skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see private schools with the same disdain as I see bottled water. People drinking bottled water and refusing to drink tap water is our failure whether it be actual investment in water infrastructure or in "optics" of our water infrastructure. People sending their kids to privately managed schools is a failure of our public schools or the "optics" of our public schools.

I remember that I just said the other day that we can train and retrain law enforcement all day long but we won't see any meaningful improvement without enforcement with "teeth" and that unions are actively hurting their members if not because of what they do then because of the "optics" of what they do. I think the same applies for teachers' unions as well.

We talked about the case of interns being fired en masse a little while ago and some of not many people in that discussion agreed that it didn't look good that the interns were riled up over something (dress code) that didn't help the business much. When teachers bring up the issue of low pay, I can't help but feel a lot of parents and voters see it as selfish in the same way. "The teachers should not spend so much time thinking about their own pay but rather about the students and what they can do to help students."

> I think the NAACPs primary agenda here is that they feel Charter schools create a policy "out" for the history of being unwilling to take the steps necessary to make public schools work (and union reform is high on that list).

Absolutely! I kind of want to go back to the topic of tap water versus bottled water. The people who can't afford to buy bottled water are unlikely to have much of a voice in local government to have their issue fixed. The parents who can't get their kids in chartered schools or who don't care enough to get their kids in chartered schools are unlikely to have much of a voice in local government to make public education better either. Now that I think about it, it sounds just like segregation. The only difference is that instead of an official policy, it is a little more latent.
In centuries past, with small experiments, "peer review" actually was replication—your peers would go and do the experiment themselves and confirm your finding.

Insofar as experiments are now too large and costly to allow for "I'll just go check that in my lab tonight"-type replication, peer review is increasingly just a status game.
Not sure I understand the question... are you suggesting the concept of using vetted libraries is somehow faulty? Anyway, the answer is generally "a large community" or "some big company like google or facebook."
That's still not scientific, or pseudo-scientific. I'm starting to wonder if you know what "scientific" even means. What you quoted is a design principle, and just because you may not understand the reason for the principle (which is probably just "houses that violate this are ugly") doesn't make it invalid.
Do you mean ES6 modules?
What does "p.a." mean?
DUB for dlang is heavily inspired by NPM.
> why does it even have to be called 'Jazz'?

* http://www.apassion4jazz.net/etymology.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(word)#Etymology

> But, if I went to a music venue today, and the band was playing Jazz, I'd be bored out of my mind.

Jazz has many flavours that have long walked hand-in-hand with social dancing. Maybe spend a bit more time exploring its depth? Here's a modern rendition of a timeless classic:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxSrF0HYnY

Here's a jazzed-up version of "All About That Bass," also easily danced to:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk

Another classic, "Blue Skies," with some social dancing:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xziwtk1i3A

And one more, showcasing some rather skilled Lindy Hop dancers, a fancy aerial at 1:20, and a modern take on Ellington's "Diga Diga Doo":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9xxeWRxSbA

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3aJ_9IAIjQ (Ellington)

Here's a remake of "When I Get Low, I Get High":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acb-js00c40

> But, does Jazz even make any sense in the modern world?

Yes. Try some different jazz venues and find a style that speaks to you.
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> permit nopass keepenv yourusername

Isn't nopass a bad idea?

Edit: I'm not a BSD user - this is a genuine question, not a complaint.
What a fantastic series. The author really put a lot of work into these. Thank you Frank.
I don't think that one unprovable assertion ("GPLv3 software has never killed anyone") is the best way to combat someone else's unprovable assertion ("our cars would be less secure if everyone could see our code"). The only way to argue against security through obscurity is to argue against security through obscurity, although admittedly that can be tough depending on the audience. Fighting against the status quo is just going to be an uphill battle sometimes, it's the nature of the beast.

This sounds more like a rhetorical device, in which debater #1 has attempted to frame the debate in terms of debater #1 being correct unless debater #2 can prove that they're wrong. Debater #2 then tries to reframe the terms of the debate such that debater #2 is right until proven wrong by debater #1.

In both cases it's more a form of sophistry vs. an opponent than it is a way to make a case to the public. Using a dishonest rhetorical device to counteract someone else's dishonest rhetorical device rubs me the wrong way, because it feels like both sides are trying to twist facts in their favor, and are not in good faith trying convince me that they're right and the other person is wrong. Debater #2 is responding to sophistry with more sophistry, rather than attacking debater #1's sophistry head-on.
I was assuming the bottleneck was protein output, but I cannot find the info in the paper at a glance.
The principle that principles should be culturally universal is very much not culturally universal...
Ah, but other apes can already do many of those things (and some of them better, given that they basically have four "hands" instead of two hands and two feet.)

