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It's a little harsh. Not everyone can afford a top-quality architect.

And mixing styles (the main criticism of this article) is not always a bad thing: Chartres Cathedral is considered a masterpiece, despite it's weird mixed spires.
Have you heard of Sandstorm.io?

Documents: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/h37dm17aa89yrd8zuqpdn36p6zntum...

Spreadsheets: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/a0n6hwm32zjsrzes8gnjg734dh6jwt...

Files: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8aspz4sfjnp8u89000mh2v1xrdyx97...

Team chat: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/vfnwptfn02ty21w715snyyczw0nqxk...

Kanban/Trello: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/m86q05rdvj14yvn78ghaxynqz7u2sv...

GitLab: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/zx9d3pt0fjh4uqrprjftgpqfwgzp6y...

Tons more: https://apps.sandstorm.io
If they had let this through and people got owned because of it people would be screaming at Mozilla. Damned if they do...
This has already happened. See Geofeedia: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/geofeedia-surveillance-softwa...
I am genuinely interested.

Also, I just realized that doing this right might require dropping lots of legacy C++ code, more or less as would starting in Rust.
Correcting link: https://github.com/joelewis/hnlive/blob/master/notes.md
> SSNs aren't guaranteed unique

They're supposed to be, however sometimes they aren't. That's a bureaucratic and easily solvable issue, however.
Probably not a good idea to update the framework without the application knowing. This could cause bugs and unspecified behavior. It's best to test your application against new versions and then deploy a new version of the app.
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20 year olds don't play in leagues coached by parents. It's fine for leagues to be competitive. However, for the most part, it's the parents who care about winning and losing in the leagues for young kids, not the kids themselves.
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It's turtles all the way down.

I think you'll find that many of the activities they want us to use a federally-acceptable ID for are not, themselves, covered in Article I Section 8.
The criticism in the article wasn't about people on a limited budget owning big houses. It was about the lack of architectural cohesiveness in the big houses they do build.
First, you got it backwards: denormalization joins relations, normalization splits them;

Second, if they share the same key, then it's not normalization, as the the split relations have distinct keys.
Even the new apartment/townhome complexes could be considered "McApartments".

That's a problem here in SF, too. Andrea Palladio would have wept.
One thing that has always puzzled me is the cheap materials thing. My parent's house, though not a McMansion, is in a neighborhood full of them and made of the same materials.

It's held up perfectly for ~10 years and plenty of hurricanes (some that happened while it was in the middle of being built!). What's the problem with the current materials?
That's true but Europe is full of large houses that are hundreds of years old, so there isn't as much need for new building. Plus if you look at neighborhoods in say, Belgium or the Netherlands, people value (ahem) architectural conformity quite a bit more, as opposed to individual taste.
Don't like it? Then don't buy one.
That's totally fair! I'm in the suburbs, so public transit isn't an option here, and I rarely think about it unless I'm traveling.
Hey Show HN!

Here's my first project that I've built. I like to think of it as a nuzzel for live tweets that is user-centric. I'm looking for critical feedback and ideas to iterate towards awesome. You can sort your twitter feed by various attributes like activity, likes, and retweets. I'd love to answer any questions or concerns you may have!
I kind of feel like this relevant to how the feds operate.

https://youtu.be/b3fIRQa8vys?t=109
> If you enjoy probabilistic arguments, then you'll appreciate why I think that B-vN probes are inevitable.

You seem to be under the impression that I wasn't familiar with that argument, even though I explicitly described it as "the probability that any civilization will colonize the galaxy with a runaway drone program that can be easily detected". I don't think there is a person in this thread who doesn't understand the basic assumption.

Your claim of inevitability only applies to an infinite amount of time, so in our universe at this point in time the number can still be (and probably is) zero.

So I'm trying to talk about a more refined model instead, namely one that tries to at least reserve room for factors such as the overall number of active civilizations, and the likelihood that we actually discover a drone.

To start off with, we have no idea what the probability of a single civilization colonizing the galaxy with drones even is, and we're also making a lot of implicit assumptions about the nature of these drones. The argument that "one case is enough" is valid, but still the overall likelihood of that one very specific case may be too low.

