skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no market. People who need $500 apartments get subsidies. In my city, the rent for a fancy suburban apartment is within 15% of a ghetto hole with people selling heroin out front. Now there’s a new market for dual-income, no kids and retirees who want very fancy stuff in the city.

That “$1000” apartment is a sweet spot for builders. The cost of building out a smaller, high density apartment is higher due to more trade work (plumbing, electrical, etc) and more risk abatement for building codes and ADA compliance.
There's a huge amount of fairly boring work to write a DOM implementation (if you want half the APIs the web expects to work with the right semantics, you can't use an existing library), and layout is incredibly hard to get right (especially in a web compatible way). I think it's totally doable for a single person to do HTML + CSS2.1, with no scripting support, especially if you're happy to leverage existing libraries.

The big difference with most existing browser developers is the majority know a lot of the web platform inside out—but that's mostly a matter of having worked on an implementation for a long time and having to worry about edge-cases and interactions no web developer would ever think of. There's certainly a few who have achieved a huge amount for individual developers—but that's not a trait unique to the browser sphere.
The question is to know how much it costs, sometimes they also want to know if they'll meet some external deadline.
The mental state of the mother while she's pregnant has a significant effect on the baby. For example if the mother has a lot of stress the baby will have symptoms of that stress years later.

Imo: that goes to show that mother and baby share feelings during the childbearing process. If negative feelings are pushed down to the baby. Then it would make sense that positive feelings are too.
Its a miscarriage of science and justice, when publicly funded science goes behind a journal paywall.

People should be able to access what their taxes funded, and increase communication around science.

I really agree with this quote from the article.

“Access to science is going to be a first-world privilege,” Geltner says. “That’s the opposite of what science is supposed to be about.”
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Well, there are. I'm studying philosophy, for example and while I'm interested in tech I can't say I understand much of it. I come here for the interesting mix of news and refreshingly critical points of view.
All the examples use the untranspiled version which is comptabile with the browsers listed here: https://github.com/bendc/animateplus#browser-support
Yeah but on mobile it's annoying to type % .. it's so much faster to just swipe the address bar
Tech workers flee US, blame Trump
Nadine Dorries: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday
Those protect people not citizens. You’re right that’s not how it’s popularly understood but it’s why we have Gitmo: it’s an attempt to apply a thin veneer of legitimacy by pretending it’s a military proceeding (as if theres exceptions for those in the documents you mentioned) and keeping it as far outside the purview of judicial legal analysis as possible.
Only to the iOS versions currently being signed, which doesn't provide a huge selection. https://ipsw.me/ provides a nifty way to see what is available.
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> we should also encourage the use of the "lesser" browsers like Dillo, NetSurf, and all the text-based ones. They can't really run "web apps" and the like, but will be fine for viewing the "long tail" of content-focused sites out there

Perhaps this is a knee-jerk reaction on my part, but I'm against initiatives that resist technological progress, including those that rail against modern web applications.

Not only do these initiatives seem doomed to lose against the nearly unstoppable forward march of technology, but they are coming at the problem from the wrong direction. If it's too hard for independent efforts to succeed, we should not be fighting in vain to hold back progress. Instead we should be working on efforts to increase the abilities of independent contributors. We should be making it easier for anyone to build a modern browser. That's something that more technologists could actually get behind.

Further, while there's nothing wrong with a little nostalgia, let's not forget how far things have come. Many instances of modern web applications are certainly flawed, broken, misguided, overkill. But the web as a platform today is unfathomably better today than it was in the 90s. The applications built on top of it have massively empowered individuals and augmented our productivity. And I'm happy that I can build for the web instead of for Windows.

The fact that some websites do a poor job using the new tools available is a small price to pay.
If you connect to any hotspot with a captive portal, you would need to deal with the portal again every 5 minutes.
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You would do well to do more research than a simple google dictionary lookup.

But you likely wont put the work or the effort into understanding the difference nor would you understand the inherent dangers of democracy

I believe this grand experiment of a constitutionally bound republic has ran its course and what follows will be more misery for the poor.

Property rights, free markets, individual rights.... these are the eroded cornerstones folks are crapping on ... while reaping the benefits of them
No. Small capsules are impractical in LA, because the infrastructure requires a car.

