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> a longer school year helps students stay focused

My kids (4th and 7th) attend a school with a year-round schedule, and we (kids and parents) love it:

* They are less stressed because there is more breaks throughout the year. Teachers seem less stressed, too, because they don't have to pack so much in.

* They retain more in the summer.

* Outside of academics: it's really nice to have the option to take longer vacations outside of spring break and summer break.

I'd love to see more schools move to it... 3 months off in summer seems very antiquated in hindsight.
We went in with that approach - we got married earlier this year in a lovely little restaurant surrounded by 30 of our friends and family. The venue was happy to have us as long as we bought roughly as much food/booze as they would normally sell. We had the whole kit and kaboodle there, and because there was only 30 of us they could go all out on food - it was some of the best food I've ever eaten. We had a great, intimate night and walked out with no debt. Wouldn't change it for the world.
- Historical figures are rarely fully known quantities, and are often more sketch than photograph. They are a gestalt of poorly recorded memory.

- Historical figures are people and are capable of both horrible acts of cruelty and cowardice, just as much as they are simultaneously capable of exalted acts of kindness and insight.

- Historical figures are not gods nor are they devils, they are, foremost, human; they, if they existed, were as complex as you or I.

- It follows then that notable historical figures are just as flawed as the rest of us in every respect.

- Notable historical figures worthy to be held to account for their failings as well as their successes.

- In general, those with power have obtained it by taking it from others. Rarely, there are exceptions.

- The stories of life are always abridged; minor characters are removed. Those silent partners are often where the balance of the equation of power lies. Watch for the shadows of the forgotten.

- In evaluating the merit of an achievement, the means by which the ends are achieved often better reflect the toll the end exacts.

- In evaluating the merit of morals and means against ends, one must understand the measures of the time and place in which the price was paid. Often, the price is still being paid; the interest on debt must be considered.

- In determining if an action is worthy of praise now and worth repeating in the future, the measures of the time and place the action was committed must be weighed against the measures of the present.

- Foremost, tread cautiously - you tread a path which no longer exists; indeed, the path may never have existed.
Right, but if you have a county-wide increase in property value of 10%. Good school districts might see a 20% increase while bad school districts see no appreciation.

Also, there's first time homebuyers and deaths or people leaving the country/country to consider. People enter and exit the market all the time, it's not a perfect 1:1 swap all the time.

I think it's a valid point that county/state/national economic growth is rarely uniform.
It depends how much you weigh “Does the charter school actually teach my child better than a public school”(statistically, no, and they might even teach worse!) and also “do I care about exposing my child to people they’re different from”(ie. Avoiding them being stuck in a bubble) and also “am I unable to find another environment for intellectual pursuits”(clubs, extracurriculars, etc. when I was young there were definitely after-school schooling available for smart kids, and at school you can stay late for science teachers to teach you more science).
> bare minimum should be maintaining 60 FPS

Yours would be a nice world to live in.

I've seen IntelliJ and Eclipse both crawl when doing "basic editing tasks". Hell, Vim does it too if your line length is long.
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please make it in VR I will buy it for my mother I promise
HN is not an entity that says things, you're referring to specific people. Yeah, it is known that there are many supporting various despicable practices.

If you cared about doing the right thing instead of keeping score you would support this criticism of Google (and also criticize Apple and others).
It's interesting to me how we, as humans, ascribe more value to things based on previous ownership. Why is a watch worth $35000 if President <X> owned it, but only $350 if not? Is it not the same watch?
> In other words, anyone moving to a house in a good school district leaves an empty house in a worse one.

Exactly. More demand for a fixed supply in the "good" school district, reduced demand for a fixed supply in the "bad" one. Property taxes are in some part based on the demand for houses as reflected in the assessment price. So even assuming that the market keeps those houses occupied by owners, long term the trend will be towards larger tax revenues for the good district, which drives a larger budget for education, which in turn attracts more demand for the homes.
That's all we have from digging up most historical buildings. People build careers on determining a building's use based on things like door width and wall thickness.
Either I pay the AWS tax or I pay the colo tax and either spend time doing netops or pay someone else to do. My hourly rate is much more than I would pay AWS to do the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" (https://joshlowryblog.com/2013/12/12/undifferentiated-heavy-...).

And there is the whole global infrastructure thing for regional redundancy.
Any company CAN sit there and think "should I be evil or not?"