The question is what forced humans into this particular, odd body-shape that no other ape has. Long-distance running (for "endurance" hunting, where you just tire out the thing you're chasing) has been the hypothesis I've heard the longest, but running and throwing works too.
I find the opposite is true, that cash is liberating.

1. I always know how much cash in in my pocket. I typically carry $30-50 which is plenty for everyday transactions.

2. It's easy to budget with cash. You can never spend more than what you have.

3. I don't have to worry about paying off card balances.

4. The chances of getting a credit / debit card stolen are a lot higher than having my cash stolen, eliminating the hassle of replacing cards.

5. I support my community by eliminating the overhead of accepting cards.

6. I can easily pay individuals instantly without having to worry about what service to use or delays in transferring from my bank to theirs.

7. I maintain my privacy.

I'm not even considering the downsides of using a phone for payments (lost / stolen / broken / dead battery / borked update / bad UIs).

All that said I use a mix of cash and cards. Cards do have a lot of consumer advantages (cash back, disputing transactions, etc). Don't pretend that they're far superior to cash though. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. The loss of privacy is a HUGE problem with electronic payments.
This reminds me of the scene in A Beautiful Mind when they are talking about Game Theory in the context of a group of men approaching a group of women at a bar.
Looks very interesting!
I'm not against using a rule-based language. I disagree with his particular rules.

We are bikeshedding on the word "science" so I regret using that phrase because it diverted the replies from my point. Perhaps it would have been better to say I disagree with his opinion on house design presented as some kind of universal aesthetic. His condescending tone[1] used throughout the article in an attempt to sound "authoritative" seems strange considering many professionally trained architects deliberately design houses with the "voids" and "masses" he dislikes.

In another example he writes, "another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids". For some reason, the author doesn't acknowledge that many classically trained architects will deliberately put in "too many voids" so it brightens the interior of the house with light. The other reason for extensive windows/voids is to provide an expansive view of an outdoor feature such as a lake from inside the house. Smaller windows or no windows as the author advises detracts from these desirable design goals.

[1] e.g. "it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural concepts."
Edward Kmett's talk on Monad Transformer Lenses is wonderful. He manages to pack an overwhelming amount of information into a relatively short period of time, and as a Haskell newbie it points out a lot of facets within the language I didn't know as well as I thought I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxcz23GOJqc
per annum = per year
Investment-wise, everything has ups and downs. The only way to be recession proof is to diversify and periodically reinvest. For example, you could buy a sack of gold coins, but then you'd be subject to the ups and downs of gold's value throughout your lifetime.

Passive-income-wise, market forces will eat away at passive income. Easy ways to make money are copyable; or the customers will catch on and figure out how to lower their expenses and cut you out. (Think about how everyone stopped paying for CDs.) Those who do make passive income keep it a secret because they don't want competition!
Most of the images of Fallingwater on the Internet have so many trees that it's a little bit hard to see the whole structure as an architect would. I found a site though which has photos of an architectural model of it[1] as well as a spinnable 360 view. I would say based on looking at that model that it actually does embody the principles in this post.

The primary mass is formed by the central column and the two main wings that stick out to the sides (primary mass should be evaluated as an artist would, not by simplistically the largest box of the house). It has asymmetry, but it's cohesive, not awkward, asymmetry, and it's definitely balanced. The proportions make sense in the context of the terrain, because the widest portion is drawn along the edge of the hill, melding with the ground, and the bottom portion is filling the gap in the valley. It definitely has rhythm, because all of the balconies and windows are drawn from the same palette, cohesive again.

1: http://architectural-models.com/newsite/galfallwat.html

Edit: I just noticed that model is $61,000!
The customers like those houses. They chose them. Tastes vary. That's life.
The local public service news did a piece on this a while ago and the biggest problem they could envisage was the usability problems. Which is kind of sad, I'm sure most usability issues can be solved one way or the other.

Heres one thing that really should have more focus, remember when visa and mastercard decided to kill allofmp3? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/allofmp3_attacks_vis...
The issue isn't so much the design, but the cultural attitudes towards the upper middle class. Looked down upon by the truly wealthy, and viewed with suspicion and derision by the middle and lower classes. There's a lot of emotional hostility towards the people that buy these houses that spills over into the critiques of the structures themselves.

That said, this person isn't necessarily wrong. Having a lot of visual interest in your home isn't a bad thing, but you have to have visual interest surrounding the home as well. The issue I have with McMansions personally is having a 4000 square foot house on a postage stamp lot looks ridiculous.

I was once told many years ago the following quote: "Rich people have big houses, but wealthy people have land".

4k sq/ft home on 1 acre? Probably not the best looking neighborhood. 4k sq/ft home on 5 acres? Probably a very wealthy, upscale area.
Really quite hard to read based on, I guess, the poor scan quality.. I wonder if there is a better digitized version somewhere
> Also, why a special term? Why not just call them mansions?

