skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been hotter than hell up here in Portland. Over the last five years, at least three summers have seemed hotter than any summer I can remember. This August was the hottest on record:

http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/09/01/this-past-august-was-po...

And I believe it! It's gotten to the point that a forecast of ~80 is a huge relief. Used to be I thought 80 was hot. The worst of it has been the nights when it doesn't even cool down much -- it's hard to sleep without AC. I'm planning to get AC set up this year. I don't think I can stand another summer without it.
True. But whenever things like glaciers melting, Arctic sea ice melting, etc. get brought up as evidence for global warming someone inevitably mentions that recorded time is quite small in relation to geologic time. It's a response that is useless and it's annoying to hear. It's the global warming equivalent of Godwin's Law.
For comparison the hottest previously recorded September 1 in San Francisco was only 32°C in 1952. (Mentioned in the article as 90°F)
Yea, we freak out (read: sun-flu) when it's over 35°C.

Except for those few weeks of BC haze.
She was calling out common traits for people then trying to label them Chinese, and readers, like you, suddenly feel "interesting"...

> how overseas Chinese students in America all copy each others work to get answers?

Student colluding is any special? I was college ta before, I do not think there is ever a class students do not copy each other.
I must be the completely wrong target consumer but I just see so little value in all of this to warent any expense and security risk of the appliances being networked.

Oven preheating: takes 15 minutes when I get home barely enough time to prepare whatever I'm putting in there.

Loud dry/dishes alerts: I don't see how it's useful. If I'm not home it doesn't matter to me if the laundry or dishes are done or not as I can't do anything about it.

Any filter changes: almost all either work on specific timing intervals, so just set 5 years worth of reminders in your phone, or they detect pressure differentials and a service light can just turn on when the machine needs a new filter.

Manage AC for max efficiency: nothing a programmable thermostat can't handle unless you have really crazy schedules but even then the savings are minuscule.

Turning on/off lights: okey, could be useful.
I don't have air conditioning at all and I'm not used to it, but I don't consider 75 degrees to be a cool night. "Cool" doesn't enter the conversation until you're under 70.
So what you're saying is coal mining causes smoking.
What % of Intel's sales by volume do you think goes to AWS, GCP, Azure?
mountain view and surrounding area is pretty hot during the summer, and you need air conditioning. it cools down after 9pm or so, though.
Source? er, I mean "citation"? Wait, I mean "on what grounds"? ahh dammit
Most of the links are behind a login. Why even post this here?
Unfortunately layering is not as simple as "defense in depth". Each layer may have its own vulnerabilities, and so the attack surface is increased. There is also a history of issues in mis-matches and side-channels arising in how layers are combined, which can be very subtle. So overall there's a trend to simplicity and as little code as possible.
You can order bullets on the internet.

Does this fall under the banner of 'use the internet to help kill people'? Your facetious post and response seem to imply that you had something more specific in mind, or perhaps something by a specific group.
Cool showers can help. Even room-temperature water is great at transferring heat away from your body as long as the room is at less than human body temperature. Also, if you have a fan, this is a great time to point it directly at you. If you don't have a fan, Walgreens should be open for the next sixteen minutes.

(I'm in similar straits at the moment, but feeling fine.)
Road damage is almost all caused by trucks and subsidized by car drivers (gas taxes go up linearly with axle weight but road damage goes up parabolically).
To maintain product pricing and value perception.
> I don't see many new places being built without AC

SF building code has an airflow requirement, and an AC system will satisfy this requirement, so all new buildings are just putting in AC units.
EFF Calls on NY Court to Vacate Unconstitutional Injunction Against Speech
Wechat is more innovative than Android and iOS.
But streaming dataflow is the simplest kind of FPGA problem - it feels like trying to force an 'actor' metaphor on simple data transformations?

I must be missing something, can somebody tell me what?
That information reshapes your brain is something I think that most of the people on this site and reading my comment understand. Johnny 5 said it best - INPUT
I'll take all the dark patterns they have if it means I can avoid hotel chains' own booking systems. At least I already know the dark patterns of booking.com.

