skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://lolcats.com - the original meme website
What do you mean by "preferences"? Buyers have no choice...builders are plopping out these communities in one fell swoop, buyers have no input. When you buy in a KB, Toll Brothers etc community, you get to buy design A, B or C. Buyer tastes are dictated to them. Custom building in new developments is extremely rare.
Similar to the concept of the Persian Palace in the areas I grew up - build quality was quite high in those cases, but as much of the lot as zoning rules allowed was used for two stories of house.
One of the reasons the web has succeeded so much more broadly than other UI toolkits, like Windows.Forms or Cocoa is that the web is very underspecified. The lack of a comprehensive framework has led to a proliferation of frameworks, each with different strengths and weaknesses. Competition between these has created thousands upon thousands of tools optimized for very specific use cases.

Because there are strong standards on a platform like iOS, you see almost no competition in many parts of the stack, and so that platform is limited by Apple's developer resources and constrained by the necessity of designing the architecture for the lowest common denominator.

The general philosophy in web standards groups has been to start by providing the simplest possible API that will give developers access to the functionality they need, allow developers to build frameworks on top of that. And then as common use cases emerge, back port the most widely used features into the API.
A few years ago in my area, some kid was chased by the local sheriff for driving an ATV on he road.

He drove into some subdivision of $500k homes, wiped out, and the ATV rolled into the side of a house that had no windows. He impact disrupted the glue and be whole side of the house (plywood, sheeting, siding) just fell off!
Yeah, but it's still interesting that there exists an "Eve" connecting any two entirely different organisms.
"There are almost as many definitions of deserts and classification systems as there are deserts in the world. Most classifications rely on some combination of the number of days of rainfall, the total amount of annual rainfall, temperature, humidity, or other factors. In 1953, Peveril Meigs divided desert regions on Earth into three categories according to the amount of precipitation they received. In this now widely accepted system, extremely arid lands have at least 12 consecutive months without rainfall, arid lands have less than 250 millimeters of annual rainfall, and semiarid lands have a mean annual precipitation of between 250 and 500 millimeters. Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes"

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/what/

As I understand it Carberry gets 300-500 mm of rain per year.
Related: Ugly Belgian Houses

http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/

Doesn't try explaining anything though.
As per HN guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

Discussion of original source (the Washington Post interview):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286260
RCE in Teamspeak 3 server
Yeah there are lots of different interfaces for each PMS. For example take Opera by Micros Fidelio. They would one interface for phone billing, one interface for mini bar billing, one interface for GDS, for POS, for in room entertainment, for phone maintenance (enabling disabling n room sphones etc), for in wifi billing etc etc etc. So Basically one PMS will have multiple interfaces each for specific purposes. I have no idea what solution you are thinking about but lets say you were thinking of providing wifi to a hotel chain(for the purposes of our example). Now the hotel chain use Opera as their PMS. So you get the spec for that specific wifi billing interface. Then you pay them for the access to the interface and a test system and then you would write your code to enable your system to communicate to that interface. It all goes thru their testing in their mothership and its either approved or denied etc etc etc. Its a slow. process.

Not sure if this is any help to you. I understand why you might be apprehensive about giving more specific details in your scenario but without that Its hard for me to be more specific and hopefully more helpful in my answers.
Just a note: systems engineering at NASA has it's own internal definition that is closer to a management role than a technical one. Source: am NASA engineer.
I'm addressing my own observations, I don't care what the author thinks.
But with Common Lisp, you don't get the safety of strong static types. If the compiler can prove that there's a type error, it will throw an error. That's not the same as throwing a type error when the compiler can't prove that there isn't a type error, as a sound type system would.

Even worse, Common Lisp will use your type annotations to optimize code, which can change the behavior of your program. It's better to think of them as type hints for optimization than to think of them as optional static types.
Honestly, what could be the NBT in consumer tech ? I feel we reached cultural and ontological plateau in most areas. If there's a next it probably won't be a big thing.
Calling it class signaling strikes me as an effective way to silence debate of architectural principles which you disagree with.
In Tim Cook, it's interesting to see a leadership style that's so different from the Jobs/Ellison mold. Cook seems to have a very humble manner, and he emphasizes listening to and learning from people both inside and outside Apple.

In the startup world, I wonder whether founders can find success in emulating Cook -- or whether a harder-edged, harder-driving style is required.
The modern home's interior spaces are even more abusive of the client's reasonable desires as opposed to a rational integration of these desires into a whole. I toured a development's model homes at the beginning of the current big-screen TV era. I looked in vain for a place on a wall that could hold a 55-inch flat screen. I did find a cubbie hole near the dining table that was described as intended for a 32-inch tube TV. And if you own several paintings, better board up several windows.
I can't believe how many typos there were in this article, do editors exist anymore?
Docker doesn't work if you don't have root.
http://www.magentoreporting.com

struggling to scale sales, i'm more of a product and development guy
What a load of bollox!
Also, Linux emulation is probably a lot easier to implement, since there is complete source code access available. Emulating the Win32/NT kernel syscalls is basically reverse engineering, which makes the progress much harder.
I offer an alternative conjecture: most people have poor taste. The majority taste is therefore generally condemned by people who actually know what they're talking about.

