skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, this is fine, but Google seems to plan to block sites which show malicious ads served by Google's AdSense. That's idiotic.

This is the second case in a month of Google punishing web publishers for using Google products. (The previous case was Google punishing non-https search results, when in fact many of Google's own web publishing tools don't support https.)
Let’s make this a real ‘leap’ year, and go fossil fuel-free
It's a necessary but not sufficient step. They should also block all such ads within AdSense.
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Speaking as a physicist who knows QM, this is almost-correct.

More precisely, the chemical effects of microwave photons are restricted to being the sort of effects that routinely happen within your body all the time due to the thermal jiggle of atoms. Obviously this is not "nothing", because your body does a lot of cool stuff with all of that jiggling.

Obviously, chemical effects can also happen due to accumulated electric potential, as when a metal fork causes sparks in a microwave, but cell phones only have one hundredth or thousandth of that much power going through them at any given time, and the most visible effects of this in the human body seem to be negligible. (These effects do exist -- witness what tasers do to people, or what a 9V battery feels like on the tongue -- but nobody really reports these feelings when holding a transmitting cell phone near their tongue.)

So the possibilities are certainly there but it does seem like if cell phones caused the calamities that are sometimes attributed to them, it would probably change our understanding of one of these two spaces.
Take the NEXT step on the journey to invisible infrastructure at the .NEXT Conf
Because software upgrades more often than not includes a lot of bells and whistles. You can go ahead and try to update a Pentium 3 to Windows 10. Will probably work, but it wasn't intended to.
>may be perceived as insulting to people without certain forms of economic privilege who did, indeed, go out and start companies.

Are you one of these people?

If not, you shouldn't be speaking for them.
Just hang in there. Your mind and gut feeling is trying to tell you where you should be going. Try writing down "where" your mind wanders off and see if you can identify the "why".

Don't worry and there is not a single programmer that cannot "concentrate". You probably got stuck in a job that demotivates you with possibly the wrong people around you.

You can also try and get active with something that has nothing to do with your main work, i.e, a hobby such as photography and see if it helps.
Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant
With Jobs, it wasn't so much what you have right now as it was where he was taking you. To the bright, beautiful future where everything was different and better. One could overlook the imperfections because the vision was so appealing.

Now that he's gone (and without anyone with his charisma to take over), the public is left to contemplate the ignoble reality of the current product sitting in front of them. The sense of wonder and possibility is absent.
Doesn’t hurt to ask - I had an inkling of an idea that involved real estate, so found a real estate person locally and asked them a few questions - learned a few things about how it works I didn’t know and realized it wasn't a priority for what I was doing.

Main thing is you don't have to find some bigwig, start with some informal conversation with a small player to get some perspective first.

Working on something you know is a problem yourself works great. Doesn't hurt to ask people in other fields if your other ideas are valid, and if they are you then have to ask yourself "is it worth your time to get excited bout them?"
The free money was supposed to be used in conjunction with increased government spending on infrastructure projects. Unfortunately the latter half of that ideal fell through and banks ended up taking that free money and utilized it in not so good ways.
I feel like something needs to be done about these sort of ads, I'm happy the Chrome/SafeBrowsing teams are taking these steps. But it's so hypocritical, because most of the times I see these ads, it's from Google's network!

I'm not happy that they punish the publisher/webmaster with no accountability for the advertiser or ad network. I can use Google's AdSense on my website, and unless I continually make an effort to manually review ads, it's very likely it will begin display these sorts of ads. And then because AdSense doesn't care, Chrome will begin flagging my website as malicious to users?!?

I'm surprised they're not doing this as well as making an effort to purge these sorts of ads from AdSense. That way, I could feel comfortable that my users aren't being shown scummy ads, which would be a huge advantage over other ad networks. Now instead, running ads on a website will either become a liability, or an extra added effort to make sure I don't get screwed over by Google.

Also, while a noble goal, there's no details of how they detect and classify these ads. I've had an entire Domain flagged and blocked off by SafeBrowsing because a single page on a subdomain was displaying an ad (via DoubleClick) which linked to malware.
Ubuntu has been doing the same thing as Apple with their new UI, trying to jump in on the tablet bandwagon, with this belief that tablets are the future. This is fairly stupid, considering that Ubuntu's marketshare was pretty much 100% PC, 0% tablets. They gave their main demographic a slap in the face, and they never really did acquire any tablet market. Now, according to DistroWatch, Ubuntu is below Mint and Debian in terms of popularity.

