skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"houses are now built with very little regard to insulation"

I find that hard to believe. Where I live the local muni delegates to a state wide "uniform dwelling building code" I googled it for laughs and the minimum ceiling insulation as of the '09 revision was R-49 which is about 14 inches of fiberglass.

My concrete block basement walls met code 50 years ago at about R-2 insulation value, as of '09 the mandatory minimum for new basement walls is R-15, OK then..

The biggest problem I see with post-AC era houses like mine is very poor cross ventilation. I must run the AC when its 60 degrees outside because the windows are not oriented for cross ventilation so I will roast alive at 85 degrees indoors when its 60 outside without AC.
You missed a major point decentralized doesn't mean relatively evenly distributed.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/1-bitcoin-community-controls...

Nor can you guarantee it because it's hard to prove an individual.
I live in a building that does use central cooling. I'm not quite sure how it works, but I believe that they pump chilled water through our radiators. The radiators are more like air conditioner radiators than traditional cast iron radiators, and they have fans attached that can be controlled by the renter.
The Future of IoT: What will the world look like in 2067?
I'm going with they're corporations who's goal is profitability, not enriching you personally. They're companies, not institutions. You shouldn't expect much.
LocalGlobe goes ‘beyond the Klein brand’
Police cam footage shows pattern of microaggressions towards black people
Website is painfuly slow.
12bit RFID tag is screen printed
Trustless Bitcoin Anonymity Here at Last
>Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.

Because the people in power don't want to compete in a market.
To answer your question, yes I have actually used a phone or video conference.

I currently rely on wifi calling on my cell phone and it works flawlessly. I also rely on Vidyo, Skype and Google Hangouts. All of the latest versions of these work just fine. There are many distributed teams that use these to great effect every day, mine included.

>"Some of the most important information I've picked up at work has been from overhearing keywords and jumping into a conversation across the room, chatting with coworkers at lunch, etc."

You could also miss out on these if you happened to be in the bathroom or getting a coffee at that time, or wearing headphones. "Being within ear shot" seems like a strange requirement in 2017.
PS4 lead over Xbox One is “at least 3-to-1” in Europe
> Before we talk about Harvard grads destroying the eocnomy, lets talk about making it less and less likely for 75% of the people imprisoned to ever be able to contribute to society once they are released.

Why not both?
Use Braintree and have to say I like it. Paypal are a tad evil though.
Look up the word in a dictionary. It's perfectly legitimate and correct use of the term.
It seems like an excellent idea that is only an idea. I was pro at first but most of the time I dread a little. Only advantage is that it suits mobile a little bit, and now google has mostly one UX.
here goes my phd thesis :( They are too fast for a single mind to beat.
Remember when you could hit "View Source" to see how the web was built? I don't like where this is going. Minification was bad enough, now we're going to be getting more non-free blobs shoved into our browsers and this is being touted as a great new feature for us.

It will end up being a tool of control and surveillance like always.

This guy says it a bit more eloquently than I can:

https://lobste.rs/s/wjtu7c/webassembly_mozilla_won#c_yqsej7
There are more choices than malloc/free vs gc.
Soverin – A private mailbox that’s truly yours
I teach college occasionally, and definitely agree. It is a conveyer belt from freshman to senior, and those students who have not thought beyond their coursework may be in for a rude surprise post-graduation.
Asleep I guess.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14494818
The issue is circular, in this regard. You should't HAVE to work two jobs or perform above average just to make ends meet.

FWIW, I'm 25, working in non-tech at the moment, making 32k a year in the one of the more expensive cities on the east coast. I'm trying to relocate to a cheaper part of the country but between mandatory student loan payments, high rent and general cost of living I can either choose to build an emergency fund, or dump it all on the cost of relocating.

My bigger point is that this attitude of workaholism is way too prevalent in American culture. Cost of living and wage decline has followed the trend of "down on their luck millionaires" who think everyone else is just lazy.

When minimum wage lands you in deep poverty the system is broken.
Sadly this was expected but it's not clear what Apple wants developers to do about this now. I am very happy that normalization is removed from the FS layer but I wish they had removed it from Cocoa as well or at least picked a different normalization form.

The fact that Cocoa apps create different filenames than the terminal is not great. It's even worse that some UI (like Finder) seem to cause even more confusion is not helping.
Apple iOS 11 Announced with Enhancements of Siri, UI, Music
I'm not the author of the package, but it works for me. How do you import the package?

It should be `from google import search`.
Certainly, it's not rocket science either.