There is also the possibility of drones going by undetected. We don't know what the drones' navigation algorithm would look like, but it's at least conceivable that some solar systems might have been left out altogether. Finally, I'm not sure if we could necessarily detect moderate drone activity in the outer solar system at all.
Maybe you are just an outlier?
It seems to be a typical postmodern viewpoint that every idea is equally valid. But even if you're not "racist, sexist, xenophobic, or accepting sexual assault", if you, as a reasonably minded individual, back Trump, you're condoning all of these things, which is really just as bad ... Not everybody's idea is valid!
The point is that you could have a good but affordable fireplace that looks good in its own right, rather than a cheap imitation of something pricey that you can't afford.
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But Angular only reads HTML that it's told to read, specified by the "ng-app" attribute/directive.
I believe the commenters so far have failed to address the main point: the devil is in the details. And everyone knows why the details suck in this category of McMansion: they are spec houses designed by beancounters. They represent the aggregate current view of what would have maximum curb appeal. That is the only design criteria for such houses.
Indeed. Most of the 'McManshionish' stuff is more expensive.
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Not every island is populated by people, but every island is populated with life. Any kind of self replicated probe should take on similar ubiquity.
>Did you put it on your build server without installing Visual Studio on it?

Huh?

`docker run microsoft/dotnet`. Took about 2 seconds to get it running on my Jenkins build server. In reality, it took literally no effort. My entire full stack app requires `make` and `docker` to build and nothing else. The backend is an AspNetCore API.
He wrote a review of Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky: http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2013/04/david-foster-wallace-d...
From an editorial perspective that digression wouldn't have added a whole lot to the point of the page. What would you be hoping to communicate?
> the highest level players (yes, there are professional FIFA players) actually play the game much closer to what you're referring to as the optimal style of play: short ground passes, keeping possession, playing backwards to keep possession, very little trying to beat your man one-on-one, creating chances by making runs, defending by jockeying your man without gambling, and good shots from good positions

I played the NHL series of games at a high level for a while and saw a lot of what you describe there, too. Tons of people just trying to run it up the ice and hammer away at the goal, but if you played it akin to how an actual hockey game is played you'd see a lot of opportunities open up.
If ETs are expected to be found, where are the [extremely specific hypothetical construct that depends on certain technologies that may or may not be possible and a unique cultural context that isn't even universal to humanity, let alone all known life]?

I don't know. Maybe the vast, sentient ooze of distant moons doesn't understand why anyone would want to explore the universe. Maybe the dissipant entities of gas giants don't use materials commonly found in the rest of space for construction. Maybe the chittering hivemind of habitable worlds reached incredible advancement without developing a concept of individual intelligence, and thus has no understanding of how to make a single self-sufficient AI on a probe. Maybe there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in etc.
You're clearly forgetting (or choosing to ignore) the part that says Citizens have the right to vote - not "every person".

ID'ing voters is simply a mechanism to protect Citizen's rights, as well as the integrity of our democracy.
Is there any language whose name for the country that calls itself Deutschland looks anything like "Deutschland"?

There is: it's called "Duitsland" in Dutch (and no, "Dutch" does not refer to the language spoken in Deutschland ;)

However, I'm not aware of any language that refers to Greece by its native name ( Ἑλλάς, "Hellas").
There's a ton of space in the US between the coasts[1], so people have become accustomed to large houses that they can make "their own", so to speak. It's just a different culture.

[1] A lot of it is still unused! My hometown in Texas has actually "grown" in the past ten years towards unused land to build new neighborhoods and schools. I can't imagine that there's large amounts of land in Europe to build entire new communities, right?
His statement was literally correct, and useful in highlighting a different perspective on what is known to be known. The negativity seems to stem from not taking it literally.
care to explain?
Well, there's https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issueco... ...
Is it possible to buy good craftsmanship these days? I'm asking this in all earnest, not to make a rhetorical point; does anyone know of businesses in the US today that can build a house that will endure like a 1920s Craftsman?

If so, who are they, and where do they operate -- what businesses should I contact?
The "Switch" appears to mean many things, but also a "Switch" (for their non-gameboy/DS systems) to the ARM platform and a break from the PowerPC-based systems of the past.

Which means breaking compatibility, but certainly makes it possible for them to lower costs reduce power consumption and iterate more quickly.
You're assuming that the democratic process is best served by having the largest number of people voting as possible. I, and Mike Rowe for another, don't believe that.

Democracy is not best served by voters who don't fully understand the issues. Someone who's not willing to invest the effort in getting proper ID (or one of the other ways of voting, like an absentee ballot) is likely also not investing much in becoming educated on the issues.

IMHO, setting a low threshold to weed out folks who are voting on a whim, without having invested in the process, will help the project of democracy.
But we know that the sensor suite must be at least as good as a human; more vision, plus other sensors. Therefore we know the sensor suite is sufficient to be as good as (and likely better than) a human.
She discusses that in Eclecticism. She uses pictures throughout to demonstrate the difference between mixing well and badly.
Out of the box you say? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...
We're in the safest era in human history. How many more rights would you like to give up for more security?
My dotnet core containers are rebuilt from scratch and redeployed every 20 minutes or so. If there's a security bug in the base OS layer of my container or in the .NET runtime, I'll have it in less than a half hour.

