skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This conversation has gone in a very interesting direction. It's true that on one level the perspective of this blog author corresponds to a sort of class-based tutting of the nouveau riche, but on another level I can't shake the feeling that he is pointing to something that's real.

I have much more experience doing web design (some) than I do evaluating architecture (none). The principles he is describing apply in a similar manner to web design, and they are similarly hard to articulate. When you see a block of text without enough space between paragraphs, you know it doesn't have enough space, even though you would be hard-pressed to provide an objective reason why a paragraph needs 20 px vs. 5 px vs. 100px vs. 500px. Only one of those distances feels right, and it has almost nothing to do with how much vertical space is available on your screen or the relative ease of reading paragraphs with that precise distance between them.

Similarly, you can feel a wrongness when a similar visual element is repeated, but without consistency, like a second text box that has a grey that is just slightly bluer than the last text box, even though they contain text of the same type at the same level of semantic importance. That is the equivalent of including windows with wooden shutters, and a set of windows with blinds, and a set of bay windows on the same facade. (For a visual-design example of his masses and voids principle, see the BeOS UI window, but I think this is the weakest of his principles)

It is easy to be a contrarian and say "this guy is wrong, all of this is subjective," but I think that contrariness is more wrong than right. The best functional (not purely artistic) designs, whether they are web designs or architectural designs, hold to a set of quasi-universal aesthetic standards, including balance (symmetry or balanced asymmetry), repetition (consistency in web development terms, repeated elements in musical terms), and appropriate blank space. I suspect that these core principles reflect aspects of human cognition that are not subject to pure subjectivity.

I think if you were designing from first aesthetic principles, you would probably retain balance and thematic cohesiveness (repetition). What you would lose is the trappings of particular eras, like roman columns or those shutter windows. Even if your house was based on a geodesic dome you'd want it to have a certain proportionality and space between visual elements. The problem with McMansions is that they take ONLY those trappings, and discard the principles, and that's what this article should really be about. The reason for this is obvious: the uneducated consumer sees only the trappings, because they are concrete and obvious, thus easy to evaluate. They are associated in the minds of buyers with high class, and so they seem high class in this particular instance.
Management Simulation Games from MIT Sloan
People pay for value. If they see value in doing X over Y, then they'll pay for X.
But the point is that if you sent all the under-performing students to the charter schools instead, in order to remove the burden they represent to the gifted students, we would then say.. look.. district schools are outperforming charter schools.

Thus, the results don't show that charter schools have some secret sauce that is unavailable to district schools. What you're saying is, separate the winners from the losers and the winners will do better than they would otherwise.

That's a defensible position perhaps, but it undermines any argument that privately managed schools are somehow inherently better than district schools.
I like it that they are facilitating adventure games.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/05/amazon-echo-audio-advent...

I wonder to what extent it would work to create high quality narrated Infocom style adventure games.

The logical narrator for everything of course being Stephen Fry.
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best answer ever.
What would the risk be of taking my 10.3-RELEASE box (with VNET enabled kernel) and upgrading it to RC1?
Just curious, what's the difference between significant and substantial?
Pepper, the 4-foot-tall robot that “reads emotions,” makes her US debut
> Honestly, I think a quick death (not the insane decades-of-imprisonment-followed-by-ritualistic-execution we have now) is far more humane than life in prison.

I think many would agree, that both systems are broken. The fix for the first is easier: Just stop it.
Presumably people who want their budgeting app know it needs this data to do the job. I'm a user of their Money Center product and it is a great way to see my finances at my finger tips and has way better reporting than Mint who also presumably does similar things and pushes a ton of affiliate offers.
Given that humans are otherwise well adapted as pursuit hunters, able to select a single prey animal and run it to heat exhaustion - it makes sense that bipedalism is another adaption for endurance running.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis
The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups
Hyperloop and our misplaced love of futuristic technology
What would you like techsupporter to do? Drive down to the prisons and personally tear down the bars?

