skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making the tax agency also the debt collector for this type of loan is quite ingenious, but also evil

Also, because "PACE financing is structured as a tax assessment instead of a loan, the PACE programs do not have to provide to homeowners the same disclosures about the financing costs that traditional lenders must provide" [1].

> defaulting is basically equivalent to being behind on your taxes

Beyond being collectable as a tax lien, such a default would complicate the property's underlying mortgage. This is because "the tax liens for PACE financing take priority over other lien-holders, and those lien-holders are not notified or given an opportunity to object."

Furthermore, based on the article, it is unclear if some municipal or state governments are partially or fully guaranteeing their PACE liabilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACE_financing
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I have had the same issue. Buttons seem to just disappear on the touch bar randomly. If you press on them, they reappear again. Definitely some bugs with it.
Ask HN: What happens if Google's Public DNS fails? 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
I know that Google has probably the best servers in the world. But seeing how many people and companies (even seen it on telecommunication companies) rely on it is frightening.
You don't need such density to have walkability to shops and cafés. Any 2-3 story small town from 2000-4000 to 30000-40000 inhabitants can provide it.

That's not at all in the league of the 1-3 millions inhabitants cities you quoted. Paris is a nightmare to live in and people want to flea from it. There used to be close to 3 millions inhabitants and it is now down to slightly over 2 millions.
We basically started caring about what people think and how we affect their lives. Those previous projects were done at the expense of those it affected negatively. Maybe they were willing to accept that because they believed life would be better for everyone as a result.
could you expand more on the health aspect of beans over ramen? I am interested to know the details.
Agreed. Also, some economists/researchers are claiming that subprime lending wasn't alone in triggering the crisis, but that it was also a prime crisis as well; that debt levels were already unsustainable, more generally. Not to say that subprime wasn't a big component, but that there may be macro patterns still emerging that's difficult to see/process.

I think this article from M.I.T. Sloan was posted here a while back: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/rethinking-how-the...
I agree. I used to design voice and data networks for call centers and I would always be part of the planning phase. A lot of times I would have to go with call center owners when they would go inspect cubicles they found and potentially wanted to buy, so as to answer any questions about how they will be connected to power, network, etc.. I was always amazed at just how expensive cubicles were. I mean, for what they are. One of the call centers was owned by a construction company. They originally went with cubes but in their next call center they built cubes out of drywall, not quite offices obviously - but looked really good, at mere fraction of the cost.

As a person that has worked in both open and closed floor plans, ill just say this, I miss working from home and cant wait to go back.
> It was exactly as you described your office. It was not even three in the afternoon, and they had some loud European techno playing.

...but that's... not how I described the office in question.
The most horrifying part is that they probably do this every time they want to visit that domain, and don't even know what a bookmark is.

Never mind about writing <html><head></head><body><ul><li><a>link1</a></li><li><a>link2</a></li>...</ul></body></html> and using a simple list of their favorite links as their home page.

My only consolation is that when these people grow up and have some money to spend, the HN crowd will all look like Odin, with all the magic we can work using our mastery of the runes. I bet I sacrificed some of my eyesight by sitting too closely to old, low-res CRT monitors, too.
> I prefer sharing an office with 1-3 others. You still get the social interaction, but without too much distraction. It's a pretty good compromise.

In the past, I've shared an office with one other, and I've shared an office with three others.

Sharing an office with one other person was great, especially when the desks were arranged so we both had our backs to the wall. I'd gladly do it again.

Sharing an office with three others was a nightmare. It could have been worse: at least I got along with my officemates, but the lack of privacy got to me badly, especially given that the desks were arranged so none of our backs were to a wall (I even faced the window... beautiful view, but the glare got to me).
Your PowerPoint is a zip file in disguise
the title threw me off. I thought it was going to be about someone saying they would not change their a/s/l on chat.
Types of Engineers
It's not that it's a big secret
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secreta...
"...The agent said Schwab had cut her off... The charge of driving under the influence is not based upon the presence of caffeine in his system," she added."

You sure as hell got that right...
Flashy con-men have their uses.
Perhaps I'm a "bad web citizen" for not wanting to go mobile first with responsive design, but most of the work I've done over the past 5 years for clients has been "desktop first", fixed-width web applications (with native mobile apps or separated mobile views if applicable). It's hard to do responsive right and it costs real time and money for what is, sometimes, only a theoretical use-case.

And for that, the Bootstrap grid has become slightly worse ever since v2 as the media-query stuff gets more and more exposed on the public API.
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Or some clearly visible icon at the end of the URL bar saying "2832 more characters ->".
Question: Why is this flagged?
Can you provide an estimate of total build cost / employee?

