skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landlords already have an incentive to make their units more energy efficient--they can capture the revenue stream that currently goes to the gas, electric, and oil companies. I'm not sure why more landlords don't do this though. Probably because methods that don't disturb tenants (e.g. exterior rock wool or foam insulation) run afoul of zoning/setback/property tax assessment rules, and those that do comply (e.g double stud wall retrofits) disturb the tenants and/or reduce marketable space.
Because ocean acidification is caused by atmospheric CO2? Pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and you'll reduce the amount of CO2 dissolved in the ocean.
Why the elevator could be the next great disruptive technology
FBI's facial recognition system can access 411M photos
Looks like the owl took the giraffe prisoner to conduct unethical experiments like cloning.
Not to mention: you can use the mere claim of yourself knowing a bug in a smart contract to force the other side to do as you say. If it's sufficiently hard to check for bugs, the other party might accept the cost of doing as you say as cheaper than the cost of checking for bugs again.

This was a plot mechanism in some SciFi story I read a few years back.
Edit: one of the in-universe early Revelation Space books.
The telegram desktop app works really well
Anyone remember that Show HN which let you create diagrams from simple text like this:

A <----- B -----\
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V
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Then there was a link in the discussion to a similar tool.
"Now whilst its true the sun is heating up before it goes super nova millions of years in the future, which is what alot of the global warming fear is based on...."

This is absolute nonsense and I sincerely hope you're trolling and don't actually believe this. The Sun is too small to go supernova, and the gradual heating it experiences happens on timescales far too long for most people to care about. The Sun's evolution will eventually render Earth uninhabitable unless something is done, but that's in something like half a billion years. The consequences of global warming due to increased greenhouse gas emissions are being felt now, and will become acute within decades or centuries.
In general, the issue I see is using a hammer to prevent people from surviving in a complex environment, vs using innovation to promote a more sustainable way to make a living. People aren't usually polluting because they love dirty air, water, hate polar bears, or even because they think it's a good thing to do. People drive cars for hours each day because there isn't a viable (cost-effective) alternative.

> banning fossil fuels entirely

No fossil fuels means the global delivery of goods and services comes to an immediate halt. Medicine, food, clothing, power - everything stops. We are absolutely too reliant on fossil fuels, and we have to change that. But you may be forgetting how long it took to get us hooked on one of the easiest-to-consume energy resources on the planet. Moving to a resource which takes more work to get energy from is not going to happen overnight. And if we did come up with something overnight, it's probably not thought-through enough to be a real solution.

> banning deforestation

This issue is much more complicated than it seems. Let's take the Amazon rainforest as an example. A large portion of the deforestation is occurring because single-family farms are clearing forest to make a farm, so they can grow crops. How do we handle situations like that without materially affecting the ability of people to support themselves?
Skype is pretty terrible software both in term of UX, resource usage and the political implications we all know about
No, I mean if you want a new bank account, for example because you started a new business, you need to put on pants go to a bank office and fulfill whatever the bank demands.

The banking world is extremely interested in blockchain technology and smart contracts. Browse through financial news and you'll see the extent of it—it's huge.

Your conviction that blockchains are stupid insanity seems to me like it will be proven very wrong in the next five years.
And perhaps, just one more standard to unify all of them!
http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless/sps.svg

Is there something wrong that the client browser is connecting directly to the database, so JS -> MySQL direct connection won't expose credentials ?
Some would say those should be their own types, even if simply aliases to built-in ones.
I think the goal is to replace one boss (whether it is VCs, a customer, an employer, etc.) with one hundred bosses (ie. tons of customers, powerless investors, several different freelance employers) so you can tell whatever one is causing you significant stress to FO. Redundancy and autonomy is, or should be, the goal, as opposed to business size or power.
I'd much rather see this than waiting on someone type out long statements and enduring the unnecessary pauses typing creates.
Hacker News has remained a relatively civil place for far longer than most online forums largely because of the policies pg and other admins have put in place.
I often forget the difference between deforestation and desertification. For the later, which is an even worse problem you might want to watch this TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...

As for some of your other suggestions "global carbon pricing system" reminds me of cap-and-trade which is a very political process if implemented. A simpler and fairer way to do that is to simply tax hydrocarbons and coal coming out of the ground. Then the price will be passed on to whomever uses it - tax the source rather than the use, it's much simpler and less subject to political manipulation and agendas. As for changing peoples diets, why not change their reproductive habits? All of these problems stem from having too many people. You can cut down a few forests, you can pump a few oil wells, you can raise cattle, the problem is having too much of that stuff to support an untenable number of people. We don't even have jobs for all of them. IMHO every country should have a means to provide birth control to anyone who wants it. A simple and effective long term attack on all of these problem, but no, it may not be enough by itself.
There is also a Chrome extension for hangouts, and it can even run when Chrome isn't visible (authored by Google). Perhaps most useful is the "transparent ui" mode, where you have floating heads - see the second screenshot at http://www.omgchrome.com/google-hangouts-chrome-app-update/ - although for a change that is available on Windows and Linux, but not Mac! (The page also has a link to the Chrome extension.)
You can now browse Reddit from your Apple TV
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Great Documentation
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Local Development Tools/Box
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https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/homestead

