skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m suggesting that military service isn’t normal labor and shouldn’t be treated as such. That war isn’t just a Kissingeresque chess move, but a last resort activity. You can’t use lethal force in business. Societies shouldn’t use lethal force as a matter of business. Both people and countries should act only in self defense.

War is a social cost that should be born by all members of the society. A draft isn’t an anti-democratic hack anymore than preventing a company from dumping toxic waste in a river is anti-democratic. We inhibit some freedoms to protect other freedoms. Certain actions have externalities beyond the person engaged in them. We have obligations beyond just serving ourselves.

Teachers unions don’t overthrow governments, but militaries, private or public, do. I lean libertarian in certain things, but no longer regarding the military. Allowing private companies to wield lethal force with military style units scares me. The military and law enforcement underpin the very laws that the country is built upon. Congress can pass a law, the courts can judge upon it, but without someone willing to pick up a gun and enforce it, laws are nothing more than words on paper.

Awhile back I saw an article about a private psyops contractor targeting american journalists who were critical of it, trying to tarnish their reputations. I scoured Google for 20 minutes but couldn’t find it. I believe there really is a threat that these private companies will engage in activities for their own self-interest at the expense of the country. I believe most of these companies do have a lot of patriotic people who are trying to make good money for their families and I don’t think the threat is extreme at the moment but that it grows over time as this becomes the pattern and the gulf widens between the military and the civilian population it’s supposed to protect.

I always felt that a key component contributing to the end of the Roman Republican period was the fact the elite echelons of society no longer felt obligated to serve and the soldiers no longer felt an allegiance to them or the institutions they ruled. From wikipedia: “The extensive campaigning abroad by Roman generals, and the rewarding of soldiers with plunder on these campaigns, led to a general trend of soldiers becoming increasingly loyal to their generals rather than to the state.”[1] I don’t want our soldier’s loyalty focused on a paycheck. I’m afraid more of where we are going then where we currently are.

Soldiers can’t quit. They can’t unionize. They can’t demand higher wages. But they can use lethal force to achieve their objectives. We need to make sure that those objectives are always in line with democracy. If we don’t, then you can vote all you want and one day it won’t matter, because democracy depends upon the rule of law and that depends upon the will of the military. I prefer a civilian military more than a private military and more than an all volunteer military. I think that is the greatest defense of democracy and the freedom you talk about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic
La Verdolaga, la mejor amiga de la vida sana – ROOSTERGNN
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:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286260
'Dwellings' and 'units', two words I often see in articles about housing in the United States, are very grim and cold ways to refer to people's homes.
Amazing! And to think that all it cost was all the transparency you could use to debug it. And making it much harder to implement.

But seriously, as much as I like HTTP/2, it's not fully replacing 1.1 ever.
Well HTTP/2 is awesome ... for web applications where you might not have to interact with third parties (ie Google's usecase and they build it in the first place IMHO).

When you have a web site this is a totally different story : beside your content and statics, you'll have maps from a CDN, widgets from third parties, ads ... and so on.
"changing their site to take advantage of its benefits" is just not realistic for normal website.
Threats posed by government are much more profound than those posed by any other type of organisation, because governments have much less effective checks on their power.
This has nothing to do with fairness, the schools, the teachers, nor anything else they throw into the argument.

Most of the "bad" schools get the same (or even more) amount of funding, resources, coursework/material, as the "good" schools.

The difference that separates the two categories are the students (and their parents).

Charter schools simply don't have to put up with the same destructive students - and are able to create a productive environment for learning for the constructive students.

The problem is they tend to also not follow the NAACP approved racial demographics/splits.
Astrology, interesting. I remember seeing astrology apps and their printed output - horoscopes, etc. - probably done in dBase, Foxpro or Clipper - back in the day. Hadn't thought about it for years. Wasn't into it myself, but my guess is that the apps or their output (operated by real human astrologers (automation!), or corner xerox shops), actually sold, maybe even well.

A non-techie friend once consulted me about making an app to predict results of horse races, applying the "rules" in some really old esoteric book he had. Didn't do it after all, forget why. Maybe I thought the "rules" were not implementable or were logically inconsistent (I mean leaving aside the fact that you cannot predict such things, and not to mention rigging either).
> (beyond the fact that they lost the thread on western architecture, which should be blamed on the academy[2])

Can you explain what that means? I'm assuming the linked book is to back up your claim, and not to explain it.
add to that 250kg of milk and 15kg of cheese and you'll soon have no space for any kind of beans, legumes, vegetables and fruits.

as I've said before, problem is overconsumption of everything and animal products take a huge part of that 3500kcal intake.

reducing intake of calorically dense foods is a good step towards battling the rise of killer diseases since most of them are obviously caused by unhealthy lifestyle.
Who is PG?
> The fakeness isn't properly explored in the blog. There is an uncanny valley effect where anyone who knows anything about Georgians, for example, can trivially identify a Georgian-inspired fake Georgian. I mean, you blew a million bucks and got all the hundred bucks parts wrong... how silly.