"So long as Texas keeps executing people, I don't see what difference it makes how many [Americans] are in favor of it."
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:25... for bspatch

There was another announcement about pkg itself, but I can't find it. I believe it's being rewritten/modified to fix the issue.
My impression is that the watch sold mainly because of Apple branding not because it solved a real problem or opened up an entire new market. People are hoping/expecting Apple's next big thing to become a viral hit lke the iPhone. The watch isn't that.
Something else that can help with being heads-down is medication. It's good to talk with a psych and see whether they can help.

And, don't forget to talk with HR at work if you don't think you'll get fired to see whether there is a way to reduce distractions. Many are more-than-willing to help- whether it's with buying some noise-cancelling earbuds, relocating you, letting you work from home, or another option. If it's a team member or more that is noisy or distracts you, mention that to your manager or HR.

You can go a long way helping yourself.
Whatever you might think about, it seems like you can listen to just about any song that comes into your head, whenever you want, on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00M2KZH1J0
What makes you think English is any better?

Although the writing system is a PITA. It's of great cultural value etc. etc. but it presents a huge barrier to learners.
Disclaimer: Contrary opinion that might not be yours

I'm building AIs and intelligent botnets for over 13 years now. One thing I learned is that I now think humans can't understand mathematics.

No matter how good you think you are, a simple AI algorithm will proof you wrong. From physics, to algorithms, to simulations, to automation, to analysis - and in evolutionary AIs also the solution generation for a problem.

Every single scientific mathematical model that occured in my life was in an "imperfect" state where humans think that our current "model of things" in form of mathematics is correct while it's totally incomplete and a few days of AI simulation figured out a better way to do it.

I somehow see mathematics not as a knowledge pool; more like a serialization format for transferring knowledge. And I think that serialization format often is too complicated for other humans to be understood and therefore has bias in interpretation and resulting conclusion errors.

And I personally think that this is a bad thing and a problem that needs to be fixed desperately.
That's only partially true. The big home builders actually do a lot of research to determine what prospective customers want before building spec homes. They conduct focus group sessions and even hire social scientists to observe people (with their consent) going about their daily lives. McMansions are designed specifically to fit how upper-middle class Americans actually live. My friends and relatives who have purchased them seem to generally like them, despite the high heating costs.
> get less than zero sympathy if they talk about having difficult lives

You just proved this part.
Bingo. One thing to consider is that many of most praised anime of the 80s were not released for TV, but OVA (Original Video Anime).

This allowed them to do stories and themes that western animations could not touch, because they where expected to be broadcast for kids.

Perhaps the best example could be Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Galactic_Heroes

You are looking at 110 episodes, each 25 minutes long, covering what is effectively a naval war in the stars. But with it you have intrigues of all stripes, and no real good guys.
I like your answer because there is something strange about generalizing a group of people who have dug deep enough down that rabbit hole. Are there signs of a newbie "person A" to a field that they would have more potential to always take on a problem in a better way than "person b". What if einsteins work never involved mathematics and he wrote mysteries about a detective and from his books we could tell this person understands taking on problems and how to learn from failing etc,etc..
Obviously I don't know all the details of the case but I find it troublesome that a psychiatrist would render an opinion without examining the individual who is the object of the opinion. On its face this is unethical particularly in a situation where there's so much at stake.

I'm aware that "assessment at a distance" is frequently sought, for example, reviewing clinical info in the medical record to determine if services were consistent with billing for reimbursement. This is often a question arising with Medicare and other 3rd party payers. However that's not unethical since it's quite different from providing a diagnosis or determining the qualities of a person's functioning without examining the individual.

I have no idea if the doctor's conduct had come before the state licensing board, but it appears there would be substantial reason to consider that conduct "unprofessional" given the actions of the professional societies declaring the behavior as unethical. Normally such disciplinary action carries consider weight with licensing bodies. Most likely this avenue of doing something to keep the situation from recurring has already been explored, it would be a shame if it was overlooked.
Who actually reads the code? (2015)
Doesn't look like it - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC?v...
Put another way, it's not upper middle class people designing these houses. They are merely out to get a house that's "their house" and possibly "finally a house of our own".

The real estate industry, architects and agents and developers who are designing these terrible houses to fit checklists rather than deliver a better value are at least part of the problem.

