skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually is the source of the problem because his rules end up being inconsistent.

Generally, rules about what constitutes "good taste" or "aesthetically pleasing" are derived not just from wealthy people but from established wealthy people. This is something that goes back centuries, to when Western cultures first started having a bit more mobility and it was possible for a person who wasn't born into a family of hereditary land-owning aristocrats to accumulate enough wealth to start having nice clothes, a large house with servants, etc.

The hereditary aristocrats, of course, didn't care much for this and so wanted some way to distinguish themselves from the jumped-up nouveaux riches, some of whom even became rich enough to buy (or obtain through rendering financial "service" to a monarch) their own heritable noble titles. And so began a complex, inconsistent and ever-changing set of standards of aesthetics and behavior, designed to act as a kind of shibboleth: if you hadn't been brought up among people who'd been doing this their whole lives (and who in turn were brought up by people who'd been doing it their whole lives), you'd never quite get it right and the older established noble families would be able to tell you didn't really belong to their social class (and would treat you accordingly).

Many of these rules about architecture are artifacts of this system: they are the evolved result of established wealthy families trying to find ways to make sure their homes were distinguishable from the homes of the vulgar arrivistes.

And in fact this is precisely what the backlash against the "McMansion" is about. Newly upper-middle-class people, and even newly-extremely-wealthy people, can still be singled out by the way their homes merely imitate the homes of established old-money people, and by picking out the ways the imitation fails. And remember that to the old money, a Silicon Valley billionaire who started out in a working-class family is worse -- because they jumped far too many social classes in one generation -- than someone who merely hopped into upper-middle-class suburbia. So just looking at recently-built megahouses won't tell you much because many of them will be built to the tastes of people who, by definition, cannot have good taste (remember: if you haven't had it for at least three generations, you don't have it at all).
There's the time Roosevelt was on a mission to get the New Deal passed, and threatened to pack the courts if they kept ruling his legislation unconstitutional. The Chief Justice changed his position very quickly when that threat came up.

Packing the courts involved creating 6 additional spots on the court(chosen by the President), if existing justices didn't retire by 70.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bil...
Re:AAPL

There's a market for $AAPL shares at $100+. Some people are happy paying this price. Some people think this is too high.

There's similarly a market for Palo alto houses at $2.5m. Some people are happy paying this price. Some people think this is too high.

When someone comes along asking AAPL to sell them shares of $AAPL for $65 when there's a market for them at $100+, you as the holder of other analogous $AAPL shares won't be happy since such an occurrence will diminish the value or your investment.

When someone comes along asking a city for as additional housing stock at $X << $2.5m, you as the owner of an analogous investment asset will respond to the threat of your investment coming under siege. Non-investment aspects of housing's role in society will be greatly diminished in the homeowner's mind, when the home represents 20-50% of their net worth (given that their minds have been conditioned to treat housing as an investment asset).
-Re: attribution

You'd think with the number of high profile cyber-sec wonks on here beating the It Was Russia™ drum, I wonder what they would think of Binney's statements, and technicalities he points out absent from such hollow saber rattling?

Then again, if what took place in the shadows is coming to light is true and can be cross verified, then you'd think that would ultimately be valuable to the public…
Housing prices depend on availability, and housing density is controlled by regulation. No amount of innovation can fix a zoning problem.
for windows, in powershell

(Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py").Content | python -

but generally in that case, one doesn't need to install ensure_pip, and can use that. And one doesn't need to install pip at all, since it is an optional come-with

but in most cases, the `curl url | python -` or equivalent solves the problem
Is it possible to render textured quads of arbitrary shapes? I'm trying to make a runtime for Spine (http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-runtimes) and SDL's inability to do that directly without using OpenGL was the reason I couldn't use it. I don't see a way to do that in Sdl-gpu either - maybe I need to look at the source code.
There is no free market in housing. Supply is very tightly constrained by the city via a system of very stringent zoning (3 stories max most of the city, only 3% of the city is even zone for multifamily housing) and taxes. What you see happening in the Bay Area isn't the result of the laws of supply and demand, it's the result of the laws passed by city councils. There's no developer in the world who wouldn't love to build more housing in one of the most booming places in the country. They're not not doing it because it doesn't make financial sense or because there's no demand there. They're not doing it because the housing market in the Bay Area has been regulated to death.
Its the other way around. Trump's campaign manager is laundering sponsor money in Ukraine. And it seems Mr Manafort took an active part in soiling Ukrainian-Russian relations along with Ms Nuland :-)
Or just law in general. Law school grads are getting screwed.
The ATF (Alcohol Tobacco Firearms enforcement agency in the US) was on a hiring freeze for a long time because no one retired and the size of the agency was fairly fixed. They're expecting a huge wave of retirements in the near future and are now hiring like crazy (relatively speaking, anyway).
This view of competition is too narrow; it misses the bigger picture of the benefits and detriments to society. Also, a few anecdotes do not disprove the theory, especially when many of the municipal utility efforts that fail had meddling from corporations trying to sabotage them.