Don’t blame the building code. Those cars need to go somewhere!
Oddly enough t-shirt sized estimates work well.

get a sense whether task is S, M, L, or XL from developers etc... and then multiply it by whatever factor you think S-XL should be in hours/days.

people can't seem to provide time-base estimates - but generally have a good sense of a complexity of a problem.
FWIW I wrote mine up here:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/03/how-i-manage-my-time/
Nice. I'd be interested in that and love small footprint libraries. Do you have a comparison with http://velocityjs.org/ or other popular alternatives?
Ask HN: Recommend a platform to learn web dev?
Hi,

I have basic experience with web dev way back in 2010, using Ruby on Rails & jQuery.

I want to learn modern web dev which seems much more complex.

I am completely agnostic to language/platform, the #1 priority is an ecosystem which has a good understanding and exposition of key and modern ideas. This means documentation, open source projects and chatrooms. Ease of tooling is also a big plus.

What would you recommend? React.js + CSS + backend server seems good, but the tooling is a little scary. And its documentation doesn't seem to explain the key ideas behind modern apps that well.
> In the last several years, I was at two companies that got rid of all their previous code, and did radical re-writes of everything:

Over the last few years the best work I've done has been to take what existed and slowly refactor it into something better.

Well, I say slowly, but the refactors themselves were often quick. I try to identify the most common pain points - for both users and developers - and eliminate those as quickly as possible. The overall codebase might not get better at a crazy rate that way, but the developer experience goes up, meaning fewer bugs, meaning quicker iteration times and more confidence making changes that should be easy but so often are not.

And the end result of that two or three years on is a significant improvement in the quality of the code, the number of bugs - breaking or otherwise -
that users encounter, and often times a manyfold decrease in the total LOC that need to be maintained.

I've tried rewriting some things as well: but even when it's a literal requirement in order to switch underlying platforms, it still causes a lot more friction than refactoring does. I've got three projects right now where the deadlines have massively slipped, and I'm now at the point where I'm looking to try to take some of the rewrites and backport them to the original platform just so that migration goes a little easier when the rest of the pieces fall into place.
I like to say, "my gut says X days. But I'll have to get back to you." I think there's a lot value in having the conversation with the PM or manager or whomever in the moment. And being non-committal is frustrating for the other parties.
Features would you like to see:

* be able to display my own APIs, not just Google's

* make it open source, under a suitable license.

Swagger/OpenAPI's UI is great & open source. It is based on the OpenAPI standard. Why isn't APIs Explorer doing it too?
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2 questions:

Is there some VAT (or sales tax, as I think you call it) applied to rents in the USA?

If so, is it included in the figures of the article or when people comment here and quote rent figures?
Governments can not "grant" rights, they can only "violate" them.
So my understanding is following Netscape's acquisition of DigitalStyle, the decision was made to replace Netscape's existing layout engine with something based on what DigitalStyle had in their editor (which, unlike Netscape's existing one, supported things like reflow), and it was this combination that was open-sourced. Notably, it was only really the layout engine that was replaced: the HTML parser and the JS VM survived unchanged, hence the name NGLayout for what became Gecko.
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I believe hendzen was referring to using partition on a table in mysql.

Mariadb has an example walkthrough on this: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/partition-maintenance/#par... .

The only change that I'd recommend considering, is we use partition by list, instead of range, and keep a weeks worth of daily future partitions. This makes it so you don't have to reorganize the table. On the other hand it means if you get future data it can fail and if your partition jobs have issues for a week you can fail to load data all together.

Using partitions for time series data help also due to partition pruning, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/partitioning-pruning... .
3 weeks minus 2 months...I'd probably ask if that means it might be done already
I take some issue with statement "Workers are afraid to speak up".

Workers that don't own their own means of some kind of production are working for someone else. So its reasonable to be afraid when your livelihood, people have families to support.
The point about cultures of "meaness" and "niceness" misses the mark. People are afraid of being out-grouped or becoming a social pariah for reasonable reasons such losing a job, getting blacklists, being undermined secretly, and etc.

In the current climate of extreme witchhunts, it is wiser to be quiet rather than risk the wrath of fickle masses.

EDIT: The speaking up context is in reference to project/organization feedback (office politics not government politics).
There are many shades of feminism. Some women believe that modest clothing such as headscarves are empowering, shifting the focus on character rather than physical appearance, while other feminists will strongly disagree. For me it’s easier to accept that feminism is just an umbrella term for women’s right to do anything as she pleases just as easily as men can.

Plus it’s always in continuous change. Example: currently in the U.K. there’s a hot debate between (some) feminists and trans women [1] but who knows in the future, it would be 100% feminist to accept all self-identifying females as valid females.