Because they do share characteristics distinctive from large homes (e.g. mansions). The wikipedia article takes a nice crack at it, "The term 'McMansion' is generally used to denote a new, or recent, multi-story house of no clear architectural style,[8] which prizes superficial appearance, and sheer size, over quality."

Or in other words, conspicuous consumption without commensurate quality.
You get to explain the rules of the game set in one line:

"Pick 3 cards, such that for none of the properties exactly two are the same."

Not very advanced though.
This really makes me appreciate TeX and friends. Writing equations, while just one of the strengths of TeX, just looks so much better.
A.f.a.i.k. even if everything fails, you can still use the embossing on your card and your non-electronic signature.

I have used in car-rental recently. Not sure if my grocery store would accept this sort of payment though :-/
I just love the name of the company and its perhaps unintended implications.

The Palantiri were seeing stones ... allowing rulers to observe distant events, but ...

The Orthanc-Palantir was used by Sauron (the big bad) to enslave Saruman (the lead Wizard), causing him to betray the forces of good.

So, now we finally see why Thiel (Saruman) endorsed Trump (Sauron).
Useful! I live in a neighborhood of mixed age houses and it is interesting how many of newer houses make me wince. This article helps me understand why. They lack harmony with themselves and their surroundings because of these failings. But here's another thing. I think these criteria (which are based in couple thousand years of western design principles) all fundamentally rely on the restraint of self-expression in favor of impersonal principles. Lots of the asymmetry and weird bulkiness I see around me seems to come with an attitude of 'Hey ma, I'm expressing myself!' Asymmetry is like loud, brash rock music. As I've gotten older I'm bored with a lot of the crudeness that is passed off as self expression and I wish for more restraint. Fat chance, I know.
Charter schools are public schools, just managed by private organizations. And it's not a situation where only rich people can get their kids into charter schools. For example, in D.C. the public schools in rich white neighborhoods (Georgetown, Capitol Hill) are district-run. Charter public schools are concentrated neighborhoods with mostly minority populations.

Nationally, Charters often have comparable proportions (and in some cases, a larger proportion) of students from disadvantaged groups: http://www.publiccharters.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NAP....
Is there an evolutionary story for why T. Rex ended up bipedal with mostly-vestigial forelimbs? It works fine for their ecological niche, but I can't picture the evolutionary intermediates between them and a quadrupedal ancestor.
Makes sense if @ is reflexive, more generally speaking :) I have no problem redefining < to make c < a true, that's just a matter of interpretation
There's Kivy, although it doesn't use the native Android look & feel..
Felt compelled to create an account to describe my experiences with Palantir as well. We tried to engage with them for some threat intel work. They set up an instance for a client and in the course of the engagement:

- they exposed our data to other clients and other clients' data to us by accident

- had significant unplanned downtime

- their platform buckled under relatively small amounts of object graph data

- provided a fat client app that was the most bloated mess of repackaged and unacknowledged open-source JAR files I've ever seen
We Need More Companies Like Theranos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF6SGWRMIYw
>It sounds like designers hating on Comic Sans or programmers arguing over tabs vs spaces

This, basically. I find it darkly humourous that HN's commentariat, in this thread and indeed whenever confronted with domain-specific jargon from non-computron fields [0], analyzes said field and finds 'obvious' problems. Have you ever tried to explain, say, 'tabs vs spaces' to some mundane? Its history, from makefiles to Python, seems uninteresting to someone peering over their iPhone N+1; "why don't you guys just decide on one? Why is this a big deal?" They can say this because 'tabs vs spaces' is a triviality -- to those who don't have to deal with the consequences of the argument.

Inasmuch as HN is explicitly for interesting tidbits of info that don't necessarily have to do with hacker-style nerdery, I'd expect that we who ostensibly know so much would be able to appreciate that there are aspects of the world, and of other intellectual professions, that we don't necessarily wot of.

I mean, unless, of course, one's own buzzsaw-mind is capable of intuiting and then dismissing the well-cited terms of an artisanal field that has been around for many centuries longer than has the idea of computers, but cognitive empathy is a useful practice for everyone.

[0] With the exception of economics, because bike-shedding, because everyone knows about money; they spend it every day!
In Sweden there are the Roma/gypsy population who have smartphones but certainly don't have Swedish bank accounts. This is also true for many expats. Including other Scandinavian nationals.

Americans have an especially tough time finding a bank to open an account due to FBAR and FACTA, treaties signed to combat money laundering and such.

The result is that many bank branches choose to not offer accounts due to the added paperwork.

No bank account. No bankid. Often fewer services available to you.

Note: this is a common criticism for foreign nationals starting up a life in Sweden.
I actually found the article interesting, but you are right that it would improve much if he worked a bit more on these parts. I stopped at exactly the same points.