An alternative to your alternative: not everyone shares the same values as you, and there is no objective basis to say that your values are more important than theirs.
I owned a home with a lift (previous owner was a classic car nut, I never used it)...but we lived in an unincorporated part of the Bay Area...in most city zoning, lifts are disallowed by residential zoning code.
Right or you could have a "developer" tinker with stuff and that's how wind up with things like redux
Sdl-gpu: A library for high-performance, modern 2D graphics with SDL
I am no architect, but based on the definitions of the article this building has no symmetry or balance whatsoever,
and secondary masses dominate the primary masses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House#/media/File...

Or then I just misunderstood the article completely.
Sometimes people do a better job explaining why you should care about X even if it's not something you'd normally care about. (There probably are some good reasons why so-called McMansions are interesting, but these aesthetic concerns aren't really doing it for me.)
Maybe the reasoning is backwards? Given 4 limbs, how else would you layout an upright walking creature?

The same across-the-chest muscle setup that makes us good at throwing also allows us to throw an effective punch.

"push against the ground with your feet to exert significant force using your hand" must have many, many uses.
Considering an acre is over 43,000 square feet, I would say 4K square foot house on 1 acre is pretty reasonable.
If you carefully read the paper, you'll see that the exploit for this attack is a lot more interesting than its implications.

The underlying flaw here is very simple: the iMessage protocol doesn't properly authenticate messages. In a fashion somewhat similar to that of memory corruption vulnerabilities inevitably leading to code execution, message integrity vulnerabilities seem to inevitably result in losses of confidentiality (this is counterintuitive but well-studied). That's essentially what's happening here.

Backwards compatibility issues prevent Apple from simply fixing the protocol, and they've instead had to deploy tactical countermeasures to kill the exploit, but in the medium term one expects they'll simply revise the protocol. So this is basically a dead bug.

The exploit, though, is ridiculous!

iMessage messages are DEFLATE compressed. So when you're using bit-flipping attacks to convince the protocol to reveal plaintext bits, you're not XOR-ing plaintext, but rather compressed plaintext. Among the problems this creates for attackers:

* Whatever the result of your bit-flips are, they have to result in valid Huffman symbols.

* The resulting stream of Huffman symbols has to pass the DEFLATE CRC.

* You have to know what the Huffman table is for the message.

The exploit plays tricks to get past all these hurdles --- the trick for the last one is particularly nice.

I'm less interested in what this says about iMessage security. You should be using Signal, or even WhatsApp, in preference to iMessage (though iMessage even in its vulnerable state was more than secure enough to handle routine financial information; this attack is very painful to carry out). I'm much more interested in attacks like this as a blueprint for future attacks against other complicated protocols.
Any organization which still refers to people of African and Middle Eastern descent as "colored people" should come under scrutiny before any of their causes are taken seriously.
Why do people replace transparent English phrases with opaque foreign abbreviations? We're not writing with quills on vellum anymore.

Even "$500k/yr" is an improvement on "$500k p.a.".
Also ugly croatian houses fb page
https://www.facebook.com/UglyCroatianHouse
Provider of Personal Finance Tools Tracks Cards, Sells Data to Investors (2015)
> The lack of balance, proportion, controlling lines[1] and symmetry are all bad aspects of nearly all modern (in the chronological sense) architecture, not simply McMansions.

Postmodern architecture is surely a controversial topic on its own, but I believe the issues with McMansions raised in the article is their amateurish mimicry of canonical architectural styles.
They throw in a column here, a bay window there, without understanding the why or how of these design features in context.
As someone else in the thread mentioned, its like a bad machine learning-generated version of the traditional architectural styles.
Baker-Miller Pink
Did this make surviving silver coins more valuable for their rarity?

I remember my dad sold his collection for the metal value back then.
Among other things the reason I quit facebook is because of people who have no problem trading my information for their gain. I got tired of blocking requests from an aunt addicted to farmville, for instance. She's exactly who I had in mind when I said people will subvert controls I put in place for their own benefit. She'd happily click a button that downloaded all my data shared to her with Facebook if it meant an extra in game reward. But do I want to block her from all my updates? Not really. However given the choice of doing that and sharing my data I quite facebook. I realize not everyone is the same.
I forgot they tried CFAA. Good point. Here's what I was referring to:

https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-seven-years-u...

