising taxes on them - that would just be a one-off drop rather than the continuous increase we've seen.

It's ridiculous to blame foreigners for the NIMBY policies that prevent building enough housing in NYC, SF, Mumbai, etc. If foreigners want to buy lots of housing we should just build more of it and sell to them. Trumpkins should at least aim for consistency, rather than simultaneously complaining when Mexicans sell us things and also complaining when Chinese buy things from us.

Is there anything that those foreigners can do to avoid being blamed for our problems? Let me guess, just pay for the wall?

From your article: “The money coming from China is really helping some projects get literally off the ground, and it’s increasing our housing stock
> My solution is to use them less.

Good point. Probably my problem (I'm the author) was to get too attached to the Medium. I idealized it.
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I do side projects for different reasons: they're a great way to express my creativity.

I can create my very own unique solution to a problem, rather than just being a cog in someone else's machine.

Edit: not that I mind being a cog if I get a paycheck, but it's not as awesome as creating something new

Edit2: and quitting my day job and raising capital would screw everything up for most projects.
Mind sharing the name of that upcoming book?
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That argument only holds true if the person operating the site has no idea at all about the HTTP standards.

* GET requests have to be idempotent.

* Security by Obscurity is not Security.

* Content Scraping is nothing you have to protect against, or should protect against – DRM just does not work.
We have a blog and Sequoia doesn’t. HAHAHAHA
Presumably the FAA would have records of all flights as you have to submit flight plans to ATC. Then they just see how many crashes there were that resulted in loss of life.

I mean, I don't know where I would personally pull those numbers from, myself, but it seems trivial for an Agency to report on.
> ...you can believe whatever the hell you want, as long as you don't impose it on others.

I completely agree, but how far are you will to extend that logic? Because in this specific case the passenger that was asked to move is trying to impose her egalitarian beliefs on those that established the airline's policies for pandering to the orthodox.

I think the best way to correct this sort of stupidity is to let the market handle it, instead of throwing another exception to a basic principle onto the pile: you can believe what you want... unless you operate a business in a specific industry with an employee count greater than X.
I [I'm CloudFlare's CTO] have been engaging with the Tor folks through their Trac interface here for about 6 weeks: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361 and been very open about CloudFlare is addressing this.

My plan is to continue to do so through that ticket as I've made various commitments there (some of which, like whitelisting, we've already rolled out). It's worth reading the entire ticket to get a sense of the conversation. We are in no way finished improving the situation.
> The economy is not a thing that can "strive" for anything.

Of course it can, it's a component of human society, and societies can "strive".

> Rather, the economy is simply the collection of actions taken by people in the market.

Just like actions of individual humans is "simply" result of actions taken by individual neurons.

> Let's ask, why are those economies successful in the first place?

Sure - Ha-Joon Chang was already mentioned, and I wholeheartedly recommend his books. From his perspective, "free trade" is just one possible economic strategy, that is useful on a certain level of economic development.

> That's a bit condescending, don't you think?

Sometimes deservedly so. If I believed in the rationality of the free market, I would be confused by huge valuations of advertising IT companies.

Anyway, I am not really judging those people, I was just making remark that they are criticized. In fact, I am (almost) one of them, I work for large SW company that does IT support software for big corporations like banks. I would probably prefer to improve software for manufacturing, but the truth is, it just doesn't pay that well as this.
And soon Sequoia Combinator will conquer the world!
You know, it's possible that some programmers are not native English speakers and might want Unicode availability in their entity names... you know... since they might not be using the Western American alphabet, and all that.
hint: Thunderbird, K9, Roundcube and Rainloop.
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Rob Spike sounds like his alter ego, where he goes around giving talks on how duck typing is the way to go, and the top goal of a programming should be to express yourself in as few keystrokes as possible.
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> Also, some people were not amused:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1149576

Eek. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Yes, you will. But the point is, with no other information to go on, that is the best option for the website. If you don't want to be challenged constantly, you need to give the website operator some incentive to accept your traffic.
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That looks like it's maybe this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowel_bar_retrofit
>>It seems to be a combination of the Silicon Valley echo chamber + groupthink. They're completely ignorant of any perspective that isn't their own.

This is totally expected when your employees are overwhelmingly in their 20s and have never held a job outside of a tech company in the valley.

My old company was full of developers like that. Fresh out of college, doesn't know how the real world works, yet is expected to develop products for the real world. It was horribly frustrating working with them.
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Browser market share in March 2016
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Anonymity ("privacy") and security are conflicting requirements. Tor users take a legit stance, and would be served an equally legit CAPTCHA (if lucky).
It isn't limited to Google. At the end of 2014 Facebook put this thing in my brother's feed that said "It's been a great year" and then put in post he made right after our mother passed away. I wonder if it's a being young thing too?
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Looks like someone hacked Slashdot, adding “SLASHVERTISEMENT” to Titles
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