Class signalling. It's important to keep the new money in their place.
It really depends on the job you're applying for. If you're applying for a job at a company that provides SaaS on a particular software stack that's gonna be really different than applying at a work-for-hire web development house. There's really not enough information here for me to give you any kind of useful advice. If you'r qualified for the job you should know the basics that are applicable to just about any front end web developer job.

I'd try to find out as much as you can about what the company you're applying to does so you can get familiar with that stuff.
The thing that's crappy about McMansions isn't the people, it's that they're built by consciously aping a style, and then ignoring all of the rules of the style. If you regard architecture as a language, McMansions are composed entirely of pidgin.

It's akin to people calling their development process "agile" but following none of the rules of agile. They have "stand-up" meetings that don't go anywhere, retrospectives that are meaningless, and sprints that constantly expand in scope. Superficially it's agile, except that it violates all of the actual rules of agile development.
"it is impossible to prove definitively that market manipulation was in their hearts. Maybe, as the Hunts always claimed, they just really believed in the enduring value of silver."

Sigh.. yah right. Just like they really believed in the enduring value of soya beans.
I'm a paying customer of historio.us. I really like it :) I would be sad if you let it go.
There's no evidence for sugar and corn syrup that is better than evidence for animal products.

Robert Lustig's bitter truth is a complete lie.

Fact-checking bunch of his "extraordinary" statements, like those about Japanese not consuming fructose, and similar, points that he has an agenda to share.
Google is in some ways easier, because there's no real threat to their cash cow, search ads. Apple has to stay ahead of competition in phones. That competition is now quite good, and usually cheaper.

As CEO of Apple, Cook is expected to deliver the Next Big Thing. So far, he hasn't, and he's running out of time. (Cars? Tough, low-margin business. VR? Niche market. Watches? Tried that. Robots? Not ready yet. Voice AI? Already doing that, need to improve. Services? Crowded field, no edge.)
Story of how humans populated America is “biologically unviable”, study finds
Dom / component recycle and batch updates are about performance
My objection -- visible in nearly every one of the listed McMansions, but also a few of the 'classic' buildings -- is that a roof is a functional object, and every time you create a valley between two neighboring rooflines, you increase the likelihood of failure.

Housing should be built for the climate of the area where it is placed. A SoCal-style flat roof built around a central courtyard and pool is perfectly reasonable there... and a really bad idea in Minnesota or Maine. There's no reason to put a two-story barn pseudo-conversion in a place where they never had that style of barn and will never need to shed snow quickly.

First function, then play around with form.
While McMansions do seem kitschy and aesthetically unappealing to me, that is my subjective feeling.

I find it inappropriate and offensive that this author decides to be the sole authority on aesthetics of PRIVATE properties, appealing to some sort of an unassailable, celestial authority that mainstream architecture is and promoting boring, utilitarian designs. Just how far down the slippery slope of the rabbit hole do you want to go? Why not box people in grey Soviet apartment buildings?

All of this sounds to me like arrogant ramblings of people who like authoritarianism and can't grasp the concept of personal freedom and that people like homes that are wacky and extension of their own egos and sense of pride in their financial success.
People knowing about algorithm+implementation details? Definitely not front-end developers. (Not trying to implicate that front-end devs can't do it... you get the point)
A Strange Change of Rotation
"The problem with McMansions is usually too much house on too little land"

On the other hand, the problem with Fallingwater is that it leaked, was full of mold and mildew, and was structurally unsound. It failed at the most essential functions of a house: standing up and keeping the rain out.

If you want to be a sculptor, you should be a sculptor. If you want to be an architect, you need to design stuff that keeps the rain out, the heat in or out (depending on climate and season) and the noise and odors of the neighbors away. Yes, Frank Gehry, I'm looking in your direction, as well as that of FLW.
While I personally agree with your actions, I do wonder if it really is ethical to hack them back.

In all probability, his hack was a mere annoyance to them, nothing more. I assume the scammers use company computers in a shared location (e.g. he could hear relevant discussions in the background).

So if one of the scammer's computers is locked by ransomware, a clean install of Windows puts them back in business.
Vue.js 2 is an hibrid between virtual dom and data binding.
The current thinking is that T. rex used its stubby arms to grasp prey when it went in for the kill. A similar line of thinking applies to the flapping wings of birds: earlier theropods flapped their forelimbs in order to help hoist themselves on top of their prey to make the killing bite.