Tried to book a one of Starwood Preferred Guest hotel. Had to create an account, but this is a given. For a single room there are 12 offers you can choose, really simple /s.

The cheapest offer is for "SPG Member Exclusive. Am I one? How do I know? I guess I'm not, just created an account, but let's try anyway since it isn't disabled. First thing they try to upsell me on a room with 3X price. Can skip it. Now the price is different, it includes VAT. Why would you not include VAT in the first place? You have to pay taxes in Europe. Ok, apparently the price includes 5% discount and a free wifi (wow). Let's try others since 5% is not that much.

Oh, if you click the small link you can see the prices without the upselling attempt. Again no VAT included, but why is this "Save 10 percent - prepaid rate" somehow more expensive then the 5% discounted rate? Maybe this is for non-exclusive people.

On the first sight "Weekend package" offer is just more expensive, no value added. Unlike other offers it doesn't say this in the title, but it includes breakfast.

There is "SPG Member Exclusive: Flexible rate". Still don't know if I'm exclusive enough, but the rate itself isn't flexible (I blame bad translation though, part of the interface is in my language, part is in English). It's just a cancellable offer.

There's also a cancellable offer for non-exclusives such as myself.

Other offers either include breakfast or are some expensive packages.

I have given up, since I don't know if I'm an Exclusive Member. The price on booking.com is the same as non-exclusive one, so really no point in booking here.

Other strange thing for me. Every place on the site mentions some points. Is this an American thing? If you just want to book a room it feels like you are paying a premium, so the points-people can pay less. How I guess it works: you choose more expensive hotel/room to defraud your employer, so you can get more points to use on your own travels. Just a wild guess though.

IHG.com hotel was no better. Again confusing pricing, where what you see first is never the end price. If you choose breakfast, it changes rate but also includes some "Additional guest charge" (???). There's "IHG® Rewards Club Advance Purchase" and also "IHG® Rewards Club" and normal rate. Don't know which can I take.

The 'points' thing here is even more ridiculous - you can pay more to get more points, like pay X more per night and get Y more points.

In the end I booked on booking.com. It was 3.65% cheaper through the hotel chain site if I'm exclusive enough (still don't know). I probably lost some points, but I don't want to be constrained in my travels with some loyalty programs. SPG only has 7 hotels in my country and IHG has 5, so I would have a hard time earning those points. Also I almost always travel privately so can't defraud my employer for points.
" The world is flat! "*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat

Check out Thomas L. Friedman (@tomfriedman): https://twitter.com/tomfriedman
I just don't see what benefits Bitcoin gives to me over a regular bank.

First of all because it is decentralised, it is much less scalable than the current system, so I don't think it is going to be able to replace regular banking anytime soon (although I don't know a tonne about the scalability issues).

Also I like to have a centralised system, because if my bitcoin gets stolen/I screw up and lose it, it is gone forever. If my money gets stolen somehow, I call up the bank and they reverse the charges. Having a central authority is also pretty nice because they also give me lots of other benefits like credit card rewards, making it really easy to move my money around into different savings accounts or investments, etc. And regular currencies are also backed by the government, so are incredibly stable, unlike Bitcoin which changes values very quickly.

Bitcoin is also deflationary, which is a bad trait for a currency to have, as it discourages investment, and encourages people to hoard money instead of spending it.

I'm sure there are use cases for Bitcoin, but I don't think it is "some utopian shit", since the current system works super well for most people.
Forecast for next Wednesday here in beautiful Austin is high of 86F and sunny. This can't possibly be Texas.

lets ignore that 10" of rain we got last weekend...

also my company is hiring. jk but seriously.
It's because I can't use it to do business with anyone in my market, I can't buy anything I want with it, it's volatile, and it's an absurd waste of energy.

Enjoy the run, but sell at the right times because ultimately it will end in some form of tragedy.
My background is not in economics but the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath kept me interested on the subject long enough to develop a general understanding of macro.