It's a nice looking space, but likely only attainable for high margin industries like software engineering.
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Inspections Cause Price Drop and FUD
One recommendation for everyone who suffers in an open office: BrainFM.

Not affiliated with it, but saw it here on HN on a thread about music, tried it out and I love it. I listen to it daily, have probably heard each track at least a hundred times, but it still helps me to focus. With the right headphones (isolating so that volume can be low), I can zoom out and ignore everything around me. Haven't found any other music that can do that, especially when I really have to focus (e.g. reading complicated texts).

Don't know if it really works or if it's just psychological, but I don't care as long as it helps me. Made my life in the office much easier.
"No, we are a tech company, not a media company[0]"

[0] - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-zuckerberg-idUSKC...
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I'm not sure why my original response, "Curing cancer with AIDS? No thanks" was flagged. HOAs are awful and mandating them is despicable. Curing one problem with another is not a solution.
https://www.statista.com has a cool newsletter that you can subscribe to for some pretty interesting statistics.
I think the original idea of dart was to replace JavaScript, back when the language looked stale and had no future.
Now that the JS community/committee have sorted themselves out and we have ES6 etc, there's not much need for dart now.
Researcher Theo Compernolle wrote about the open office in his book Brainchains. To help anyone convince management and colleagues that the open plan office creates an environment detrimental to our well-being, he has published a free excerpt of his work:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByN-2IZSJqvxY0pyRnZhV0c0Qm8...

Useful if you are fighting for change in your work environment.
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grabs the mouse: hello computer.
When the company I used to work with switched to an open Office layout it didn't look like a big problem at that time, but after a year I became more irritated and less happy, If I was at a very critical call with a customer the phone rings, laughts and chats diverged my attention, with the time I quit for other reasons, but open office have some influence in that desition.
Or even `onion:http//some.hostname` -- would that be allowed by generic URI spec? Not sure, I think so?
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Ok that's valid. Other than blocking bit.ly and other commercial link sharing services this seems to be a human hacking problem. It's hard to get people to be careful about checking the URL on a login page.
It's just one of the (many) available options. E.g. there's OpenDNS with 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 - and most importantly, there's the local DNS provided by ISP. That one is supposed to be the primary one, with Google's and OpenDNS's servers being a fallback or an alternative.

I use both G and ODNS - when the local defaults aren't working. I definitely would not recommend these as your primary servers, precisely because they're provided merely as a courtesy to you, without any guarantees whatsoever.
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Sorry, while writing, I mistakenly thought the app is meant for the touchbar.
6 Startups and Popular Websites You Didn't Know Started as Side Projects
Oops, my bad. That makes the distinction even more baffling to me.
Interested as well. Where did you buy it?
If we could all raise our standards on workplace manners open offices are good for us.

PSA of the day: Please train yourself to fully exhale right before sneezing.
Thank you, I stand corrected.
Don't use Dart for web applications. It is horrible. Hard to integrate with js libraries, lacking features from js, big fat runtime and buggy. It may be good language as replacement for server side javascript, but definitely not for web apps using dart2js.
Thanks... but is that the extent of it?

I'm familiar with this syntax but thought that Google's punishments take the form more of a sliding scale (which diminishes general authority or prevalence for certain searches) than a binary system (good/show, bad/hide). And that simply checking the index as above wouldn't reveal too much actionable info. Eg. if a domain is categorized as having adult content.
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The decision maker always spins open office as some kind of collaborative, productivity enhancer. But we all know the real reason is cost.
But that's google, I can tell you practically speaking many ISPs don't do this.

Client subnet extension would be very nice.
Silicon Valley startups see less cash in 2016
Okay, to someone just looking to get started in deep learning / ML, This post reads like hieroglyphics. Can you suggest resources I can read to better understand it?
flagged? It transcends me why this post might be flagged. And it will be a marker of very bad undemocratic qualities of this forum if it stays like that.
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On the flip side it can be maddeningly stupid. I have two Tom's in my contacts. one is regularly texted and called and other very, very rarely so. When I try to use voice to text Tom, it asks me which one. Every time. This adds a lot of interaction and time and honestly makes using the phone touchscreen faster and more pleasant.

I have the Google Home and my kid loves the Ghostbusters song. For whatever reason if you ask Home to play Ghostbusters you need, first, to specify the song not the movie, even though I have no Netflix integration setup. Then when it gets it correct it will only play the instrumental version for some bizarre reason. Weird, its clear the Home engineers are Ghostbusters fans as you can ask Home "Who you gonna call" and it gives some humorous canned responses, but somehow they can't get playing the Ghostbusters song correct.