Easy to Spin Up servers and deploy
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Zero downtime deployment
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Micro/Slim version
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SaaS in a box
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Great Learning Videos and Community
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de jure != de facto

In practice it was used far more for type.
Serverless is just a buzzword similar to NoSQL to gain traction, nothing new!
> a self-distributing bug bounty piñata

I think this is great actually. Maybe not for the people involved right now but there will be a very strong Natural Selection pressure on contracts.

It will be interesting what type of contract emerge and survive over time, the type of languages used to improve or proof robustness, etc.
Art of War is only useful in a short list of highly competitive scenarios. Most business is surprisingly not that zero-sum. And The Price is mostly useful dealing with the father/son business dynamic. Not that relevant otherwise.
> Are you happy? Well, maybe you can handle it because you're rich.

I'm happy, because for me housing is consumption, not an investment.
sounds stupid. I wouldnt do that. I dont link the logo back to marketing for logged in users but its always there.
oh these poor, poor chinese knock-offs that get harrassed, harrassed! by apple lawyers.

now where is the iphone produced again? it's a chinese phone sans the IP (designed by apple in cali).
Just so we're clear: you're saying JavaScript isn't a useful language? Ooookay then.
The blog post briefly touches on this, but it's been fixed for more than a year, its just that some linux distros are very slow to get updates (read debian-stable).
Initially I thought this was a new vulnerability.
It's good to be reminded of this process though. I tend to try to take on an epic project that I think is a good idea and then am crushed when it turns out it doesn't work.
Works for me! Some of the non-affiliated tooling (e.g. the Sublime Linter plugin) can be a little difficult to use, but the command-line tool is pretty clear.

Refining the .flowconfig so it worked universally also took a bit of time, but that's more due to our very large codebase than flow.
It doesn't say "MySQL database".

The client could conceivably connect to something like an ElasticSearch database (JSON API), setup with no auth/read-only permissions and appropriate rate-limiting.
This is what it looks like when fire burns inside a spacecraft
Seems the plot of Ex_Machina movie.
This paper skirts the border around outright misinformation. It's a collection of stories attempting to weave a coherent narrative. The use of the word "toxin" is especially a scare tactic when people want to impute something, when there's isn't enough evidence to outright prove something is harmful.

Note: I'm not saying the specific chemicals in the article are not toxins. What I'm saying is that there is only weak evidence showing they are dangerous enough to take action in most cases. And I'm saying the article's author carefully combined data and anecdote selectively to create fear in the reader. And that is disingenous.
> This is FUD, broadly speaking. The devs have put out a patch for miners which allows them to decide whether or not they wish to fork over these transactions. Centralization is not required for this decision, instead, distributed consensus.

With all respect Peter, this is not FUD and OP is raising a valid concern. Yes, the miners vote on the patch - but given the infant state of the ecosystem and the large loss incurred, even further controversy or delay in finding a resolution may cause them permanent economic harm; so it would appear that there is little leeway in the choice involved.

> The counterpoint to your statements is simply that consumers need safety with their money. It is no badge of honor to let unsophisticated technical people lose money for some extreme libertarian ideals.

Yes, that's certainly the argument, particularly that if there is majority agreement than the protocol change is justified. But this doesn't at all invalidate OP's concern that fundamentally algorithmic contract's aren't binding if such an alteration can be adopted. The case could be made that in a more mature ecosystem such case specific alterations are more potentially damaging than useful and that this is a transitional phase, yet I think the burden of proof is on the one responding.
The entire finance industry does a fancy form of betting. Risk and reward are packaged up and bought and sold by people according to their preferred allotment, and once the outcome is known the spoils (or losses) are correspondingly shared.

Prediction markets can also be called "information markets" because they expand the class of things we can understand the risk characteristics of beyond the traditional instruments.

Lloyds of London began by issuing insurance on shipping vessels so that ship owners shared the risk of a wreck across all their fleets, reducing the devastation of losing a ship for each individual owner. Prediction markets let us do this for a host of other outcomes.