I wonder why we don't see much more competition though.
echo chambers are boring, but so is ruining terrible malformed arguments.

neither side has a monopoly on those, to be sure.
Yeah, America has not only had an over-classification problem, but it's been inundated with contractors with unnecessary top clearances. The Washington Post had a great investigation back in 2010 cataloguing the sheer size and complexity of America's security and intelligence system:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

Some findings:

> Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.

> An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

> Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.
The office HVAC was one of those new green energy efficient one. It didn't seem to extract humidity as well at higher temps. I complained about the humidity level, but it was easier just to move to a cafe with decent AC.

I wasn't sweating heavily, or any at all, just my arms were sticky to the desk. It was warm enough that long sleeves were out of the question, so contact was unavoidable. Also, my desk was next to a window facing east, and our blinds were a bit tricky to raise and lower (decide between, darkness and heat filtering).

It is easier to deal with 26C as a baseline temperature in LA than BJ given that humidity is much lower in the former.
Apple is becoming a bank (finally)
iOS never exposes low-level filenames to the user.
This is simply incorrect. /pol/ has never attempted to be "ironically" fascist. Its memes have always been a true reflection of sincere fascism and racism.

/r/dankmemes has similar subject matter but it's clear that it's ironic and it's black humor.

They are two fundamentally different things. Nobody is being indoctrinated into being a fascist from the latter. The former is actively attempting indoctrination.
Not only. This phrase seems to suggest that, if the industry is dependent on my code (without directly paying me for it), I am in some ways responsible of the costs they incur if I decide to ruin, kill or modify it. Nobody would ever write OSS if that was the case.
What scares the shit out of me is some crypto funded decentralized AI. And the first use case seems pretty straight forward. Start with visual search.
Lyft Plans to Test Self-Driving Cars in Boston, Thanks to a Local Startup
Imec makes plastic 12-bit RFID tag with screen printed circuit
This was a surprisingly amazing lunchtime read. Very interesting and nut theft? Never thought something like that would fall into organised crime, this was a real eye opener!
Useful spending of that money would be UX issues, making the horror that is using this stuff bearable.

Usability is atrocious and if you do not use it all the time you have to google the simplest things (for which the results are mostly outdated or wrong or bad practice so you have to be careful with which explanation you follow) which the software itself could explain to you.
Monument Valley 2 arrives with a beautiful family twist
HP fixed the biggest issue with its VR backpack PC and will sell it next month
Ideally you should be able to live life without these worries on a singular, average paying job - no?

These events could happen to everyone - why is it required to go "above and beyond" to have some sort of sense of security in life?
>Whether critical-thinking skills are actually valuable for making money

if you know when to keep your mouth shut and when to speak up, i'd say yes.

>personal happiness

certainly not. an analytical mindset rarely exposes the happy truths, which tend to be self-evident
DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems
> The title is click-bait and over-dramatises the issue.

Sadly it's not.

> The choice of APFS is that a filename is a sequence of bytes. Nothing more, nothing less (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here).

That is incorrec. APFS treats filenames as utf-8 strings and depending on the API you are using normalization is still taking place but on different levels. For instance all Cocoa APIs will perform normalization but the underlying syscalls and posix APIs will not.
Machine Learning Workflows in Python from Scratch Part 1: Data Preparation
Moneyball for Real Estate
Thanks for the comment, I added a small paragraph along this line: http://blog.openbloc.fr/webassembly-first-steps/#part4
So there's silicon alley in NY, silicon prairie in the midwest, silicon forest in portland, what do we call Jersey?
Google developed a school curriculum to help kids fight trolls and hackers
The net effect of the generic non-versioned "ipad" naming is to make me feel a bit dumb. I can recite spec changes between Samsung Galaxy models, and keep close track on aforementioned Dell and Lenovo products, but for the iPads I just draw a blank.

I don't know. I bought an iPad (Air?) a few years ago for my son. It may have been in September 2014; it's one of the slim ones (perhaps "2nd generation slim"??), and it looks pretty much the same as the newer ones.

I struggle to tell the difference between them; as long as it works I really don't feel an incentive to upgrade it. (Protip: The thick child iPad cases are just about bulletproof).
Ask HN: Has Apple redeemed itself to developers?
Given the announcements yesterday.
IBM's New PowerAI Features Again Demonstrate Enterprise AI Leadership
I will second this. After using Worldpay for 5+ years decided to shop around for better rates - none! Depending on the level of integration you may have some issues during setup but once live it all goes smoothly. And just 10p fixed for processing debit card transactions! Nothing else comes even closer
critical thinking also incentivizes discontent, generally speaking.

better not to ask the difficult questions
actually a better use case would be some kind of crypto trading app.
Landmark IPv6 Report Published: State of Deployment 2017
To me the purpose of the sentence is (by order of decreasing importance):