Their common ancestors may have evolved bipedalism because forelimbs proved cumbersome when taking down large prey.
No that's not really how ANN's work.
Afaik you specify svg version in the image, so support probably depends on that. In other words, you should be safe as long as you use older version.
If I have to build a deb to install something, I might as well just save myself the time and use pip. The convenience of a package manager goes away when you have to package everything yourself before you can use it. At that point saying 'why doesn't everyone just use apt-get' is the same as saying 'why doesn't everyone just configure ; make ; make install.'

I also don't use Debian.
> A theoretical physicist friend likes to say, only partly in jest, that there should be books titled "______ for Mathematicians", where _____ is something generally believed to be difficult (quantum chemistry, general relativity, securities pricing, formal epistemology)

At least one of these does exist:

https://www.amazon.com/General-Relativity-Mathematicians-Gra...

Given how the author seems to be most familiar with geometry by the kind of examples that she or he gives, I'm surrpised that they're not already familiarw with this book.
Why would Babel change drastically the way you organize your code? Isn't it a just compiler?
"Increase disk utilization when using Swift"? What you wrote makes no sense.

There is never any fear of losing a pool when losing a vdev, as ZFS will let one simulate the entire thing by letting one use files as disks:

% mkfile -v 128m /var/tmp/d0
/var/tmp/d0 134217728 bytes
% mkfile -v 128m /var/tmp/d1
/var/tmp/d1 134217728 bytes
% sudo zpool create testpool0 mirror /var/tmp/d0 /var/tmp/d1
Password:
% zpool status
pool: testpool0
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
testpool0 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
/var/tmp/d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
/var/tmp/d1 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors
% zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
testpool0 988K 79.0M 952K /Volumes/testpool0
% sudo zpool set autoexpand=on testpool0
% mkfile -v 192m /var/tmp/d2
/var/tmp/d2 201326592 bytes
% mkfile -v 192m /var/tmp/d3
/var/tmp/d3 201326592 bytes
% sudo zpool replace testpool0 /var/tmp/d0 /var/tmp/d2
% sudo zpool replace testpool0 /var/tmp/d1 /var/tmp/d3
% zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
testpool0 1008K 143M 952K /Volumes/testpool0
% sudo zpool destroy testpool0
Running process: '/usr/sbin/diskutil' 'unmount' '/Volumes/testpool0'
Unmount successful for /Volumes/testpool0
% rm /var/tmp/d[0-9]
The ones that hired me just asked if I can do the job ;)
The founder of Y Combinator
Paul Graham, YC co-founder and original dev/admin of this message board.
Not only that, his point made no sense at all. Mandating companies to allow employees who can sensibly do their duties from home wouldn't harm profits whatsoever.

They just don't want to do it because they can't socially pressure you to stay in the office 10+ hours a day. They don't feel they're getting everything out of you that they can. A good, hard, focused 8 hours is always going to beat a sloppy 10+. Most people start sabotaging in one way or another, become passive aggressive and other bad behaviors.

People seem to have issue with my "force" comment, but we don't -force- the 8-hour workday today, and it's not obeyed. Business more often than not does not follow the law without enforcement and as a precursor, regulation.

It's good for everyone involved, but profit seeking is usually short-sighted. I'm not surprised at the downvotes from business owners and the investment class, but there's enough that employees must be downvoting as well. Which for me is confirmation-bias that the US work culture is completely upside down as much because of employees as management.
I highly recommend the book (it is a quick and funny read) but to give you my short version: post WW2, academic architecture was taken over by anti-traditionalists, and purity spiraling lead to what Wolfe called "The Yale Box". People like Christopher Alexander[1] were ignored or shouted down as fascist, the craftsmen who were able to build the old way all died apprenticeless, and here we are.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Way-Building-Christopher-Ale...
It's not that we'll never run out of oil, but if the price of oil rises to arbitrarily high levels then alternatives start to make economic sense. Those alternatives in the short term may be alternate sources of oil that were too difficult to extract earlier, but alternatives can also be completely difference sources of energy. And once economies of scale start to apply to those alternatives then their price starts to reduce, which further increases demand, etc. Not sure where the long term equilibrium price is for energy and it may very well be higher than in the era of cheap oil but I also don't think that it will rise to catastrophically high levels that were predicted by "peak oil".
The thing is, almost nobody is using SVGs on the Web. Usually wikipedia is cited as a website that uses them, when in reality they're rendering them to raster images. They actually have a nice site with the problems they're facing: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:SVG#Creating_SVG_ima...
Other issues are that files might be bigger than pngs and have bad performance.