Many citied and towns across the globe have demonstrated that municipally owned infrastructure can be better than monopoly owned infrastructure.
I didn't find the pictures of "bad" houses to be particularly less attractive or off-putting compared to the "good" houses, both before and after reading the justification for why one was supposedly bad. As a result, the evidence presented left me with the impression that the rules being given were just arbitrary declarations made to justify the author's taste. I suspect Houshalter's reaction was similar.
All CS programs are definitely not the same. I have seen threads positing that it doesn't matter where you go to school because its non-academic stuff that makes the biggest difference, but haven't seen much sentiment of "all CS programs are the same"

I do think that the more selective schools graduate better people largely because the start with the better people, but don't think the school makes zero difference.
You can't "prohibit" natural monopolies. They exist because market entry is very difficult. I.e. you can't expect the market to be competitive on its own, especially in rural / low income areas. Therefore, as above. Either such monopolists should be very strictly regulated (not the case with monopolistic ISPs at present), or there should be municipal ISPs which can counter problems caused by natural monopolists. Current monopolistic ISPs oppose all of that. They want to continue abusing the lack of competition.
In the X->JS transpiler space it's really only Emscripten that can take a library not written with JS in mind, and get it working. Scala.js is close, but in my experience the transpilers are really only suited for projects written from scratch.

Not to say there's not value in building JS output with semantics very close to to Swift.
The weather man. You get to 'live' almost twice as many hours because of the weather. Add top companies, upcoming companies, jobs, schools, colleges, city stuff, nature stuff, Sports and you just can't beat it. After all you only live once.
Would love to see comments from someone studying there or someone who has done it in France. Also, I understand the costs of running this school are low, but still how are they funding this?
What's your source?
> Probably they will be torn down in 40 years anyway.

You say that like that's a bad thing. IMO, the ability to tear down and rebuild on a 40 year timescale is a feature, not a bug. We get better design, more energy efficient, safer, easier to maintain, etc. etc. homes for each new generation. That's a good thing.
>> "...highly subjective personal preference."

I'm sorry to be the smug guy linking PG on HN, but this essay [0] directly engages your point here and IMHO pretty conclusively refutes it. This is the money quote:

"As in any job, as you continue to design things, you'll get better at it. Your tastes will change. And, like anyone who gets better at their job, you'll know you're getting better. If so, your old tastes were not merely different, but worse. Poof goes the axiom that taste can't be wrong."

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Oddly enough, I think there are a lot of positions in the maritime industry like that. Harbor pilot comes to mind.
You should check out Ab Inito, an even more secretive ETL company that predates Palantir and is also milking the DoD (it's an age old racket). They're $90K per seat per year and it's basically a crappy version of Jenkins. Apparently they have staff that search the internet and sue anyone who mentions them. Not even Palantir does that. So let's see how long this posts lasts :)
Tools to support Systems Engineering processes are very enterprise oriented. Often, they also vary by sub-discipline and product type.

Requirements management tools are often similar to IBM Rational DOORS http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ratidoor

SysML is a modeling language, similar to UML, that some organizations use for Systems Engineering http://sysml.org

Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is the general term for modeling systems (for example with SysML) and then applying computer analysis tools to those models to perform Systems Engineering optimizations.

Google Project Ara made use of MetaMorph Software Tools to help module designers perform PCB layout, component integration, module pricing estimation, package fit check, module performance, and specification compliance. See http://www.metamorphsoftware.com and https://webgme.org

In general, there is a lot of opportunity to modernize MBSE tools and bring them to a wider audience.
Fourth has to feel worse than last. If you're last, you just got beaten by everyone. They were all superior athletes on that day but fourth has to feel awful.
That's exactly why I didn't say to prohibit monopolies; I suggested prohibiting anti-competitive behavior, not monopolies.

Also, the only natural monopoly involved is the actual fiber infrastructure, for which it does make sense to avoid duplication. That doesn't mean ISPs that run over that infrastructure are in any way a natural monopoly. Decouple the two, and you'll have plenty of opportunity for ISP competition.
Thanks for that link, I was looking for a book just like that when I tried to learn Japanese 10 years ago and gave up - I may give it another go soon.
> India has a huge movie industry (which is unusual enough) but it gets almost no attention from outside India except by expats.