There's something to be said about reinventing the wheel just for the sake of reinventing it, change for the sake of change. Constantly redesigning UIs that were working perfectly well, chasing after fads. In implementing a new UI, Ubuntu acquired a lot of new bugs, broken features and reliability issues. That's normal. Newer code is buggier code. You might think this "old" code is crufty, it might not be designed in the ideal way you like, but by throwing it away, you throw away years of testing and fixes too. That's an argument in favor of incremental evolution and refactorings IMO.

Maybe I'm biased. When I was 16, I used to find colorful desktop backgrounds and fancy UIs cool. Now I'm 30, and I just want the damn thing to f'ing work reliably. I don't need rounded corners, or transparency, or animations or even a desktop background. I'd be OK with a bland UI that looks like Windows 98, so long as the machine can do all I need it to reliably and fast.
It comes from matching iOS releases.

Can't release new iOS features which involve the Mac without a corresponding OSX release.
iLife was very important to Steve, he dedicated a lot of time demoing the apps on stage. He was a huge fan of ripping out all the features of iMovie.

Same with iTunes (which has gotten a ton of criticism over the years), he was the one that kept cramming everything under the sun into it.

I don't know if he was as passionate about X Code, but he sure liked to brag about having the best development environment. Interface Builder in particular seems right out of Steve Jobs' brain (even if it sucks).

Here he is introducing X Code: https://youtu.be/Rh5spZrzu6c?t=59m3s
How is this related to Android?
I'd like to comment to point out that after almost a day, this has hovered between -1 and +2, receiving at least a dozen votes but almost entirely split. It's clear that many people agree and many people disagree with this comment.
> Being English …. Primarily I see housing as a necessity rather than a financial opportunity.

This is the opposite of what most English people seem to value, and vote in policies for. Is there any other country where property is treated so much as an investment?

This[1] system is a good way to have reasonable rent, essentially a housing association. But housing associations in England are only for poor people; not the case in other European countries like Germany and Scandinavia.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032936
You clearly have never read his biography ;)

via an All Things D event:

> What’s more, thanks to the popularity of iTunes on PCs, Apple has become a major Windows software developer. “We’ve got cards and letters from lots of people who say that iTunes is their favorite app on Windows,” noted Jobs. “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in Hell.”

That quip apparently caused Bill Gates to become quite angry:

https://books.google.com/books?id=6e4cDvhrKhgC&lpg=PA463&ots...
The exact same thing is true of Roman Polanski, who long ago would have been free in the US had he not fled his sentence after being convicted. The only reason Polanski still has detention in the US hanging over his head is that he evaded the sentence.
Read here, http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/01/will-chinas-new-supply-side-...

tl;dr is China will need to eventually give in and do debt forgiveness. there's strong historical precedent for it.
Car fumes are killing us. So why isn’t anyone telling us not to drive?
If every DC Starbucks is serving WiFi via a single network vendor like AT&T etc. then the surveillance is already in place. Particularly, if only metadata is being collected.

A specialized device is not really needed. Just a Mitm position between the stores and the Internet.
Sure, but I would be extremely careful doing it as it is easy to spoof a number and could possibly open some other issues.

You would also need to have the user create their account and enter payment info via a website first. After that though, you just create a webhook through a service like Twilio to respond to a set of texts and when the Make Payment text is received it processes the charge. You could require a pin or something form of verification to help ensure it is the actual user and not their kid accidentally playing on the phone.

You wouldn't be directly associating the credit card to the phone number though. You would simply be associating the phone number to a user in your system, and then the user would have a payment method associated with them through your processor (i.e. Stripe) in the form of a token.

And just to be clear I would never use this to require the user to text a credit card number to your company.
Great reminder to cull the backlog of my personal todo list!
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Imagine you're a bank calculating the interest rate to
offer on a loan. Do you think that rate will be lower or
higher if you believe there are circumstances wherein the
government would unilaterally allow your borrower to cease
payment?

It is unquestionably true that a debt jubilee would result in higher interest rates. It is somewhat disingenuous to spin this as a negative for people with marginal credit: you only have bad credit if you are very young, or have outstanding debt-- annulling a thousand bucks of debt has dramatically greater marginal utility than the ability to get a loan of a thousand dollars at 15% APR instead of 25% APR.