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
"Activits"? Some kind of health supplement, I guess?
For that, I've been looking into freeposte.io, so I can hop onto the container-train at the same time.
Thank you. Forest plantations in arid zones are tricky thing. I know that, because I studied that topic for about a year. Expensive too. I wish them 100 years of piece and prosperity to complete that, and will gladly assist, if invited.
Ad Hominem attacks like this add very little value to the discussion.
"science of morality"? sigh...
Or maybe this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guggenheim-bilbao-ja...
I feel wearables - IoT could be the next big thing (...who isn't saying this...).

Putting privacy concerns aside, imagine having contact lenses + voice and/or gesture control augmenting your life. Combine that with real-time health monitoring, all powered by your blood glucose.

That's hinging on still quite a lot of big technologies delivering and becoming mass-consumerable, but that is one way in which I can see technology and connectivity being taken to the next level in a similar sense that smartphones did.

Note: I am not particularly pro IoT nor wearables, but can see this becoming a thing in the future.
I don't know anything about architecture, but I know I dislike houses where it seems like the architect had just recently discovered the "extrude" tool and was picking all sorts of random things to pull out an extra three feet.
Oh c'mon. Everything's "product".

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... yes, I'm agreeing with you. And cringing as I remember a visit to a friend who'd taken up wine cellaring some years back, describing various vintages as "product". You'll hear that in media, app design, clothing, food, restuarants. Pretty much everything. MBA-speak gone mad.
There are several problems that are conflated.

Schools are being used to:

* Warehouse children while their guardian(s) work.

* Train young animals that they are more than wild animals.

* Educate children so that they can be functional in society.

* Allow society to examine children it's members are raising to make sure that things are going well.

The problem is a lack of recognition that these are the actual tasks being formed and the lack of positive feedback loops designed to promote success in these tasks.

I think it would also help if 'schools' were more like an MMO-RPG quest/leveling system than an assembly line.
I am absolutely incapable of working for most companies, because of corporate bullshit. I much prefer being an entrepreneur, making money online / building great products / dealing with customers. Occasional consulting is doable, because you're usually dealing with decision makers, who cut through the bullshit.
> and partly because billionaires get less than zero sympathy if they talk about having difficult lives

That quote from the essay reminds me of a Silicon Valley scene [1] where the CEO of the pseudo-Google company in the show gets vilified (rightfully so in the show) for complaining about how hard billionaires have it in this country.

I bet the creator's read PG's essay and were inspired by it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4
That's part of what makes the Nobel Prize interesting and unique. you technically only need a single paper to win it
Red herring. It will still be a felony and people will still go to jail over it. Most might get away with it. Might given increasing surveillance state with commercial and government partnerships. Regardless, buyers need to pick suppliers who voluntarily eliminate that risk with proper licensing unless they want to risk jail time. They should not trust anything less in a license given precedents so far.
No, you're right. The Opera House is a visual disaster.
Ed Catmull, Pixar-Disney President interview
I'm saying I wouldn't have noticed any problems on my own, but I agree that the authors examples of what he considers good look nicer than the examples of what he considers bad. The house with lots of windows looks particularly unpleasant to me, but I normally wouldn't stop to notice or care because I'm not an artist or anything like that. I hope that's more clear.
You are right that a lot of math is pretty inaccessible to the mainstream, but so is a lot of music. Sure, an average person can nod their head at the beauty of a Bach piece just as they might marvel at an (to them) unintelligible equation, but just as they do not understand the higher math they may also lack an understanding of counterpoint, canon in inversion, fugue, etc.

Likewise for avant garde cinema, modern art, poetry, and more!
I think you misunderstood the article completely.
I've seen plenty of badly software architecture that meets the functional spec, and vice versa. Abstract theory let's us understand what ideal solutions look like, providing a framework to consciously manage form vs function in a resource-constrained world.
Isn't there likely a selection bias with the best students more likely to be in a charter school, thus making the school's performance metrics better than district schools?
Yes. I just noted following sentence:

"These same principles do not always apply to Modernist or even canonically Postmodern architecture. These principles are for the classical or traditional architecture most residential homes are modeled after."
There is another source of animosity, which is by progressives whose ideology states that White middle class culture is qualitatively different to other cultures. While one might talk about Chinese culture or Jewish culture or Moroccan culture, when it comes to White culture the claim is either (1) that it does not exist (the bailey argument[0]) or (2) that unlike all other cultures in the world, it is not a genuine culture but a social construct designed to oppress people who aren't White and middle/upper class [1] (the motte argument[0]).

So when middle class White people create distinctive houses, in this worldview it must be an expression of either their oppressive role in society, or the shallowness of their cultural roots.

[0] as in the "motte and bailey" argument, see http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...