I would say the economists who most shape my views would be Nick Rowe
( http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/nick... ), David Beckworth
( http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.ca/ ) and sometimes the more controversial but always entertaining Scott Sumner ( http://www.themoneyillusion.com/ ) .

A while back, I wanted to do as a side project, a game with a realistic macro economy but I got stuck at the learning phase and never got around to do the game (the rabbit hole went deeper than I had imagined). While I was researching, I put some of my musings about what I was learning in a few posts here: http://bessiambre.tumblr.com/ then later kind of summarized the views that I had formed in the following medium post: https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...

I'm sure my conclusions are simplistic and over-general compared to those of real economists.

My email is b.essiambre@gmail.com. Don't hesitate to write if you have questions.
I am not sure how did you draw this conclusion. The article is at best just reaffirming stereotype, at worst plain dilkusional manipulation...
One 37°S latitude and one 37°N latitude from the equator I could have sworn Melbourne was much closer to the south pole. That gap in the ocean looks much smaller than San Francisco to the north pole. I live in that gap it's called Canada.
As a resident of TX, you have my condolences. Here we measure the intensity of our summers in terms of the number of days over 100 (typically around 4 weeks I'd guess). OTOH, SF rarely experiences temperatures that high in any year. OTOOH, because of that I'm guessing few people have AC. So yeah.. I feel for you.
Don't forget the nail in the coffin: the windows nt-based SGI workstation...
I've asked this question myself over the last few years and agree that it really needs to be addressed. I believe the truth is that we've created a new tier of government legal authority. The military has become incredibly powerful, while the requirements and danger of of being an officer have skyrocketed. I have no doubt we have a need for both of these positions, but the idea a lower-level peacekeeper existing and taking some/many responsibilities from a modern and militarized police officer interests me.

At the same time, what functions should the police not fulfill that it currently is?

Does anyone know about the Stanford prison experiments?
1. False equivalence. He did not kill the nurse.

2. Do you really want this to go ignored and for the instigator of the issue to go free?
Gold and silver can't be "forked"
It makes me think of Darwin's journals, where you can see him picking up on useful little tidbits from the stuff he's read and observed. His reading of Malthus was a major influence on his development of natural selection theory, but it's not like Origin of Species is a Malthusian tract. Exposure to other people's thoughts helps create our own thoughts.

There's a great many scientists and philosophers who were wrong about things but who provided the structure and patterns necessary for later thinkers. From Plato and Aristotle to Smith, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud...
Kind of like the joke about trying to find a carpenter that isn't a drunk.
For what it's worth, I think only puritans worry about kindergarten kids seeing breasts.
One of the ways I learn is via code review. In a side project I'm often doing new things that I am not already an expert in. Any ideas on how to get feedback that things are ok vs not?
Overwork: a trauma survivor symptom
Maybe she just did it for the money.
I didn't really find it that difficult to move from security consulting/research/code audits => dev/researcher at security vendors => machine learning engineer.

So I don't know how we decide whose anecdote wins here :p
The only century routinely teach her citizen about how to do revolution, and is called to respect hierarchy...

I must be living in a China of a parallel universe.

But one thing I agree, do do appear use statement without backup, that certainly one common traits of Chinese education: teach facts not reasoning...
The phone will work for as long as I don't break it, and I can find it any time. Adapters break, get lost, and are extra clutter to carry around.

The point is not that I can't pay for it. It's that there's no good reason I should have to except some marketing goon thinking people want thin phones, and some execs wanting to sell expensive headphones.

If I'm paying $700 for a phone, it had better damn well be the phone I want to have. A phone without a headphone jack is not a phone I want to have.
Whoops -- thanks for that! I forgot to give that link but meant to.
Condolences?

As citizens of the largest industrial nation whose president not only doesn't believe in climate change, but is even working actively to bury it: You don't get condolences, you get to apologize to the rest of the world and realize that you too need to work on fixing this.
Less commonly used web apps; they tend to have poor security because no-one has cared/known enough to make them not horribly insecure.
Guys, I guess your climate really is mild. I walked a few miles to the Sam Jose airport and noticed it was warm.