> it is still incredibly dangerous for society that one company
> has so much power over what people can find on the internet

That could easily refer to the RIAA / MPAA with their bogus DMCA takedown notices. Particularly when DMCA is misused to take down sites with no direct copyright infringement. Especially when it is obvious bogus, such as a DMCA takedown of someone's nature audio recordings, while the DMCA filer even doubles-down on the notice claiming it infringes the copyright on their music.

There should be a statutory large fine for filing a bogus DMCA notice just as their is a statutory high cost for copyright infringement.
When I started work engineers has $10k RISC workstations and $50k/year in software licences, we did external training regularly. We were expensive, and mgmt were loathe to waste our time on crud because of that, and because we delivered. Now they talk about cloud synergies and ITIL processes and outsourcing and tech partnerships -- tech costs WAY MORE but devs/engineers aren't seen as delivering value. No one pays anything for the open source that makes it all work. It's enough to make you want to run away and join a startup.
> but I believe Wireguard is held back by its lack of documentation.

Indeed having good documentation is super important. I'm not so arrogant as to proclaim, "I don't have time to write docs! Understand it yourself!", but I am stretched super thin, and I suspect that often times documentation from somebody who _isn't_ the creator winds up being a bit better, because exterior perspectives are useful. So it's my hope that somebody can chip in and help out writing tutorials and docs and walkthroughs and whatnot. We really do need it.

From the sound of your message, though, I wonder if maybe you haven't found the man pages (primary documentation source):

https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/about/src/tools/man/wg.8

https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/about/src/tools/man/wg-quick...
I've got a couple co-workers who feel the same. I've always just used ssh/vim in such cases, but apparently the remote-editing experience on VSCode isn't nearly as good as that of Atom for some reason. Otherwise, I really love VSCode, the only thing it lacks for me now is the ability to separate tabs into different instances/windows but that's more of an electron issue. I've pretty much stopped using jetbrain's products in favor of it.
From the article linked in the article:

https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/education/i-promise-school-a...

>I Promise kids’ school days will start an hour later than their peers. They’ll also receive an additional hour after school every day called the “illumination period,” which will be a time for extra mentoring, studying or club activities.

Not only does the school day start an hour later, the extra time in the day comes from support of extracurricular activities.
This is pretty awesome. Back in the late 90s I ran a 333Mhz Celeron in a little box under the seat of my car, with a parallel port LCD display, as my MP3 player.

I've thought about building something like this, but it just seems like a ton-o-work. This project seems to have maps+camera, no media player yet.

I do run/build a lot of my own stuff (my own web/email server managed via ansible/docker), I run custom Android roms and I do like building things myself, but with the time tradeoff, I just find it easier to get a Pioneer nav/media unit. (Tried the Joyen Android versions for a bit too, but it's difficult to get a good/safe car UI setup in Android).
How can a dev get into clean-tech today? What are the current problems a software engineer could solve? Please, someone with the knowledge give us a path. I wish there was an HN on clean-tech with emphasis on IT
My other reply was only reply to your Ad hominem.

The actual point you make:

> anyone moving to a house in a good school district leaves an empty house in a worse one.

This is correct only if you consider hosing availability. When the housing contains additional value (value of education) the value of housing can increase in absolute. Include the added value from education and you see the point.

Example:

(value of housing) + (value of public education in the district) = combined value of the property

Year 1997:
District A: 100 + 20 = 120
District B: 100 + 20 = 120

Year 2007:
District A: 90 + 20 = 110
District B: 110 + 40 = 150
Maybe Google should use their image recognition tech to detect and punish this.

I‘m only half-joking, browser developers tend to take a very dim view of such misleading techniques.
Based on my view of Woese's work (in which I saw the years of effort leading to better secondary structure alignments), I don't think it was "easy" nor was it a low hanging fruit.

And I think there's still low hanging fruit that people are missing.
Work begins on rocket engines for SLS flights a decade from now
Warren is a lawyer, not an economist.

Her academic career in that field is very impressive, but that has nothing to with an understanding of the science of Economics, which is notoriously full of counterintuitive and misunderstood truths.
I'm looking forward to the Corstorphine Hill bunker in Edinburgh opening to the public:

https://en-gb.facebook.com/BarntonQuarryRestorationProject/

It was the Scottish National HQ though I doubt it was that survivable as its location was fairly well known.
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I'm always impressed on the new ways and places that people get new versions of FORTH installed and rolling. I know that eons ago I did one by coding it into 8051 assembler. It was interesting to browse the Webassembly to see if I could match up with what I remember.

Bonus for writing the core in Webassembly, but then writing some of the more tedious parts in Racket.

I was really impressed with the speed metrics. I would have guessed that it would be much faster than a JS version, but would have never guessed on those low numbers.