A prediction market is nothing more than a betting market, the innovation (attributable to Robin Hanson, I believe) is the idea of the binary future, which makes the probabilistic outcome work nicely with a traditional futures contract structure, and allows for a lot of nice intuitions based on price movement.
Just an idea - why not contact the attacker (via a public message), and offer him or her a deal - they get to keep say 1% of the stolen amount, given that they upload a smart contract that guarantees the money is sent from the stolen account to a "trusted" address (from where it will go to DAO 2.0). That way everyone wins, hacker gets paid a fair amount for finding the security hole, no messy forks.
TypeScript recently added an allowJS mode which makes it much easier to convert JS to TS a file at a time and Typescript will infer what it can from the unannotated JS files. From what I hear it's not quite as much as Flow picks up, but it is getting better, especially because it's also doing double duty as the new JS IntelliSense language service (codename "Salsa") for VS Code and intended to eventually replace Visual Studio's IntelliSense language service for JS as well.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

If you have a sufficiently long view, nothing matters. The universe will experience heat death in a mere 10^1000 years, a blip on the total timeline.

I happen to care about humans, though. Most humans do.
That wouldn't be a problem if one of those developments is a 20-story parking garage.
We should stop subsidies for all fossil fuels, and begin phasing in taxation of fossil fuels to account for their cost. But the cost I'm talking about it not just about money. There isn't a viable alternative to a whole host of products that we use. Off the top of my head I can think of plastics (huge) and large equipment. Even using energy-reclamation for garbage trucks is an "innovation" for us. We simply couldn't do it with the current paradigm.
You also have to consider that the majority of humanity is evolutionarily wired to be change-averse. Overturning our current infrastructure is not easy, and will require trillions of dollars of investment, for essentially the same level of service that we have today. That's hard to convince people to do. And even the best idea is worth nothing if people won't adopt it.
Articles like this one, and the recent project on libraries like Helix http://blog.skylight.io/introducing-helix/ make me awfully tempted to rewrite inner loops in certain production Ruby projects in Rust.
It's cute but does anyone else feel this helps perpetuate the man child stigma of our industry?
8 Internet of Things ideas that will change your life in the near future
Would you object if I filled your house with pure oxygen, or would you just allow it to happen?
You have a surprising inability to understand things from other people's viewpoints. In other words, you lack empathy.
I think you are better off with chickens even if you don't live in extreme poverty...

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-551038633-gallinas-p...
The consensus algorithm is actually not that important for understanding day to day stuff. Some "private blockchains" actually just use round-robin.
I wrote my dissertation in markdown because LaTeX added so much noise to the text. In the end I had to go back and manually reformat chunks of it in LaTeX (especially the floats), but it was still worth it for all the bits I never had to write LaTeX for. In the end, it's not either-or, it's Markdown plus conversion to something with more knobs to turn. (All thanks to Pandoc!)
I would pay good money to have complex topics like this presented in the illustrated child fable format. I can imagine learning a university level course on security/network/OSI model protocols (boring as F*) but presented in a human readable narrative with characters and story arcs. My brain would remember it so god damn well.
I read it as, the Chinese companies (or their US subsidiary) get sued in US courts for US patents. With that reading, I'm not sure your request makes sense.
OrgMode Tutorial: Organize Your Life and Work
PHP absolutely has right ways to do parameterized queries.

Take a glance at http://www.phptherightway.com/ to get started
WWDC 2016 Platforms State of the Union: Key Takeaways for iOS Devs
The road to success is paved with failures!
The solution to that problem is to vote out said politicians, not impose a property tax cap.
AMA with Peldi (Balsamiq) and DHH (Basecamp)
> That said, there just aren't enough people looking at these contracts right now

I hope this doesn't kill the project. Having programs that give you money when you find bugs in them could be a very powerful incentive to develop new tools to write correct code.
Russia’s Track and Field Team Barred from Rio Olympics
nothing in the OP about this robot having been struck by lightning though.
> the brain isn't predicting the path of the ball, only what should be done in any given instant.

"what should be done in any given instant" is a fantasy. Brain processing takes time, nerve signals take time to travel, muscles take time to contract.

Nothing is instantaneous. It all takes time.

It's actually "what should be done a number of moments in the future". And that is a kind of prediction.

I must admit I'm finding all this discussion pretty frustrating - this is really elementary stuff!
Knowledge is not the problem. In fact, knowledge is a trivial problem because with electronic ballots, you only need a single guy with the right knowledge and he can compromise the entire election.

The old way, you need an entire army of idiots.
There's already a shift to robotics in chinese manufacturing, you can put those robots in another country:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
Re: 30 flavors of Markdown: did you guys know that Atlassian uses two different flavors of MD for jira and bitbucket?
Sounds like it. I remember reading at some point that tempos changed significantly at one point, so that many of what we consider slow boring classics were originally meant to be as lively as this rendition.
If the DAO is "too big to fail", are Vitalik and the core dev team the equivalent of a "lender of last resort"[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_last_resort
Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact Takes Questions on SaaS
There was a ton of FUD around PGP and encryption export legalities and commercial use.