Do you have enough evidence to support this claim? Anecdotally, I have seen a lot of folks in Africa, the Middle East obsess about Bollywood movies. To me, anime (outside Asia) is a niche whose obsession is heavily correlated with young American/Western/white men. Could possibly be a reason why tech (with its demographics) has a lot of anime lovers.
Some of us are developers who can sanely look at that and say, yeah...that's not gonna work anytime soon.
Japanese has 3 forms of writing (not counting use of the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals). 2 of them are used to write phonetically, and each has about 50 characters. They aren't too hard to learn, and are the closest equivalent to "letters" in written Japanese. One is used for phonetically writing Japanese words and for grammatical particles, and the other is mostly used for foreign words, sound effects, or things that you want to bring special attention to for some reason (I've been told to consider it similar to writing something in italics, maybe). The shapes of these have a somewhat-distant etymology to Chinese characters.

Beyond that, there are 10s of thousands of characters with a much closer correspondence to the Chinese ones (although perhaps a number in the low thousands are commonly used in everyday life). About the first thousand are taught to grade schoolers. I don't think that the correspondence is perfect, but these are supposed to be the more common characters, in general (and are taught earlier for that reason). Roughly the next 1000 are taught during middle and high school.

As a Japanese learner, we tended to have example sentences that introduced new grammar constructs, new words, and new characters for those words (if they're commonly written non-phonetically). I think by the 4th semester of class, the goal was to have mastery of the ~100 phonetic characters (the hiragana and the katakana), along with perhaps 500 of the non-phonetic characters (the kanji), along with different ways that various characters would be pronounced when used in different words.

In general, I feel like we did cover legitimately useful words and characters, but that if the text (literally) left out the less-used "letters", it'd be a premature optimization that wouldn't gain you much. If you mean that more commonly-used words should be given priority, then I agree, in principle.
Came here to say this. I am fond of saying that when I was in grad school, I was preparing to enter a profession where I'd literally have to wait for someone to die to get a job.
I'm tired of hearing the ideological position that government interference is absolutely bad. I live in a city-state where government housing and policies and strict zoning at once makes housing affordable for the middle and lower class insulated from fluctuating rents, and protects public spaces from overdevelopment in a land-scarce island.
Oh, so that's how it works. See Fig. 2 of the patent. It's a lot like the Peugeot MCE-5, an earlier variable-displacement engine. The Nissan mechanism looks simpler and seems to take up less space inside the engine. Maybe that will make this workable. Variable-displacement isn't new, but previous attempts were mechanically clunky. It adds extra moving parts to the highest-load path in an engine - the piston to crankshaft connection. It has to deliver large benefits to justify the costs and problems that implies.

Most engines already have knock sensors. They're used to adjust fuel/air ratio and spark timing to just above/after where the engine starts to knock. A few engines adjust valve timing while running, which is also complex mechanically, but not as difficult as adjusting compression. Now there's another variable to tweak.

It may take a machine learning system to tune such an engine. All those interdependent variables to adjust make that a hard problem. Different values required based on engine speed, load, temperature, fuel consumption, and emissions outputs. All this is usually expressed as precomputed tables which are interpolated within the engine controller. Those tables have to be developed somehow.
Industries are successful when they cluster. It's why you see entertainment in LA, insurance in Chicago, biotech in North Carolina, banks in NY, and think tanks and defense contractors in DC. As we move away from manufacturing and into a knowledge economy, being able to quickly exchange and improve on ideas with other people becomes more and more valuable. It's why the entire world is seeing a massive movement toward urbanization. We are not going to see high tech companies set up in places with few potential employees, no research universities, no investors, and no potential partners. It's simply not going to happen even if it looks like the easy way out. If you consider your own fortunes and you consider joining a young up and coming company that is risky because it has a high chance of failure, I think you'll find you are much more comfortable with that risk if your town has hundreds of other employers for you to go to afterwards, rather than just a small handful. The Internet does not and cannot replace the connections you form by accidentally meeting people at coffee shops or parties. Knowing and seeing people on the street in real life has more value and builds more trust than a text message. Do you think that calling your mom is the same thing as visiting her in person? Do you think you could be a good parent via Skype? Of course not. So why do you think that business relationships are any different?
Routines can be created to mimic desired behavior. Sprinkle in some conventions and limitations, and you have a useful tool for a large set of use-cases.
Scientific glassblower: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassbl...
> To this day, buyers believe more square footage is better, even if it is mostly garage.

Which part of the US counts the garage as "square footage"?
roughly 20% of my friends are going into law. Some of them haven't really looked at the job outlook/ market
I have a space alien.