I am upper middle class and a fan of good architecture (all I knew was I liked modern) but I didn't realize a lot of what this blog points out. I have seen McMansions before and thought they were ugly in some vague way that I couldn't identify... but now I understand why.

Having attempted to get "my" house, I concluded that the only way I would get something up to my standards was to go custom and find an architect who would do things right. Which is a whole other level of expense, requires lower upper class levels of funds.
To address your nit-pick (and lscore720's): Of course we all know the "nobody will hire you after 40" statement is not literally true. The threat of ageism, however, drives technology workers' desperate need to establish and grow our careers quickly, because in general, our career is expected to plateau early compared to other professions.
Then stop treating prisoners so poorly. What I read of US prisons sounds inhumane, so your last sentence comes across to me as comparing two different NaNs.

Also, many countries have banned life imprisonment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment#Reform_or_ab... .
Thanks. There is some interesting work being done with Deep Learning mixed with Bayesian Models and external databases of facts. The training apparently ungodly slow though. My work these days is visual so CNN works well enough. I'm not an authoritative expert in this field though so I'm taking 6 months off to study it intensely, after which I hope to be able to make some meaningful contributions.
Not sure i see the difference by this platform economy vs the one that has sustained Microsoft all these years.
But my point is nothing about breaking these rules makes it "bad". At least OP didn't present any evidence that it does. Just that he, personally, doesn't like it.

At least with code one could make an argument that a certain style increases readability and makes it easier to follow. Although even there I think it's a lot of subjective preference, and it doesn't really matter as long as you are consistent.

With these buildings, changing the style to fit these arbitrary rules could make them worse. Like reducing the number of windows just so it fits into a certain style. Windows are nice and provide better natural lighting. Studies have found windows and natural lighting have a a very positive effect on mental health.

Or forcing the house to be symmetrical. That could make the layout suboptimal. As opposed to if it was allowed to be built without that constraint. And so on for the other rules. Every rule adds more constraints, which requires sacrificing other aspects to satisfy.
What is wrong with carbs now?
I suppose you could describe it that way. Pair programming certainly isn't for everyone, but under the right conditions, it can be very effective. It can be a good means to share ideas and keep up the motivation. That said, it ultimately comes down to whether or not the pair work well together — sometimes you 'click' and everything's great; other times you don't.

A related technique that's quite interesting is mob programming, where an entire team is huddled around a workstation. There's less pressure on each team member as individuals, and the person typing the code is mostly following directions from the others.

Really, the approach to development needs to be appropriate for the dynamics of the team. It might be a good idea to at least try out pair or mob programming to see how effective it is. But you can't just be doing it just because it's the 'hip' thing these days. Also, pair and mob programming can be quite draining, so you may not want to be doing it all day. You could do it for part(s) of the day, and work on your own at your own pace at other times.
This seems like an odd article to be posted here. The author has stopped posting comments and around the same time started just posting links to articles.

Also he isn't posting any comments to any of the articles he is posting....

His twitter feed isn't mentioning anything like this...

I wonder if his account is still under his control?
Why is it not coincidentally? I agree that it appears correlates, but why?
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I watched some of them and the people teaching are top notch. I only wish they showed the slides in the video.
Another case in point for why "Texas" is Norwegian slang for "Crazy".
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>What would you like techsupporter to do? Drive down to the prisons and personally tear down the bars?

The perceived inability of one does not excuse the lack of action by the many, especially if the techsupporter's assertion is true -- that not many Texans support the death penalty.

I suspect that, given California couldn't even replace it with life imprisonment (it failed 52-48 with Prop 34 in 2012), the considerably more conservative state of Texas has at least a simple majority support for the death penalty.

>"So long as Texas keeps executing people, I don't see what difference it makes how many [Americans] are in favor of it."