I also question how long the effect of a jubilee-premium would last. Five years? Ten? Brazil, Argentina and Mexico all defaulted on their sovereign debt in the 80s-- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_debt_crisis ) and they certainly weren't locked out of the bond market forever-- Mexico's 30 year bonds are standing at about 6.8% right now. Gold was illegal to own in the United States from 1933 to 1975, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act ) yet investors aren't acting like they're afraid of the government taking their gold again-- it's at $1,155 a troy ounce right now.
Are you referring to the halligan bar? I'd be very surprised to see a fire department that didn't carry them. The "set of irons" (the halligan plus a flat head axe) is about as standard a set of tools as you can get in the fire service.

While there is some variation (I like to carry a Denver Tool[1] instead of the axe, as it's a slightly more effective striking tool), pretty much everyone carries the halligan. There really isn't a more versatile tool.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_tool
Just reading that headline makes me think to myself. Why ask Goldman Sachs? They are clearly ahead of the capitalism game so of course they are gonna say it works well!?!?

Asking the richest capitalists in the world if capitalism works is a silly question if you ask me...
> If all your options are terrible, you might as well use the terrible option with the largest ROI, right?

One of the options is "stop running ads". Why is a "site for public safety communications" running ads at all?

Public safety announcement: block all ads to make your browsing much safer. Use Adblock Plus (with so-called "acceptable ads" turned off) or uBlock Origin.
Ask HN: Have you developed with Squarespace?
I don't mean just choosing one of their templates and editing the content, but actually using their developer tools to create your own template/site from scratch.

Documentation: http://developers.squarespace.com/initial-setup

From what I can see it looks pretty solid and a much smaller learning curve than something like WordPress.

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience using Squarespace's developer tools to build your own site, or a client's site from scratch. If so, would you use it again? Would you recommend it to another developer?
Everyone is reacting to the leaked prediction of the panel's decision; what makes you think Assange's statement isn't also a reaction to that? If he knows how the panel is going to decide, it's not particularly courageous of him to suggest he'd turn himself over if they voted against him.
I don't think I'd be comfortable doing that.
Agree on all the items.

Not just Apple, I see similar issues with Google.

Google's Youtube IOS app has issue playing video correctly. It can't even buffer the segments correctly.

Google latest Android Map crashes all the times 1-2 minutes into the navigation, extremely dangerous when I have to restart the navigate while driving. I can't depend on it at all.

I have to roll back to the default factory install older version google map to make it work. Lately I see the older stable version start crash more often, probabaly cause by the "update" on the server API side.

It will be a very scary world if this type of SW development processes are applied to tomorrow's "self driving car".
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Outside temperature is less important than you might assume we can lower or pull back our boys to regulate temperature. Airflow and being physically pushed back into the body is a major factor so your boys can overheat when it's 55 or be fine when it's 95.
The $20k is an aspiration (read, total bs atm), the pictures you're seeing are for a house that cost $135k.

http://www.artsatl.com/2016/01/serenbe-rural-studio-artist-r...

It must be mentioned that houses carry a huge location premium, everyone knows this. You can buy a big beautiful home in the middle of nowhere for the cost of a studio in the middle of NY or SF.

Living isn't all that expensive, living close to where jobs are, or close to the 'heart' of a vibrant local culture, that's expensive, and it looks like the actual cost of building isn't the most significant part of that equation. Land is expensive, so you need to go up, and building up and space-efficiently (i.e. reasonably tall buildings with smart, space efficient units) is where a lot of these 'open-source plans for cheap rural houses with materials from Home Depot' completely do not apply.

It's a bit like building your own PC. Yeah you can build a much more powerful machine at a cheaper rate than a Macbook... but you're forgoing all kinds of factors like mobility which are extremely essential to many of today's consumers. Similarly, you can build a cheap rural home and completely forgo on extremely essential factors like proximity to jobs, culture and infrastructure.

It's great for some people, but not for most.
I think the decline is overstated. Couple related points-

- They at least offer updates, many other vendors offer few to none. Is that how you achieve quality? My wife's iPhone4S is still receiving updates and she's been happy with the device since 2011 to today. I've always used competitor's products and never achieved this. As a result, we will continue and increase our scope of purchases from Apple.