Congrats on a very cool project!
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Others fall asleep immediately at school since they live with 5+ siblings and there are literally no available beds at home. I am not trying to blame the parents in all the cases either

At some point, though, personal responsibility has to come into play. Having 5+ children when you have no resources... this is the true elephant in the room. It seems talking about it gets labels thrown around. I guess it's a conversation we can't have right now, though.
I'm an architect in germany, working as project-lead for the initial stages of medium sized buildings till building permit and therefore responsible for the conception and its validation in all terms of structure, fire-protection, installations, etc.

I'd like to make my point that any kind of over-optimization of one or more aspects will put one of the biggest virtues of truly good and functional architecture at risk: being adaptive for a wide variety of future changes (use, program, technology, climate, energy resources, partitioning, shrinking, expanding, etc.).

The actual task of designing a building is to find the right balance in a myriad of parameters, which sometimes create synergies (think sunlight and heating), but often are just one step away from undesirable impacts (think sunlight and overheating). Flexibility in architecture always results out of generous tolerances and robustness - which is always in danger to be eliminated by optimization for limited scenarios.

Also many aspects of the design logically derive from each other: if I plan a school with natural ventilation, it'd be probably a good idea to have windows in two sides of the room, that can exchange the whole air of the room in a 5min break. If I opt for a mechanical ventilation this advantage would be gone and the disadvantages of not having a more compact cubature would override and result in a completely different layout.

While I appreciate all kind of tools that give me an insight into complex interdependencies (how do floorplans with optimized A,B,C look like?) i think that good architectural solutions need humans to make a tailor-made decision based on a bigger picture of our society that has the chance to be valid for some decades(centuries?). Good architects choose to rely on typologies that evolved from history for this difficult task and transform them when needed.

I'd be curious if the approach of OP could be used backwards as a software based analysis what details make successful typologies actually successful.

On a side note: It's pretty interesting that the resulting floorplans of OP are somewhat similar to the traditional arabic city structure (google traditional damascus city center and zoom into the still intact quartiers).
I heard that a guy with funny mustache used this trick successfully a while ago...
Do some cars really play fake engine noises on the speakers?
> I also saw nothing anywhere about how if you modify your config file and down/up with wg-quick it'll delete anything you entered in your config as the 'down' will write back the current state of the interface.

No. Only if you've explicitly chosen to add "SaveConfig = true" to the config file, which by default is not there.
OpenVPN is really not that hard to configure, and I'm pretty darn sure my config isnt broken (it's been audited at least twice.)
… compared to subsequent phylogenetics (we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants, after all). I agree that, at the time, the work must have been (a) mind-numbingly tedious, (b) intellectually challenging.

But comparing past papers (including that one [1]) to current ones does show that the amount of data, computation, and evidence necessary to produce a contemporary research paper is incomparably larger than it used to be. The seminal DNA structure paper was a single A4 page, with an estimate of the double helix height, no calculations or data shown. Good luck getting something like this published today.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC54159/pdf/pnas0...
You seem to have this all figured out then, so let me ask, approximately what point beyond your retirement will all of this happen? And I say "beyond your retirement" because that is the time you will probably give me, a time you won't have to worry about anyone taking you to task on your faulty science.
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Agreed. If we start erasing all the flawed people from history, we won't be left with much. Rather the question should be, what you can learn from his good and his bad qualities?
The public has a lot more influence with policy than they do with internal corporate affairs. I'd much rather fight a bad law than an evil but legally operating company.
There are cows now within an industrialized agricultural context that we know to be a significant contribution to climate change. Would bison in this context produce the same outcome? It’s hard to say, but the two circumstances of their existence on this land is largely incomparable.
Another example is Yitang Zhang and prime gap. He was over 50, so no Fields Medal, but he won many other prizes.
Amnesty International Among Targets of NSO-Powered Campaign
Equally difficult to see how you can have unlimited consequence-free speech and protection from the sort of things people broadly agree protection is good for, so something has to give.

That balance probably means having consequences at the publisher level rather than at the individual one. Meatspace publishers have historically shown willing to shoulder these burdens: journalism organisations have sometimes gone to extreme lengths to protect sources and staff working in oppressive regimes.
Why install an Exchange server when I can use Office 365? Even Microsoft is cannibalizing their server offerings. Everybody is moving that stuff off prem. Windows server licensing doesn't make sense off prem.
Being wary of Google is a luxury. They control much of the technology market, if not the Internet, in both width and depth. Not using Google isn't a practical alternative for most people. Essentially everyone who works at Google can get a different job though.