There was a window to make this stuff standard 20 years ago and we, as technologists, totally whiffed on it.

The "these are not web technologies" quip at StackExchange made me cringe for some reason. As if this has anything to do with web protocols.

For the sordid history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

For yet another sadly ignored, co-opted, would-be-standard:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880
> the idea was that smart contracts were going to eliminate the need for enforcement or dispute resolution

Well that's the fantasy of the century. Has no one learned this lesson with Bitcoin? An electronic currency doesn't magically wave away the fact it's being built and used by humans.
Python 3.5.0+, 3.4.4+ and 2.7.9+ are not vulnerable.
edit: typos
Show HN: Cvui – simple UI lib built on top of OpenCV drawing primitives
Apple iPhone Components from India, Production Slated 16th July – Apple Toolbox
for obvious fixes, that’s not actual power: They could not do that if the correct answer weren’t obvious.

If I offered a new car for 10€ — obviously it should have been 10k€, so others cannot expect me to fulfil that (ask your local police).

If I had offered it for 8.5k€ and suddenly claim it should have been 10k€, it’s far from obvious that this was a mere error, so I’d likely have to stand for it.

If I offered a used car for 10€, the case becomes murky.
Making Software with Casual Intelligence – why is software still so dumb?
No, and sadly the decorator proposal doesn't even include support for decorators on functions (only classes and methods). This is due to conflicting opinions on how to handle the interaction with function hoisting.
Kudos to the author for making the images 3840x2560. Not only are they fantastic illustrations, they are somewhat future proof, as they will scale nicely on 4K+ resolution displays.
Yes, but when it says "Projects contributed to" as a different section from "Popular repositories" it looks like the contributed ones are NOT your own.

When it says "Pinned projects" it doesn't mean "My Repositories" nor "Contributed to", it just means I chose to show them. If I choose to show them it means that:

1. I contributed a lot to it so I want to show it.
2. I want show a project as mine when I just did a small contribution. This is easy to caught.

So you have a choice of showing your work vs trying to cheat, while in the old one it was just everything mixed. I for one welcome to be able to choose and think in total is a positive change, but I understand some people worry that other people "cheat".
The whole field is so ripe for disruption yer nothing ever materialises....
Amazon is just beginning to use robots and they’re making a huge difference
Thoughts on the DAO Hack
If GAE has had "serverless" for most of a decade, then why did Google decide to create Google Cloud Functions?
https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/
Sounds like a two-tier property tax with a higher tier for unoccupied housing would be a solution.
Past disucssion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10988746
You'd like "The Manga Guide to Databases" :)

Read the reviews here https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Databases-Mana-Takahashi/...

Then buy it direct here https://www.nostarch.com/mg_databases.htm
Mr PGBovine, I liked your cpython video series
What you're trying to solve is something very similar to the recursive self improvement problem that MIRI[1] and friends are trying to solve in the sphere of "friendly" artificial intelligence. If something rewrites its own source code, how can you assert invariants that can be relied upon? So going and looking over there at what they've come up with may be fruitful.

[1] https://intelligence.org/
The new engine ("Salsa") is actually powered by Typescript, which is neat.
I won't say it's the worse thing, it did bring some good and really help drive plenty of new projects towards being OOP. I'm no fan of it either! My point is that the code is structured! Now is the framework architecture good? Whoops, that's another discussion, and I can't likewise stand the layering upon layering of components and configuration nightmare.
That was pre youtube- it was on Newgrounds originally.
Not swiped cards. Chip and signature isn't as secure a chip and PIN.
Official Adobe Flash uninstallers were a security hazard
Also, real Daleks don't try to climb the stairs, they just level the building.
After Home Depot showed it didn't understand security and my credit card was spoofed I've tried to stop shopping there. It's difficult sometimes.
Public blockchains have been around since 2008 (Bitcoin). If you don't like it, I'm not going to try to change your mind. But this kind of shocked response from people who have seemingly been living under a rock is really almost a kind of spam in these threads.
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if they had a trust, credit card processing fees would be 7%, not 3%. they obviously don't.

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correction: "If you're looking for quick numbers, here you go: the average credit card processing cost for a retail business where cards are swiped is roughly 1.95% - 2%" source: https://www.cardfellow.com/average-fees-for-credit-card-proc...

why would a trust have rates that low? It seems competitive to me...
That's a rather imbalanced perspective. China has grown not through organic development and innovation, but through global, state sponsored, commercial espionage; and in a country where the state is inextricably linked to even the "private" corporations.

I'm no fan of Apple's ways sometimes, but it's like comparing a borderline unscrupulous business to an organized crime outfit.

It would not surprise me one bit if this whole "patent violation" is nothing but a sham to fool people like you into believing there's some legitimacy behind efforts to sabotage Apple taking over the market from Chinese firms / state control.
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