As to the last point French is a bit more logically spelled than English - even if it is still horrendous.
I think it is always good to know what kind of skills a candidate has besides what will be his average work, but could add to the skill set of the team and might come in handy.

Be that knowledge of data structures, algorithms, ui design, ux, project management or advertisment. Especially in startups where you can't afford dedicated teams for every aspect.

If the team is already strong on the design/ux front, I might favor a candidate with better cs fundamentals. And if my team mostly consists of the latter, I might favor a "worse" programmer but one who knows and cares about typography, color harmony, paper prototyping etc.
But the probabilty of people outside your org looking at your source if it's proprietary is zero. Said probability is nonzero for OSS. So yes, even in a low popularity OS project, there's a higher probability of more people setting eyes on it than proprietary software.
Your comment is a comment of the form "this is an article that has form X "and gives reasons why.

I'm sure you believe it. Everyone always thinks articles that agree with their opinions are superior.

The best way out is not to play. Why have any opinion at all about "articles?"
If Apple has world class crypto people then they had nothing to do with the design of imessage.
It didn't take the attack from Green and Co to see that this crypto design is very strange and doesn't follow any kind of modern best practice. (And no, the fact that it's 5 years old doesn't make things better. "Use an AEAD" and "use PFS" are things that one could've known in 2011.)
PostScript routines written by humans can be pretty easy to read; I will try to dig up some that I wrote a while back.

Machine-generated PostScript is challenging for me to read.

I wonder how efficiency of modern PostScript compares to SVG.
I'd never heard of the tern McMansion before reading the article (I'm from the UK.) These poorly designed houses seem to have huge, vast amounts of land around them. In the UK plots are much smaller. Do you think cheap houses filling large plots is the issue?
I'm almost certain that none of the businesses in Sweden have the machine to make impression / carbons like in the 80s
Didn't know it had already been posted, thanks! I'm answering it now
For general programming questions I found https://www.interviewbit.com/ very good. It is both a tutorial and programming questions at the same time.

I was asked to describe the important properties of a hash map in a telephone interview. The interview contained less technical questions but various developers asked me about all areas of my CV. There was also a HTML/CSS/JS coding exercise to create a small application to a spec that they gave.

So expect to get questions on anything that you've put in your CV. If you're not familiar enough with it - take it out of your CV.
They're deprecating "a xlink:href" and adding "a href". Sounds good to me. I never had any idea why it had to be "a xlink:href" except that this was designed when someone thought XML namespaces were a good idea.
I don't care too much what it looks like on the outside, cause I'll be inside for much more time than i spend looking at the outside.

I had this exact thought. My primary concern about a house is how well the interior has been designed for my needs. The exterior appearance is way down on my list.

Unfortunately the article didn't even mention interior. I've seen a lot of absolutely awful interior floor plans.
> Bad Architecture means the form doesn't function

Well said. This person who wrote this must despise Stewart Brand and his work on How Buildings Learn. Primary vs secondary mass? Voids on the facade? Symmetry? Ha! Brand sees somebody who adds on a new room on the side of their house because they want a workshop as a wonderful thing. I don't think he ever scolded anybody about maintaining symmetry or mass.
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Come on, you know that was funny.

But, my point is that when I watch those videos, I see people trying to avoid modern reality - trying to portal back to a different time. It looks like escapism, avoidance, or maybe looking for acceptance from their elders. Or, maybe that's just me.
Test Driven Development with Apache Spark
Mission 'More Social'
Yes, at this time the main site at https://hyperrr.co is just download links essentially. The actual description and overview is at http://community.hyperrr.co/t/quick-introduction-to-hyper/29.

Eventually the two will get merged but it will take some time to figure out the right copy.
> I disagree with his pseudo-scientific criteria of "voids" and "secondary mass" that he applied to the various houses.

At least he didn't drag out the golden ratio.
> Most people in most startups are not "working on what they want to work on" they are working on what their boss wants them to work on.

That's a rather naive statement. should be: s/startups/organizations/g
In addition to newer regulations aimed at exclusion. After a burst of new development of upper-middle-class homes in my town, the new residents voted in a new mayor and aldermen, and the new leadership passed a law preventing the construction of any home within city limits of less than 2000 square feet. The old part of the city would be mostly illegal to build under current regulations.
It certainly doesn't help, but there are plenty of packed-in developments with similar issues. In fact I would say that the platonic American McMansion is on a fairly small plot of land and is built up absurdly close to the property line.
Horses and cheetahs both seem to do fine, and much better than humans.

Also, the human body-plan seems set up such that a running human has dynamic instability: we run "better" by pumping our arms around, keeping balance with the shifting mass rather than purely relying on our legs to do that job.
It's great to hear how you are using Swift. I work on that project; feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Contact info is in my profile.
Same with F# and Fable.