Not too hard, if you have some standard practices in place.
Sure, but if we're going to look let's look in those places that are generating the kind of evidence we'd expect to see which are showing interesting behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852
Well those roundabouts do give them an unfair advantage. All joking aside, that video was of a research vehicle. The article above is for a car you can buy right now.
GNU password manager for me, which interacts with the clipboard (or lets you do so on your own if you prefer).

The same is true of Keepass for windows, although IIRC you can also let Keepass actually alt-tab to the last window and do the typing for you.
She does have that a bit, too, but the blog is new and its in bits here and there.
I think the argument can be made that for the same money someone could build a mansion that also doesn't look awful.
When I started flirting with Ruby and Rails for building a web app backed by a JSON API, DRF is what convinced me to stick with Django. It has a ridiculous amount of built-in functionality, but without making it hard to customize your API. If you haven't used DRF, you really owe it to yourself to give it a try.

I can't wait to see support for real-time views. Is that in the cards for DRF 3.6?
For those that are asking:

- Multi-regional is what we used to call Standard (highlighting that it's always been awesome and replicated)

- Regional / DRA collapse into one

- New offering: Coldline

- Massive price cut on operations

- Per-object storage class, plus lifecycle (e.g., automatically go from Nearline to Coldline after 60d)

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and use Nearline at home!).

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Seems like the same thing - isn't that pretty tied up to "don't have the budget for a 'proper' architect"? Design is a get-what-you-pay-for field. Do it piecemeal vs a single grand unified vision from the start and you end up with something easier to pay for but less ideal.
I dunno. The Switch seems to have a lot of focus on local multiplayer. And with how portable it is, I can definitely imagine heading over to my local gaming store to find someone else that I can play with.
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Isn't that mostly an argument to fix broken bureaucracies around IDs?

And they are broken, to be sure. I recently moved away from NJ, but when I was there, renewing my driver's license was a real chore. Their antiquated computer system can't hold a string as long as "Christopher", so they abbreviate on my DL. That becomes a problem at renewal time, because my DL does not match my other IDs, so I always must supply my birth certificate, and jump through other hoops.

That system is broken, and needs fixing irrespective of voting rights.
It's not the "some sort of vulnerability", it's a critical vulnerability in the design of the Angular v1, a long known vulnerability in fact.
Absolutely. The key is in the general contractor (GC). One accustomed to doing better work will know the right subcontractors (subs). For instance, those that specialize in restoration, remodeling, and repair in historical districts.
Incentivizing high density development via tax policy and removing needless regulations are not mutually exclusive.
This is the equivalent of graphic designers presenting alternate proposals for boarding passes and Craigslist. They're not wrong, and for those with a specific sort of sensibility, the "imperfections" can be grating, but for 99% of the population, they don't even notice and it works just fine.
Thank you for your involvement! You seem like a reasonable person and the more reasonable people we have in these capacities, the better.
removing the sandbox just removes the illusion of being protected.
Note that the Angular team is working with Mozilla and the researcher on this (see https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issueco...) and that NDAs are a real, if insane, thing still to this day, and there is literally no way to legally compel any party to admit to being under NDA except in a court of law.

Should the researcher have told the Angular team? Yes. Should they have told the entire world? Probably no. Should Mozilla tell the world? Probably even less no. As long as the parties are talking (which they are), this is an unfinished security review on lock-down to prevent exploitation in the interrim.
I really doubt it will have a touch screen. You wouldn't be able to use it when it's docked, which means games would have to be designed such that touch is completely unnecessary to the experience, so why even bother trying to cram it in?
The issue with Angular in extensions has to do with the fact it uses eval on the page DOM, which is controlled by the webpage. The webpage can put code into the DOM, and then let Angular execute it from within the higher-privileged extension.

Angular <1.6 had a sandbox feature which blacklisted specific attacks like this, but was not a general solution and was specifically not intended as a security feature. They entirely removed the sandbox in 1.6 because people kept thinking it was a security feature: http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/09/angular-16-expression-...

I'm not going to fault someone for not reporting a specific vulnerability with a specifically not-security feature that has already been removed.
"In 10 years" is a bit misleading, because that's just the construction time. You need to also take into account the time it took to go from "this would be a good idea" to actually starting to dig, because that's where the SF situation is currently bogged down.