- Software is hard, many pieces of software that I've dug into I'm left amazed it even works.

I'm not outright dismissing this blog, but I wish it included who is the leader of software quality- since the statement is that it's not Apple.

My experience leads me to think that if they're an example of failing software, wow... what about the rest?
Here's what looks like more info from the designers.

It's a really cool program. Each year they come up with a house design and BUILD it for <$20K.

http://www.ruralstudio.org/projects/20k-v8-daves-house

search the projects tab to see all of them back to 2005
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This is, again, straightforward microeconomics. The reason none of the farm owners is able to afford higher wages is because the price they can sell their crops at is set by competition with other farms, whose prices reflect the fact that they are not themselves paying higher wages. If cheap labor were unavailable, wages and prices would both rise and the business owners would end up about the same.

The situation is somewhat complicated by the seasonal nature of the work, which means yearly cycles of hiring and firing. We normally associate periods of intense hiring with a shortage (ie, a recent shift in the economy means much more demand for some category of worker and not enough people have been trained yet to fill the demand), but in the case of agricultural work, that's part of the economy in steady-state.
The reverse is also true - once you decide to leave Apple, the lock-in becomes something you don't go back to. I used to be entirely Apple devices, MacBooks & iPods & iPhones & AirPlay everywhere. But I was fed up enough with my iPhone 4 that I got a Nexus 5 instead - which led me to a Chromecast, a Galaxy Tab A with S-Pen, which led me to a Samsung TV. The grass has definitely been greener for me. I still have my new MacBook Pro, but I don't "love" it like I used to love Apple products.
I stopped keeping up to date with the latest "trendy" JavaScript frameworks when I realized it was tanking my productivity.

New JS libraries are coming out several times per year, and employers and engineers expect you to be familiar with them in order to get hired (e.x., we need React, Angular, Ember, Node and Meteor skills).

But what really happens, is when you have 12 months of time, and you need to know a new library / framework every three months you are burning something like four months of time per year just getting used to the new tech.

With RoR & AngularJS 1.5 I get a full-stack web application loaded with best practices that I can keep chugging away at building without ever worrying about what I need to hop onto next month.
From what I read on https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/QuickT... it seems it's possible to explicitly represent the delay.
> This is perfect though! In two weeks, you discovered the wrong thing.

Maybe I didn't describe it very well. 12 days was perhaps a poor choice because it is convenient to a sprint cycle, but in my comment it was meant to function as a random placeholder.

This type of work happens like Poisson shocks, or like lightning strikes. You work and work and it seems like you don't get a single thing done, zero story points completed, etc., and then boom, in one fell swoop you figure out a huge advancement in the problem. That's the defining aspect of the work I am talking about. The burndown graphs will look like (and should look like) a flat line that suddenly drops to zero near the end.

It has nothing to do with "failing fast" because it's not "failing." It is the process of discovering what the actual problem is. This is very different than a situation where you, say, try out a MVC architecture but later realize it's not optimal for a business use case and need to change it to MVVM or something. You can always make measured progress on the first attempt, and if it doesn't work, that would constitute valuable failure-case knowledge.

But with more abstract questions it's more like you are saying this: we tried to solve it, and we are not even sure whether or not we've made any progress yet, and we won't be sure until right at the moment we've either solved the problem completely or demonstrated why our whole approach cannot be used to solve it.

That's perhaps a very idealized version; most problems don't fall that far on the research spectrum. But the point is that many problems still do fall pretty far on that spectrum, and if you set up your approach to them based on doing Step A then doing Step B then reporting about metric C, etc., it actually hinders your ability to solve it, since the very nature of the problem is not amenable to that sort of thing.
I'm not sure how to unpack this. If there isn't energy scarcity, why does petroleum cost money? Scarcity isn't just a question of production, but also one of consumption. With some goods (e.g. food), we could reach a point where the entire population of the world cannot consume more. With others (energy is a salient example), there seems to be no upper limit on consumption. There will always be a finite amount, and people want to use it differently. This is exactly the problem markets are purported to solve.
Is there a mirror? My corporate firewall is blocking your link.
"I'll tell you now, kid, it was all so much better when I was your age!"

There, I've saved you from reading the article.
That place where ONE worker died? of heart attack?