Slightly off topic: Feminisim is a bit of a messy subject (imo), I wonder if one can have a clearer picture if it’s expressed in logical terms :o

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/26/transgender-...
> The problem is the rent control apartments in NYC skew the data and does make it apple to apple

Last time I checked, rent controlled apartments make up ~1% of housing units in the city, and that number decreases all the time (because the supply of rent controlled apartments is constantly decreasing). So, I think I'd need to see a citation that rent control has any serious effects on NYC housing prices.

I'm not saying that 1% couldn't have larger effects, but given the small amount of rent-controlled units I think the burden of proof is on you here.

> Rural NY to Rural TX, I will bet anytime that Rural TX is cheaper especially in the Rio Grande Valley and West Texas.

Why? I think you have a very different picture in mind of what rural NY looks like. There are a ton of extremely poor towns and cities up near Rochester and Buffalo. Lots and lots of rust belt remnants in the western part of the state that haven't recovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt#/media/File:Total_mf...

Maybe it's $50 for a 1 bedroom in west Texas vs. $60 for a 1 bedroom on the outskirts of Hammond NY, but I don't think that's a very meaningful difference.
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This SNES headphones are a retro gaming treasure and they even work for real
That's a really deep statement about the nature of existence. A mathematical theorem exists, even if the underlying structure is not represented in reality. We know that spacetime is warped by mass distribution, and is therefore non-Euclidean. However, the Pythagorean theorem is still something that exists, despite applying only to Euclidean space.

In the same way, a Platonic solid could be said to exist, even if it isn't represented in reality.
Most of the data predates Toyota, and many of those HQs are in the NW side where several cities intersect. The reason, I suspect, is that the article chooses top 100 cities by population, so Plano squeezes in. It does not have a ton of apartments, but the ones it has, especially west, are expensive and fairly new. Most of the inhabitants, in my experience, are service industry to serve the otherwise (former?) highest income per household city, meaning many spend a large portion on rent. That's one theory... the other being it's just a few % points putting them up there and may be just the current multifamily real estate swing.
Just keep in mind that estimation != promise. Make estimations to help you plan your time, but never commit these to management who turns them into promises.
Wind farms are a blight on the landscape, but suburban sprawl, massive parking lots, 6-lane highways still backed up with traffic, giant gas guzzling cars, coal power plants, and air pollution are beautiful.

I'm not sure how you don't understand this. /s
I ran into some minor glitches trying to install and use DeepSpeech couple of days ago. I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon enough but meanwhile hope this helps: https://www.phpied.com/taking-mozillas-deepspeech-for-a-spin...
Interesting! From a quick google the following wikipedia citation seems to what you are referring to:
Grounds for removal include cases where the search result(s) "appear to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant or excessive in the light of the time that had elapsed."[1]

Under GDPR, Security trails (company or person that operates it) could be classified as a "Data controller" [2] and then would of course be liable to delete information gathered about a person upon request and when the data is deemed to be "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant or excessive".
So for example, John Doe wants to remove the historic information that he used to own porn.com which he doesn't anymore.

However, I do not think it's clear that you have to delete the data for the current owner of porn.com due to his or hers need for privacy as long as they have collect the information lawfully.

As an actual advice to the people at security trails I would recommend they put up clear instructions on how to request a data erasure from their database. Like "Email erasure@securitytrails.com to request removal of your personal information" and what information they need to delete it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Spain_v_AEPD_and_Mario_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

Edit: formatting
In terms of performance, it outperforms all the animation libraries I’ve tried ( you can compare the stress test linked at the bottom of the page with this version made with GreenSock: http://animateplus.com/examples/stress-test/gsap/ ). In terms of weight and parse time, it’s also the fastest afaict. That being said, it’s not as powerful as GreenSock for example as it mainly focuses on performance and simplicity.
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The cynic in me thinks they probably sell that data now.
Nope, not in any state I'm aware of. in fact in some states with property taxes, you can deduct the portion of your rent that would be used for the property tax by the landlord from your state taxes.
Yeah my point was NY does have much rent control.

From the passage of the Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1997 to the Rent Act of 2011, rent stabilization was restricted to apartments where the legal, or stabilized, rent was under $2,000 per month. The 2011 law raised that to $2,500. The unit could be deregulated once the rent went above $2,000 under the 1997 law, $2,500 under the 2011 Act, and is either vacant or the household adjusted gross income was over $175,000 under the 1997 act or is $200,000 under the 2011 law, for two consecutive years.[1
That "gut estimate" converts to a concrete deadline in your PMs mind before you put a period at the end of your sentence.
Pre-MIR, I'm fairly sure the people who would touch the type/lifetime checker could be counted on one hand, and it was borderline obfuscated due to all the pointless type theory thrown around.