Suck my cock, nigger. You know you will.
Where do you think VC money comes from? Massive profits from bond, equity, and real estate profits courtesy of the FED. Cheap money borrowed at 0% thanks to the FED.

Some of us older people were around to see a very similar situation in the 90's (although not nearly as bad). Greenspan debuted ~0% interest rates and the Clintons fully embraced the Reaganomic/trickle-down philosophy (now called "wealth effect"). They opened the borders via NAFTA and deregulated Wall Street via Rubinomics. It all fell apart when the tech bubble burst in 2000. Instead of fixing the problem, Bush doubled down on the same broken policies, which led to the collapse of the late 2000's. Again, Obama and the FED doubled down, trying to fix the broken, cheap money policies with even more cheap money. Here we are 8 years later and markets have basically ceased to exist. Central banks own far more bonds and equities in many counties then private parties do, and they are only increasing their buying. Growth is non-existent even by the manipulated, mostly-worthless metrics employed by the central banks. The insane wealth of Silicon Valley is not only a creation of the FED, its a good barometer for how out of whack our economic system is.
$5k / month definitely does not get you a nice 4 bedroom in Palo Alto. Maybe in East Palo Alto, but that is a very different place in terms of quality of life, safety, and schools.

Edit: I decided to check, and there is one place in Palo Alto right now with 4 bedrooms at that price https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/pen/apa?nh=83&max_price=...

From personal experience, as someone who was priced out of Palo Alto this year, it is rare to see a place at that price point in Palo Alto proper, and they tend to be quite run down. The one place available right now is actually in a good location and doesn't look too bad inside, so that's not a bad deal for the location.

On the other hand, you can get a great place in Seattle with views for over $1000 cheaper: https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/5723972635.html
How can early monthly saving affect your later life?
Making a library nobody uses is even a bigger pain in the ass than spending considerable time writing proper documentation. For software developer documentation is a large part of the developer experience. Without it, a large portion of potential users will switch to a less optimal but well documented solution. Documentation matters.
But the measurement of consumption is in currency, typically USD. If you get that education via a free MOOC, then its contribution toward consumption measures is the cost of the electricity and bandwidth you used... essentially zero.
What if your root password is different from your regular password? For example - if you have a Kerberos root principal? That seems even better.
I think that trend has played out slightly differently than you describe. Where I work "systems engineer" is more akin to "system admin."
Most of their students won't choose music as a profession, though.
I disagree about externs being a waste of time for Haxe. I've written several, and they've been instrumental in helping me understand a codebase, and manage an upgrade process.

Haxe has a lot of metadata mechanisms that enable mapping language-specific semantics to Haxe standards (@:selfCall, and @:native for example). Haxe also has abstract types, which enable automatic inline runtime conversions (e.g., converting a native type to a standard Haxe type automatically depending on usage in haxe methods).

It's true you can't expect to find a high quality extern for a given version of any given library. However, it's pretty easy to write a small one for the subset of functionality that you require. It always ends up paying off for me.
I was thinking that the property/building owner could have just paid an independent contractor to wire the building when it was built (it's only 10 yrs old), much the same way various subcontractors are used for different jobs when building a house. That way, data streams could come in through the cable lines that run to the building or one of the new wireless options that are being offered in my city.

That was just my very basic thought about how this could feel less anti-consumer/monopolistic--I don't actually know how these types of things are usually done so feel free to let me know if you have more expertise!
I'm curious to here more about how this policy works.

I would be skeptical that the claim that a land-scarce island should be wary of overdevelopment-- I would think sprawl would be more dangerous (and density would be welcomed).

In practice, strict zoning tends to create sprawl-- when density is outlawed, the displaced people need to live somewhere... and thus the footprint of cities grows wider and wider.
Ask HN: How do you deal with context switches?
I searched previous hackernews threads on this, and found a few suggestions I thought looked good:
(1). Pair programming. (I am the sole tech cofounder and don't have another guy to work with yet...)

(2). Just saying "NO" till you are done on present task. (Being the cofounder, have to share responsibilities to deal with a bunch of other shit to get money, do legal stuff etc... so can't always just say "NO" for another few months till org grows large & can hire someone to get this done)

(3). Allocate blocks of time on calendar.
I am solely developing the web app (usual front-end shit), backend rest api and the android app (android dev build waiting is the worst IMHO) and need to keep switching between these as well through these "blocks" of times I do get alone. I noticed these dev environment switch also slow me down a little even in these "blocks of time". Eventually the product milestones are quite screwed and I am massively depressed and low on confidence.

Really looking for any suggestions that worked for you if any of you have dealt with these things earlier?

(Context if needed/relevant: 29 yr old single guy, not high on energy anymore, no social life distractions either)