Worse, because I have Google Play Music, there's some kind of licensing limit with Home. If I have Home playing music then my desktop PC refuses to play any youtube content, not play music, but unrelated videos. I can't watch any youtube videos unless I log out. Its incredible how bad the usability here. Buying a device for your kitchen shouldn't make all your computers be unable to play videos.
> This is the reason that an impairment standard, rather than a chemical standard, makes more sense for criminal liability.

Impairment standards are far too subjective given the stakes. How exactly are you supposed to completely objectively measure "70% impairment"? You need a baseline, and the baseline driving ability of a person varies radically based upon time of day, emotional state, etc.

Impairment standards also lack any mechanism for differentiating between actors who know and don't know they're behaving recklessly. A cop friend of mine gave me a roadside sobriety test after a week-long period of intense work and very little sleep; I failed miserably. Now, should I have been driving? No. (And I wasn't!) But should "driving while tired" be treated the same way as "driving while piss drunk"? I'd argue not. Now, what about "got a cell phone call telling you that your parents just died, and you think you're OK, but you're not"? Jail time again?

Or, consider this case, which IMO amounts to "cut off the wrong person".

If this were a $20 ticket, I might be more sympathetic to your viewpoint. But the penalties baked into DWI laws are usually significant. We shouldn't be throwing people in jail because they were a little off-balance and jittery when pulled over on their way home from work. And especially not because they were perfectly fine but pissed off the wrong person who then lied about the results of an entirely subjective test.
Unfortunately, nothing new is built that way, that art seems to have been lost at some point during world war one. We can't even blame the car for that, as true mass motorization happened much later.

Early modern housing schemes (of which Berlin has quite a few really interesting examples, e.g. the Siemensstadt developments to the north of Siemensdamm subway stop) were a great response to how those traditional patterns sufferered from overcrowding back when they supported much higher density than today. Unfortunately, that style developed into something very ugly when it was ruthlessly scaled vertically a few decades later.
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Like cities and human development, there should be different areas for different types of work and different people.

Maybe you're a programmer and you want 100% silence, that should be available.

Maybe you're like me, who gets a lot more done in a small, focused group. You should be able to squat in a collaboration room all day and get shit done.

Maybe you don't mind ambient noise, and like to sit on a couch to work so people can stop by and visit and interrupt you for a chat and to share an idea. That should be available too.

Like most things in life, it comes down to having options available to people, and letting them make choices versus trying to predict or control behavior for "performance".
Can Duo be used to Google Authenticator or do you have to use "Duo Push"?
8.9% of 13,067 math journal editors are women
There is a high probability of finding H2O in his blood as well, if they found C8H10N4O2.
> Have you worked in an early- or mid-stage startup in NYC or the Bay Area in the past... 10 years?

...why do you think I have no desire to move to either of those parts of the country or to work for a startup? I like to describe Silicon Valley as "degenerate" for a few reasons, and this is one of them.

I'm perfectly happy working in the suburbs of Texas in a corporate environment (~500 employees, B2B telecom industry).

> and our baby to join whenever they wanted

Screaming baby in the office = I quit. I'm glad my current employer has "no children in the office" as written policy in our handbook.
This is the reason why I convert all incoming to plain text. It saved me from trackers and fishers so many times.
Chelsea Manning on Obama's 'Short List' for Commutation
For my company, we went with a semi-open design, in the spirit of your quiet rooms: Desks with huge glasses in front, forming rows of floor to ceiling cubicles. Think small offices with no doors and with glass walls. It allows natural light to flow through the office, while reducing noise. Noise reduction ceiling and a policy of quiet zone in the development area complement the solution, for what I think is a great work space.

We used Peopleware's (IBM's actually) ratio of 10 square feet surface area per employee and 100 square feet of dedicated space per employee. Not cramming people up is mandatory for success in high performing work spaces.

The only thing I'd add now would be a couple of extra non-assigned 4-pax work rooms, for when you know your team will be noisy for a while, or for those periods when you know you'll be on the phone a lot.
Well, Trump definitely ousted the professional politicians and his cabinet is full of the very rich.
How big a problem is that in practice?

BS3 is so widely used at this point that point that I think it is fair to call it 'done'. Browsers aren't going to stop supporting the features it uses any time soon.
That's exactly how I feel about it. Line length is something I couldn't care less about. If it makes sense to be on one line, then it should be. Otherwise, create the new line where it does make sense.
Prototypical example: healthcare. Healthcare in the US is one of the most unfree markets anywhere. Price transparency is near zero across the board, and federal and state agencies, which engage in reverse price-fixing (mandating costs for goods and services they cover), account for over 30% of all healthcare spending.

Coupled with the copious regulations around insurance, pushing it out of the realm of reasonable affordability for all but the biggest corporations, and insurance companies' backroom dealing with major healthcare providers, price discovery for the consumer is basically dead.