[1] e.g. "Whiteness is not a culture... Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it." in http://racetraitor.org/abolishthepoint.html
I think the picture you posted is of the side of the building. This would be the facade, which looks pretty balanced to me:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CgY4n5BsK9o/VafsZ-ccfcI/AAAAAAAAVS...
Add to IPsec the fact that it was cryptography developed under US export
restrictions. This is probably the reason why it has AH for data integrity and
ESP for data protection and/or, well, integrity, rendering AH actually
excessive.

> Until now, OpenVPN has prevailed.

Which is somewhat funny, as FreeS/WAN derivatives are much more convenient to
configure than OpenVPN with its tons of options that you need to put either on
server side or client side (and those differ greatly) and routing that is
very, very easy to screw up.

Also, I always say that OpenVPN is a weird case of a program open source from
the ground up that has a closed communication protocol. No specification and
extracting the protocol from the source is difficult in this case.
> I can't think of many tasty animals that man can actually keep up with

"Long-distance" doesn't have to imply "in a straight line", keep in mind. If we can herd prey in arbitrary directions, we can have other members of our tribe stationed where we're herding them, turning the marathon into either a pincer trap or a relay race.
Would the amaturish aping of a high modernist style be better?

The aping of traditional style is the most forgivable aspect of McMansions. At least they are trying to connect with the timeless way of building, however incompetently.
"The thing is, almost nobody is using SVGs on the Web."

I disagree.

I regularly visit codrops and they show a lot of cases how you can use them. A lot of the frontend web development is using them a lot.

http://www.ns.nl/ the dutch train company, for example uses a mix of inline svg, background image svg and scr tags with svgs.

https://www.spotify.com/nl/ uses SVG in the logo, the account icon and the arrows.

https://www.digitalocean.com/ svg is best practise for having vector images on your site.

The nice thing of SVG is the compatibility with css, for the web it is a nice tool to use.
The McMansions showcased in the articles are well beyond cramming anything (they are huge) and does not look like the kind of house where the owners would appreciate having 12 other houses looking the same as neighbours. Indeed, as soon as you're stamping out houses, you'll want to hire a real architect to make them appealing to as many people as possible, which means balanced, proportioned and symmetric (if unoriginal, but that's not what the article is about).

If anything, the absurdness of McMansions appears to be driven by a desire to be fancier than anything anyone has seen anywhere else.
Origin of Catastrophes (Sci-fi based on real events)
Apple has a huge amount of brand loyalty. It's stunning to watch people explain away Apple's failure to refresh their hardware line sooner. They get a lot of latitude from their very loyal customers. Combined with their high margins and practices to protect same (soldered on memory and storage, license restrictions for non-apple hardware, killing their clone market) I'm literally not a buyer. Which is decidedly a minority opinion here on HN.
Interesting!

I looked into bsdiff, and apparently it internally uses bzip2 for compression of several components independently. As a quick hack, I modified it to output all those pieces uncompressed (producing a large file of mostly 0s), and then tried compressing the result with various compressors, both to test other compressors, and to compress the entire file as one unit rather than as separate components.

The result ("ubsdiff" is bsdiff without compression):

85659 jquery-2.2.3.min.js
85578 jquery-2.2.4.min.js
376 jquery.bsdiff
85994 jquery.ubsdiff
264 jquery.ubsdiff.brotli
252 jquery.ubsdiff.brotli9
309 jquery.ubsdiff.bz2
403 jquery.ubsdiff.gz
360 jquery.ubsdiff.xz

So, 376 bytes for unmodified bsdiff, 309 bytes by compressing the whole uncompressed bsdiff file with bzip2, 264 bytes by compressing the whole uncompressed bsdiff file with brotli, and (strangely) 252 bytes with quality 9 brotli (the default is 11).
Boxy, the most hackable theme for Sublime Text 3
Epigrams in Programming
While I agree that multiline text boxes would have been great, Text on a Path is also useful on occasion.

What it comes down to is that if you look at SVG as vector graphics for the web, it's quite complicated, but if you look at it as part of replacing Adobe Illustrator, it may not yet have enough features. Certainly, you can't represent a circle perfectly with a bezier curve.
As far as I know, per annum is actually a part of the English language. I typically have seen it used in the context of pricing or finance which seems to be verified. [1] I don't disagree with you about p.a. less clear than /yr though.

1. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3933/what-is-the-...
My partner has (she says) treasured my comment to her once that the second derivative of her emotional plane is very low. I meant that she is very stable and doesn't suddenly fly into some weird emotional state. I couldn't think of any other way of putting it.
Yep, try this: "The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories" John C. Baez, John Huerta.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1556
An important goal along the way to chipping the subjects.
> The thing is, almost nobody is using SVGs on the Web.

Google maps switched to SVG for street layers like ten years ago.
I was going to ask that - but assumed I'd get down voted into the err.. Pacific Vortex. I'll down vote myself for that one.