1. Reciprocity. The modern justice system is a social contract where the victim accepts not to seek revenge himself, which would give the powerful a complete impunity over the weaker. Instead the punishment will be applied by a greater force, historically the King or the local lord, now the justice system. If you tell a victim that we don't intend to punish the person who hurt him/her for the greater good of society, the victim will have a legitimate sentiment of injustice and may seek to take revenge directly (think of some Saudi prince committing rape in europe, it may be in the interest of the country to let him go, the economic impact of upsetting the Saudi may be much more than the grief of a victim). I think negating this aspect is extremely dangerous for a society (and I see this aspect completely negated in some European countries). But it is by no mean the only purpose (many crimes have no individual victim, like not paying your taxes).

2. Deterrence. Ideally you want criminals not to commit crimes in the first place because of the fear of consequences. If nothing happens you create impunity and you ultimately fuel more crime. Now prison is not a miracle deterrent. Some criminals are too dumb to consider the consequences when committing a crime, or are unafraid of some jail time. Also deterrence will have no impact of terrorists on a suicide mission. But it is an important role nevertheless.

3. Protecting society. Some criminals are deemed to do it again. In some instance the cost to society is low (consuming drug again) or high (rape or murder). In some cases the cost is too high for society to take a chance and the sentence is also a way to "take out" a criminal element and protect society. But this should be in fairly limited extreme cases. But you do not send Madoff to jail just to ensure he doesn't start a new Ponzi scheme. This is a secondary purpose of prison.

And of course rehabilitation should also happen during the execution of the sentence. We would only make the matter worse by not using the jail time to help criminals find a better way. But I do not believe this is either the primary purpose of a sentencing (hence it should take a back seat).
Are you implying that it should not be?
Some states you get money, some states you are not entitled to any whatsoever.
I'd bet it's browing in incognito mode versus actually clearing cookies.
Thanks for the heads-up, now I can remove that extension!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegk...
> And because of that Microsoft will finally start succeeding on mobile.

I've heard this joke before, but go on..
Train which runs on virtual railway track unveiled in China
Show HN: An “ethical” YouTube auto ad skipper chrome extension
BlackBerry downplays Toyota's use of rival software
That looks pretty close. A few small things are missing if you want complete parity:

* wireless keyboard and mouse
* bluetooth
* 802.11ac
* 10GB ethernet
* speakers
* web cam

I'm sure you could budget those comfortably within the remaining $800 or so.
There are entire niche businesses existing solely because of this issue!

http://www.wristies.com/
I get what you are saying and I'm not anywhere near as informed as you are. Although I did see some lab tests that did show a change in the bacterial environment after using the spray and the fact that it works for me, personally. I spray some in my car and bedroom as well.

I cant give a name though; I just bought a box of 'samples' from a guy that's doing some research with it. But it's years away from market, judging from his story. Could send you a 20ml spray if you'd like. :)
At the end of my ordeal I had to pay 25 dollars of non-refundable "court costs". There is a Supreme Court to be decided on soon which should determine the constitutionality of this practice even after one has been exonerated.
To each his own - personally I don't get validation from material goods, vacations, or social status.

If that's what makes you tick, then by all means work your fingers to the bone trying to achieve those things. But this shouldn't be the golden standard for a life well lived.

I believe that as a society we should focus more on building happiness through mental health instead of buying into the "buy more be more happy" way of life. Again, if that's what you truly want then go for it - but it shouldn't be assumed.
On the flip side, maybe they wouldn't let that happen again, then. :D
The MT Interview: ARM'S Simon Segars on Running Britain's Biggest Tech Business
> "Navies around the world have been using arresting systems for more than a century to land aircraft on ships."

I have a hard time believing there was aircraft carriers as of 1917 !
Are you mixing npm and yarn? Or which do you use? Just hit a small problem with npm.
There is actually no competitive market here.

I agree there is a lot of danger in profiting from incarceration. However, it would be good if someone figured out how to solve the problem and a profit motive is a reliable way to do it.

In other words, the profit motive would have to work towards eliminatin the problem--that's my point about a properly regulated market.

Maybe some other users here are right and I am naive in thinking people will create fair and just rules that others wont try to cheat.
Is Blue Apron Even Going to Exist in Five Years?
Well we have laws and plenty of dangerous people who belong in these prisons. Another thing to consider is other countries will execute their prisoners over drug dealing where we put them in prison. There is also the fact that we are the third most populated country and a melting pot combined with plenty of terrible neighborhoods of all ethnicity's.
I think the point is that, you should increase your prices, instead of showing a lower price and then hitting your users with a "processing fee" during the payment process (whether online or offline).
Redirecting the truck seems unlikely, but dropping a couple traffic cones in front of one in the middle of nowhere and calmly unloading it with no driver to hassle you will be a lot easier.
Other than Google or for new grads, what companies do not have the team with the opening do the actual interviewing? In both I have worked for, and every one I have interviewed with except Google, candidates interview with the people they will be working with, including their manager.
Creating a long-term view for the semiconductor industry
FYI: this is how it works in various other countries
> To be honest, I blame Unicode. Why allow different representations for the same character, and then provide a normalized form anyway, except it's not one normalized form but several?