I agree wholeheartedly.
Presumably, people know that they will be making less after taxes per marginal hour worked, and hence choose to spend their time with family, on hobbies, etc. instead of at work. (Though I think this is reading too far into the data given.)
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Well it makes sense to complain about etc when we have etcd now. Embrace the future!
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Unlike architects, clients have to actually live in the houses (or at least convince other clients to do so). So clients are entitled to meddle. Let's not pretend that architecture is fine art.
dead on. for more examples of what goes by "jazz" these days:

Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUymaxWmMw

Hiatus Kaiyote - The World It Softly Lulls : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqzFgkkQXWw

Kamasi Washington - Changing of the Guard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQRBzSN9Vw

Snarky Puppy - Don't You Know : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqY3FaZmh-Y

Thundercat - Them Changes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNCd_ERZvZM

Jordan Rakei - Talk to Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvdRNi7qQE

Flying Lotus - MmmHmm : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCyv05SG1g

None of these tunes could have been made any time before 2010, and all are clearly jazz (or at least heavily inspired by Jazz). With R&B, (Neo-)Soul, and other jazz forms re-emerging in pop music, Jazz remains the source of much of modern musical innovation.
I am neither Texan nor American, so this is an outsiders perspective:

What I do not get is how the EU can just blatantly ignore this. When one of our politicians travels to an Arab country or to China and does not address the human rights situation clear enough, he or she will be bashed. When Turkey starts talking about reintroducing capital punishment the instant reactions are that this will end the negotiations about EU membership. Capital punishment is a hard line for the EU, if your country has it, it is not considered to value human rights and is out, no further questions asked.

The only people really criticizing the US here (in Germany) are usually haters, who glorify Russia.

It cannot be about the money either, because China is an important partner, too. They have to put up with our obligatory human rights talk every time, while the US has not.
You sound like an idiot, "bro". Sad your buddies had to downvote in validation... your reality remains the same.
You people need to stop saying this kind of stuff. I will bet you $1k on longbets.org that we do not have fully autonomous vehicles operating on public streets in 9 years (i.e. 2025). These types of statements are confusing the non-technical 'tech press' and they are misinforming the public.
coldtea's point is that "difficult" when you can walk away from it and never have to work another day in your life, and "difficult" when getting it wrong means that your life and your childrens' lives are ruined for years, live in two entirely different strata of meaning.
> I'd argue "per annum" or p.a. isn't a foreign term and just standard English.

Did you notice that a fluent English speaker had to ask what "p.a." meant? Do you think that would have happened if it had been written "per year" instead?
1) According to the best available evidence, a sizable majority of Texans favor the death penalty.

2) If you strongly oppose the death penalty, can you provide examples of what you've done to reduce it? You've already noted that you chose to live in a way that provides financial support for the death penalty.. what are you doing to offset that? What organizations do you donate to, or volunteer with? What have you done beyond write a comment on HN? If the answer is 'nothing', then you find the death penalty disagreeable, but you are, on net, supporting it.
Makes me wonder if there are any vulnerabilities in WiFi menus...
It's surprising to see Iceland, New Zealand and Australia that high on the list. They don't have a reputation for being workaholic nations.
CTRL+F "music" & "iTunes" - only one result, as part of the framing by the writer.

Unless Tim & co. decide to confront the reality that they're stepping up "vertical integration" model using the Robber Baron playbook when it comes to the actual arts, I think his "social responsibility" comments mean fuck-all. Go ahead, build a new environmentally friendly compound, that's great, good on you. And how's about that 30% you skim off the top of every non-Drake "Most-Favored-Nation" artist who has to go through your channels or lose out?

Actions about social responsibility speak louder than words, and right now, Braeburn Capital and billions of dollars being slushed around offshore rather than pay the tax to re-patriate those funds means talk is cheap. I'm a contrarian by nature, but I know a puff piece when I see it. So Tim is good at hitting softball questions, whoop-dee-whoo.

Of course it's lonely and isolating at the top of the mountain - just look at Kurt Cobain.
Handel's just boring. https://youtu.be/g65oWFMSoK0?t=8m11s
No, fuck him. He deserves to die.
It was important. It's became part of the argument against austerity. The continued support for it, despite poor evidence that it's useful, has convinced me that austerity exists for something other than promoting the public good.

(That's not the only evidence which lead to my conclusion.)
Just use diffoscope:

http://diffoscope.org/