PNG and JPEG files are also universally usable outside of browsers. Linux systems often use SVGs for icons, but that's basically where the support stops. If I want to include a SVG in a latex I have to convert it to postscript or pdf. If I want to include a SVG into a Word document I have to convert it into an emf (enhanced metafile). You can't use SVGs for cocoa, UIkit, WinForms or MFC applications out of the box. The reason probably is the complexity to support SVGs.
It reads like an appeal to authority. "This house has too many windows" is clearly an opinion. "This mass of this house has too many voids" sounds weighty and important, like a technical critique, a proven rule, a fact.
I don't buy into the whole 'everyone is getting spied on'. While the minority of individuals have valuable information, everything about the masses is completely predictable and mundane. There is nothing interesting about an average person, their lives are identical to others and there is no point in spying to get the information already known.
Virtual dom consume more computation processor while data binding consume more memory.
"a real desert"

What does that look like? Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, does it look like "a real desert"?
Peer review as currently done certainly isn't foundational to the scientific method, but the general principle of having ideas checked and examined by as many other minds as are capable of understanding them, does lead to stronger and more reliable ideas over time. Not everything that science deals with is quantifiable or directly testable; results must be interpreted, and theories have to be made about the wider reasons for those results in order to come up with the next set of experiments; this is the realm of discussion and argument, rather than measurement or direct tests, and science is best advanced when there is strong, productive discussion among competent arguers.
That all sounds like opinion to me. When I look at the examples of what I'm supposed to think looks awful, I just see a house. The one with so much overwhelming "secondary mass" looks nice to me.

If you need to study architecture to "realize" how bad those look, maybe they actually don't look bad. All the people buying them seem to agree.

There are legitimate problems with the construction quality, as others have pointed out, but trying to claim they objectively look bad is clearly wrong.
No, it is irreducibly a matter of taste.
It's an interesting conjecture and probably has some merit, but looking at the examples in the article, I, as someone who is not an architect (but do like nice looking things) find that the McMansion examples are generally pretty ugly things that bother me for some reason I can't define (though it is thoroughly defined in the article of course).

I've seen houses designed by architects before, both internally and externally, and usually they exude a sense of balance and peace that is not present in the average house.

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.

It seems to me this alternative conjecture is borne out in things like music (pop music, with a few exceptions, is generally simplistic and crass compared to many more refined sub-genre), literature (again with rare exceptions, books that "everyone likes" are generally awful - see 50 shades, Bourne, etc), though interestingly not movies (at least my impression is that there are a lot of very popular movies which are also quite good).
I don't understand. They looked fine to you until someone with authority told you they were actually ugly, and now you can't understand how anyone could think they look fine? Perhaps yourself-of-two-hours-ago could offer some insight?
What I wrote is a factual observation, not a value judgement.

So it makes sense whether one believes that "only music that makes money matters" or not.

(And I don't believe that at all)
I'm a front-end dev going through the hiring process right now. Here's a list of some of the questions I have been asked in technical interviews:
- What is a clojure?
- What is a callback?
- What is an IIFE?
- How can you use scope to keep a copy of i in a loop?
- What is going on when you click a link to go to a website?
- Difference between classical inheritance vs prototypical
- Difference between object-oriented programming vs functional
- Knowing what 'this' is referencing at different points inside a function/class
- Difference between <p>, <div> and <span>
- Difference between css selectors: '.classA.classB', '.classA .classB', '.classA > .classB'
- Difference between 'x is undefined' and 'x is not defined' error messages

Programming problems:
- Calculating fibonacci numbers
- Depth-first binary tree search
- Turning a hashmap with multiple levels of embedded hashmaps inside-out
- Handling API response data to create new objects
- Creating a login form
- Using media queries to make responsive pages
- Determine if word is a palindrome
- Using recursive functions

Knowing methods to reduce computation time and space with hashmaps and arrays is important. You will also be asked to state the computation time and space of your solutions

Framework-specific questions:
- What is the difference between a component and a directive? (AngularJS)
- What is the difference between a service and a directive? (AngularJS)

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten.

https://www.interviewcake.com/ and Hackerrank can prepare you for programming problems but outside of the giants you don't often get asked these.
How putting laundry machines in poor public schools boosted attendance
Correct and I should have been more careful.

AWS throttle port 25. So for us to use that host as a relay server, we wouldn't be able to because of the throttle.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-p...
Much better thanks.
I think GP was referring to a situation where no such library exists or the needed modification would be prohibitive. Not that uncommon scenario once you are inventing new kinds of visualizations. Libs like d3js help, but they are pretty low level.
> The builder is simply trying to deliver the most product for the lowest cost: a giant inoffensive box.

The houses the author likes are inoffensive boxes. The rambling, varied, multifaceted ones are what he doesn't like.
Against Tokens (of the cryptocurrency variety)