As a result, US healthcare costs have ballooned out of control compared to everywhere else in the world, with no measurable improvement in outcomes.
I'm having trouble seeing how your parents' net worth is relevant here. If you're interested in AI, you get a job with an AI company or you study AI in school, same as anybody else.

I'm guessing that none of that sounds appealing, though, or you'd already be doing it / wouldn't be asking this question. My guess is you're kind of like me - because you're in a good place economically, you don't have a lot of tolerance for the hard and boring grunt work that goes into intensive study or challenging jobs, and because of that you're not going to be able to achieve something awesome.

The solution is to find the thing you love to do so much, it makes the hard and boring grunt work pleasurable. That thing probably isn't AI, since you've got a MSc in Computer Science - if your thing really was AI, you'd just be off doing it. So if I were you, I'd free up as much time as possible and then use that time to experiment widely. Get an easy job or some unstructured academic thing to keep your parents happy and then explore whatever catches your eye. When you find the right thing, I suspect you'll know it.
I'm not sure how isomorphic the comments are. Perhaps I'm just not understanding your meaning correctly. Do you mean to say that the opinion of Guy 1 and Guy 2 are the same in essence?
>"X rewrote Z in Dart"

I don't believe I has any chance to happen this way.

I work on a big mobile app, I can see us adopt Kotlin, since we can mixup java and kotlin naturally (it outputs bytecode, so it is very interop). Flutter ? Even if you fix the runtime (and that's a big if), it means rewriting the whole app from scratch.

What I can see happen is google releasing Fuchsia as the future of Android and flutter on Android as a way to bridge the gap.
I'd be more worried about people using caffeine to mask sleepiness, which is a severe problem for driving.

But if they think he was driving tired they should have charged him with that.
Thank you @mewo2 for your insider responses - a fantastic ammendum to the original article!
This is the optimistic view. But it isn't difficult to imagine a Republican congress drastically cutting the funding available to teams like 18F. Of course, time will tell, and I agree that it's too early to judge yet.
PDF is really a container and can have just about anything inside of it.

https://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/odw13_submission_52.pdf

PDF with csv attachments is a good compromise but I rarely see that. Usually it is PDF or Excel and the PDF is a nightmare to munge.
I came from a world with shared offices and team rooms (about 10 to a room) and found the team rooms the optimal way to work -- with the ability to dive out into an office if you needed intense focus on something or privacy.

Open offices (note I'm meaning cubes here) can be done reasonably well, but I think they need lots of small huddle rooms you can dive into for focus, discussion and privacy and that everybody in your area of the open plan needs to be on the same page for noise and behavior.

Where open plans seem to really fail is mixing different teams in the same space and not providing any personal space at all. The warehouse full of big tables almost universally seem to be hated.
My rule for gmail... I type gmail.com then log in. That's the only path I take to log in. I never click a link and log in, etc. really I do this for most sites I use.
Two Wall Street trading startups are in talks to do a big deal
That parking meter thing is terrible but it probably wouldn't have been politically feasible to raise parking fees to sane rates otherwise.

Also, I really like Chicago. It's a great place to live downtown (and unlike other NYC, Boston or SF, living downtown is not out of reach for people making under $100k).
I'm really liking SemanticUI, but i'm thinking of switching to BootstrapV4 in the near future. The main reason being that Bootstrap has such a long history of tons of developers using it. Lots of devs mean lots of themes, documentation, etcetc.

My only concern is going with V3 or V4. I'd like to use V4, but that puts me at a lack of themes/etc, which is basically the same spot i'm at with semanticUI.. feels like a no gain then.
I've always got the feeling more often the reason is trust, they don't trust their employees to work without someone looking at them all the time.
How big were the companies you worked for? Some studies show that the benefits of open offices exceed the drawbacks for small companies.
New York City -- even in Manhattan -- still has neighborhoods like you describe:

https://goo.gl/maps/zQTS15XWCh92
That's why I said to reverse the code that produces the data, right?
I think the #1 thing would be to create software engineering departments. There is a lot of pressure on CS departments to focus on software engineering, when that is not the intent, desire or area of interest of many CS professors.
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Hi everyone, author here.

TLDR: A .pptx file is really a zip file combining many .XML files, and you can extract interesting information from that zip file using the command line (e.g. extract all images, export slide notest)

EDIT: here's a video of how to "unzip" a Powerpoint file: https://twitter.com/RobAboukhalil/status/818848130506424320
>baffled why Sam Altman is held in such high regard

I don't know him personally but Paul Graham does and thinks him exceptional so in absence of other info I'll trust take his word - http://paulgraham.com/5founders.html
Ask HN: How do you go about picking a new language to learn?
Aside from on-the-job reasons, how are you deciding which new programming language(s) to learn?