That's not really the issue here. Even if you can avoid normalization in some languages the problem will come back in others. For instance what are you going to do about invisible characters, control characters or more? Traditionally software attempted to just ignore the problems and let it blow up in other places. For some fun issues just try whitespace and bell characters in filenames and navigate around in your shell.

Normalization is just one of many issues with filenames.
Hi HN. This is my first published chrome extension :). I always skip ads in such a way that content creators get paid. But doing that manually especially with playlists can be a little tiring. So I made this extension to do it for me. It's open source as well

https://github.com/spartakode/Youtube-Ethical-Ad-Skipper
Wow, so I can rob a bank than get out and collect 75k, that is an awesome thought.
The exact same story is told in the film industry. Edison's patents were very strongly enforced on the east coast, but not in California. All of the film studios then packed up and headed west.
That would of been great to have mentorship, but I ended up doing it the harder way, Struggling and reading code like a book. I learned a ton though, and its taken a while.I hope to soon provide people with tutorial/walkthrough with 3D apps.

You should take a look at AR.js, its a cool project that will hopefully provide that wider accessibility. The challenge with Apple's ARKit is that its AR technology( is much more challenging than Vuforia, and tricker to implement.
Benchmarking Go programs
Are you an Engineer?
Scientists reduce fear of death by using VR to induce out of body experience
> In Europe there is this strange concept that developed that crime is a sort of disease and that prisons are kind of hospital.

What you call "strange" is backed by psychology, psychiatry, neurology together with a lot of evidence.
That and 'going on a bender', that being going out and drinking (or otherwise becoming intoxicated) excessively over a long period of time.
NSA contractor Reality Winner accused of leaking file on Russia election hacking
Telecom Alley, given that much of the tech jobs at the time were through Bell Labs and affiliates

Or we could just call it uninhabitable.
Well... You scan your printed page in and scan the dots and see what colour they are, then you change the background to that colour...
MIT OpenCourseWare – Classical Mechanics (Fall 2016)
"More than a third of officers [at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] make more than $100,000 a year."

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sdut-priso...

(dated 3/25/2015)
> If you refused to work, you were put in the box and 5 days were added to your sentence.

Don't you need a judge to determine that?
Thanks. I'm building a mobile travel assistant but also wanted to learn how different people plan their trips.

I was planning a massive trip for my family and it took a lot of great effort but also left me feeling that I needed to have the Internet with me in case of an emergency.
It looks like the spec is here:

https://webassembly.github.io/spec/introduction/index.html

I feel like writing a mini-compiler after glancing through it. It looks closer to a binary AST than an instruction set, though.
I'm not sure it's "hidden" in this case. In fact, the hamburger seems to just open "shortcuts." The fact that I can click Advanced and see where Passwords are is a big improvement, in my opinion. One of the main reasons I go into settings is to manage my passwords. I always had a hard time visually scanning for them with the old layout. So there's one tiny drop of anecdotal evidence that it's a little better.
You can use the Boehm garbage collector in Emscripten/WebAsm.
The dew point in my house in August when the AC is running continuously is in the 50F to 60F range. The dew point is around 50F outdoors for a couple months before and after August.

The dew point in January during a cold snap spends weeks around -20F. This is fairly self evident, we have some crisp dry snow free mornings around -10 to -20 every winter and obviously if the dew point were above -20 it would be snowing at that time, or at least cloudy. If I try to humidify the house it'll just get moldy so I let it dry out instead.

I have noticed my hands get dry skin problems, skin cracks and gets infected, when the dew point is below freezing for a couple weeks. Winter is a bad time for static sensitive electronic experimentation. I participate in many winter sports activities and when the dew point is -20F you don't have to sweat much to get hypothermia or dehydrated. Dehydration is a big problem for long distance hikers in the winter, you have to carry the water in a thermos or it'll freeze and tradition is to drink caffeinated hot beverages which makes you pee which dehydrates you faster than not drinking at all.

You'd have to live in an interesting climate where the dew point in the winter is higher than the dew point in an air conditioned house in the summer.
After 5+ years using Chrome, this single change made me move to Firefox.