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/route/crossrail-from-its-early-be... says the idea was first seriously proposed in 1974, and was then raised, dropped and batted around at various levels of politics for another 25 years before getting to "serious funded detailed feasibility study" in 2002, which didn't get the final go-ahead until 2008 (with the construction phase then being the 10 years after that and ending 2018).
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Ask HN: Heroku for content
As someone who works extensively with marketing teams, often times - content is available but has not been formatted appropriately for the medium. Like a newsletter cannot work in the same way as a blog post which cannot work for SEO driven articles. Is there interest at HN for a Heroku for content where you could build foundational sentences, express your intent and we can figure out the right medium and the right message?
This. I've recently been working with a large project using Node. I find myself constantly thinking about how I'd build it if I were using DRF.
> Subjective though it may be, there are a lot of people who find black-on-white unpleasant to look at

Like staring at a light-bulb. I prefer a light grey as a background.
Most people don't build houses. Most people buy houses that other people build. Therefore, most people don't care that the houses other people build are "McMansions".
The most interesting thing to me is a design decision that combines an important aspect of the original NES with an important aspect of all of Nintendo's portable machines since the DS: a reduced barrier to entry for multiple people to play. In 1989, every NES sold came with two controllers out of the box. Similarly, every portable Nintendo system since the original DS has supported Download Play, which requires each player to have their own console, but only a single copy of a game.

It looks like you'll be able to use the standard Switch controller as two "half controllers." Sure, you get limited functionality, but one person with one standard (portable!) console and one multiplayer game like Mario Kart can say those all-important words to anyone, anytime: "Want to play?"
This is a smart move. Tesla doesn't want to be disintermediated. Besides ride sharing is a commercial use application and may be costly to their warranty.
> Probably because people with experience know how to handle these things up front so that they don't occur. bla bla bla.

especially if you are dealing with a large code base with shifting requirements, where the code has been written over a long time by a lot of people; in a real world system you just can't make these assumptions regarding 'skill' at all. Even skilled people will have to deal with issues like invalidated iterators / containers that have been modified in non obvious ways / lots of other goodies as well.

there are a lot of projects/products like this, my guess is that this is the case with the majority of projects.
At-birth SSN issuance is a relatively recent innovation, and there are living people born before that time. Paying into SS is not mandatory in the sense that it is perfectly legal to accept employment from one of the many (mostly public agency, but IIRC there are also some narrow exceptions in private industry) employers who are not mandated to, and have not chosen to, pay into SS.
> nothing happened

On the contrary - they reacted removing sandbox completely giving up handling sandbox bypassing snippets, the problem is in the design of the framework and it can't be just fixed.
http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/151896249151/the-mcmansion...
Thanks! I was imagining a star suddenly going dim and staying that way. This does not appear to be that.
Even if we grant all these points as correct, not everyone shares the same aesthetic sense as professional architects. As long as you like your own home, it really doesn't matter what other people think of it.

And I find the last bit of the article truly scary -- bragging over fan mail sent to the site about how this type of critique is letting people verbalize and validate their own instinctive hate for their neighbor's design choices. Is that really a net positive to our society? To use critique as a mechanism to feed negativity between neighbors?
My Chrome 53.0.2785.143 froze within 5 seconds of opening cachep2p.com.
Isn't that the point? In business in order to capture the entire market you have to release products at different price points. Some people want to pay Ferrari prices for their car, some people want to pay civic prices.

Apple does this: even though the 7 is the current line, they still sell the 6 and SE. You have to figure people are actually buying these older models, even though they're not that much cheaper (the SE starts at $400 and has the iPhone 5s design)

I'll add another example: Campbells makes soup in three tiers, from the cheap condensed stuff, to the premixed stuff, to Campbell's Slow Kettle Style which comes in nicer packaging and better design (I haven't tried it, maybe it tastes better too)
Say a 1080p monitor display is completely randomized, until it shows a clear visible five-pointed star. Given I'm looking at a star, what is the likelihood there is another one on the screen? Practically 0, I'd think. Why is the emergence of an intelligent civilization in the universe different, assuming I take a multiverse and the anthropic principle seriously?

(In other words, given that a universe could have multiple intelligent civilizations, why is it the case that if I'm in a random sample with at least one, there is likely to be another?)
True. In a way this is kind of analogous to how Apple 'fanboys'/users behave when new features are introduced in iPhones but have already been present in Android for many years prior to that.
@Austria: which is normally just the "Kollektivvertrag" which (hopefully) nobody works for. And that renders it useless unfortunately too.
There are a LOT of people who think they should be able to substitute their own judgment for other people's when it comes to the home they live in.
This should be a movie. The screen play writes itself!