RFCs would still get rejected as "postponed" if it wasn't possible to implement them (i.e dependent on MIR). Implementability was the deciding factor from what I could see, though compiler improvements would usually render them un-postponed/rejected later.

Overall I think the lack of an actual specification hamstrung it real bad, since everything past one step ahead only existed in peoples heads. And, at least me for me, it can't replace C++ (in every situation) as much as I'd prefer not to have to use that abomination of a language.
Gnu Autoconf is the epitome of FUBAR Bazaar.

>This is probably also why libtool's configure probes no fewer than 26 different names for the Fortran compiler my system does not have, and then spends another 26 tests to find out if each of these nonexistent Fortran compilers supports the -g option.

>That is the sorry reality of the bazaar Raymond praised in his book: a pile of old festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT "professionals" who wouldn't recognize sound IT architecture if you hit them over the head with it. It is hard to believe today, but under this embarrassing mess lies the ruins of the beautiful cathedral of Unix, deservedly famous for its simplicity of design, its economy of features, and its elegance of execution. (Sic transit gloria mundi, etc.)

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

Criticism

There is some criticism that states that Autoconf uses dated technologies, has a lot of legacy restrictions, and complicates simple scenarios unnecessarily for the author of configure.ac scripts. In particular, often cited weak points of Autoconf are:

General complexity of used architecture, most projects use multiple repetitions.

Generated 'configure' is written in Bourne shell and thus Makefile generation is slow.

Some people think that 'configure' scripts generated by autoconf provide only manual-driven command-line interface without any standardization. While it is true that some developers do not respect common conventions, such conventions do exist and are widely used.

M4 is unusual and unknown to many developers. Developers will need to learn it to extend autoconf with non-standard checks.

Weak backward and forward compatibility requires a wrapper script.

Autoconf-generated scripts are usually large and rather complex. Although they produce extensive logging, debugging them can still be difficult.

Due to these limitations, several projects that used GNU Build System switched to different build systems, such as CMake and SCons.
Ehhh not expensive if you go out to, say, Brownsville. Brooklyn is much, much more than just Williamsburg and Park Slope.
You're wrong. By getting into the school, and then acting the part well, you can make a friend who gives you an opportunity to get into the class.
Two interesting quotes from the linked paper:

> It is very important that after the meeting, the offending employee receive an official, written summary of the meeting which outlines the next steps in the remediation. The employee should be required to acknowledge that the summary is accurate. Interveners might have to repeat this last step, because the rule offender can find it distressing to acknowledge the meeting’s having taken place

> Richard Cook (1998) has pointed out that complex systems such as healthcare are intrinsically hazardous in that they invariably contain changing mixtures of failures, weaknesses, and expertise, and always run in a “degraded” mode.

By always running in degraded mode, it's not meant that degraded is the normal state, but that even in a degraded mode everything continues to run. You don't realize the extent of the degradation as long as the gears keep turning.
Many cities/towns have "rental taxes" that are charged to the owner. These can either be a flat-fee for a rental license or a percentage of rental income. Most owners just build this expense into the monthly rent cost so the tenant never sees or thinks about it.
I’m hoping Let’s Encrypt will do S/MIME someday. Most email clients support S/MIME.
This is actually not true. You can't do it in stable rust, but on nightly slice destructuring has been possible for a while now (just as the compile error indicates).

See:

- https://doc.rust-lang.org/unstable-book/language-features/sl...

- https://doc.rust-lang.org/unstable-book/language-features/ad...
The value of the ecosystem is that each component does its part and each other component that has interaction with that component reaps the rewards. This leads to a natural evolution of components in the ecosystem (for instance, DRF evolved out of the need for better REST support, since projects like Tasty Pie were lacking thing that the rest of the ecosystem desired).

The idea that anything of value has to be nationalized and assimilated by the framework is a misguided effort to prevent chaos in the ecosystem, but the end result of trying to maintain order in an emergent ecosystem is usually disaster.
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Exec pay is reported and published, required by law.
Functional exceptionless error-handling with optional and expected
Seems as wrong, not as illegal. Legal is a specific technical standard.
I was present for the initial Quantum discussions. The entire idea behind Quantum was to integrate the most mature part of Research's work into Firefox on a short time frame. Without that impetus, it's pretty safe to say there wouldn't have been a Quantum.
> Basic technologies like PDF rendering used to be stuff that they had nailed down extremely well.

I have yet to find a pdf viewer which does anti-aliasing right except acrobat reader. If you have two colored objects with a common edge on a white background, that edge will be lighter in color.