Here is the thing for me, I don't necessarily mind companies like Google doing business in China. But that isn't because I like the Chinese system, but because I believe there are other ways, like with regulation, you should stand up for your values.

Whenever express those views on Hacker News I get downvoted, or called a shill. I get lectured about how the large tech companies are doing the right thing and how cool open source projects like signal, tor and bitcoin is going to save the world. I have to read through all the rants about how China is just protectionist, authoritarian and stealing intellectual property.

This isn't like Microsoft who built a presence in China over time or Apple who has at least somewhat of a pretense for being in China because of manufacturing. Here is probably the best moment ever given, and there is ever going to be, for those people to show that this wasn't all defensive bullshit. And that when developers, engineers and hackers are actually given a choice where they can quit their job or cancel contracts they will do so for what they believe in.

So I guess let's see what happens.
The Problem with The New York Times's Big Climate Story
Exactly this. WireGuard and wg(8) are meant as building blocks. For example, the wg-quick(8) tool is a simple bash script I built out of wg(8) and ip(8) that mostly works for my use cases and those of some other folks. But if you want something more complicated, then it's supposed to be easy to build that out of the building blocks presented.
In a lot of places blackouts or grid failures tend to coincide with bad weather that doesn't supply much solar charging. The bad weather is quite often windy though so a small wind turbine to diversify the generation sources is helpful.

Living off of solar and batteries means foregoing things like the toaster and the blender.
> can someone explain why everyone loves emoji these days

What do you have against emojis? I'm hoping I can set my hostname to all emoji characters (UTF-8) so that other workstations on the network will show my hostname as those emoji characters.
> It's now a mild OCD condition in me when others don't look after my books

I really like the process as a good book goes from new to well worn. A pristine book is an unread book, which generally means it was naff..
Personal responsibility of the parent sure, but the child can't exactly ask to not be born.
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The point of highlighting Apple's behaviour is not to discount Google's, or to prove an aggregate bias in HN's comments, but to put to light the fact that another corporation much respected for it's stance on privacy as a fundamental right does similar things. It helps in collating the big picture(which does indeed look bleak), which may get lost amidst voices criticising the behaviour of a single corporation.
Firstly extinctions aren't rapidly unfolding events.

The problem with stating and imagining things in terms of binary outcomes is you can't have a reasonable argument about anything.

Most of what is written about Global warming are events that will unfold over long periods of time, but nevertheless should the situation continue, they will eventually come to pass.
The founding fathers have a mythical status in the US. Many observers liken it to religious worship (google "civic religion") with the founders akin to the original disciples of the faith. America's early puritan, Protestant, roots also give importance to books. The act of reading books and then writing about them is almost a form of prayer (see the Latin v. English bibles debate). So a book owned by a founding father is precious. A book modified and written upon by a founding father is a sacred text.

In addition, the american legal tradition gives great importance to the concept of original intent, understanding the mind of a document's author. Important documents such as the US constitution, and therefore many modern day legal debates, are understood through the lens of historical context. Knowing the books read by those who wrote such documents gives one argumentative power in the modern context. So these sacred books are a source of modern day power, adding to their perceived value.

I want to know why he moved the first pages to the middle. Is that some masonic thing?
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> We should spend time building an inclusive, diverse and fair society that reduces the amount of hate speech overall and the net impact of hate speech. Then you don't need to censor anyway.

You could literally apply that kind of arguments to any problem:

- gun violence vs gun control

- war vs peace

- crime vs police

It is too idealistic and ignores the presence of bad actors.
Logitech's Romer-G keyboards are my choice, because they have no sound but they do have the tactile feedback and longevity that I want.

It sounds like you're forced to work with some annoying people, but that doesn't make the market "commodity." That's just objectively wrong. Tell those people to get the quieter keys. Don't let them tell you it isn't possible. It is.
Isn't that true of pretty much any industrial farming even plants?
The Jaguar I-Pace does this [1]. It's the stupidest thing.

[1] https://electrek.co/2018/03/07/jaguar-i-pace-artificial-moto...
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My first chunk of free time goes into making an automated bigotry-watcher for HN.

This is the purest bullshit I have seen in a while. Had I checked HN half an hour late, I would have never caught this.
Looks pretty but I really really really wish developers wouldn't use true colour escape sequences because anyone who uses white shells (or any colour other than black) then cannot use your tool.

https://i.imgur.com/GE0XAfu.png
yeah i downloaded that album last night on the _dweeb_