Had no idea San Fran was setting records :)

(Lived in Texas, Florida, Utah.)
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You should call it "Unter".

<ducks>
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It's the means not the ends...
No, it's like I'm saying "College graduates earn more income" or even "Men like football more than women do".
I've got cold beers on 29th if you want.
Uh huh. And what exactly is "hate speech"? Black lives matter? White lives matter? The NRA? Abortionists?
My point is just that "you can't directly do it over the internet" applies equally to both examples, so you need something else if you want to distinguish them.
> As long as they believe, it has value.

Yup, just like every other currency ever to exist.
It's possible for there to be a shortage of people AND millions of unemployed people if they're unskilled.

That's certainly the case in India, where the majority of "software engineers" can't tell me the maximum value an 8-bit integer can have, or claim that an object's instance variables can continue to exist after the object gets deallocated. One clown even wrote an if statement with two else clauses, the second one "just in case the first doesn't execute".

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/engineering-emp...
That's what we're hoping to solve. The state of affairs with online booking is disgusting and the customer is too far removed from the process, while hotels are being strong-armed into price fixing.
Commodore 65
I wonder where switchfly factors in to all that, it was my impression they did white label stuff for a number of the above -- apparently not?
With bitcoin you pay transfer fees. The network effectively becomes the middleman.
I've lived in the bay area for 26 years. We have a couple/few at most weeks of hot weather in the spring and fall, the rest of the summer the fog is sucked off the ocean by inland hot weather, and winters get pretty chilly.
The idea that you need ac in SF is wrong IMO. East bay is a whole different climate and story....
Not the author, but I don't see why not. I'm sure you could apply some machine learning techniques that combine the stylometric features extracted with demographic information.
To be reverse-fair, they know exactly how people will understand it.
Or the industry could standardize receipts so that they can just be scanned into the fridge.
There is no way to answer your question in a way that will satisfy you. The best way to assuage your concerns is to hop on Slack and talk to him. He doesn't make himself hard to talk to.

It's always a risk. But investors choose whether to take that risk. And from speaking to at least one of their potential investors, they don't seem to be too bothered by that since they have gobs of ETH. They stand to lose $10k but make much more.

It's a greedy motive that will likely result in them losing their money, but meh. It's their call.
There are plenty of days where I miss living in the bay area.

Today is not one of them.
Wow, we really must be living in parallel universes. Are you sure “revolution” is encouraged in China? In fact, are you sure revolution is encouraged in any country?
We have a hiring process for folks with no infosec experience. It isn't easy, but it works. The guys at Deja are solid and consulting makes for busy folks, so don't hold a low opinion of them. Probably did not pay close enough attention to the initial email.

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Dude, there's no reason to make his words political. Texas gets temps like this regularly, and thankfully they built their houses with AC, but some probably have dealt with not having AC for some part of the summer (in places like Texas or Florida it's required to have functioning AC by law, depending on where you're at, just like water and electricity). He didn't say anything about climate change, or anything about politics, so there's no reason to bring it into the discussion.
A coincidence in a naming blitz
depending on who's counting, the deviation is currently like +0.21 degrees C since 1980. although it is a meaningful amount you probably could not actually "feel and experience" it
Looks like a pretty clean refactoring to me!
We're just as angry as you are. More people in the US voted against Trump than for him. Just because the GP is from Texas doesn't mean they don't believe in climate change.
This is a google redirect to ft.com a pay gate site, not google itself.
My ~$400 CPU budget went toward a Skylake i7 a couple of years ago, I'm afraid.
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This isn't political, this is about a country dragging the rest of the world along into death, and then commiserating itself not about how bad its own actions are, but about how bad the death feels.
I agree fully. It may look like there's fierce competition to someone who has failed repeatedly, but here's what it looks like from the inside: In my experience at three of the big tech companies, we extend offers to everyone who meets the bar. It's never a case of "we have 3 strong candidates, so which one do we choose?". If we have 3 strong candidates at the same time, we attempt to hire all 3 - attempt meaning in competition with other potential employers. If we have 3 weak candidates, we don't settle for the best of the current options - we hire 0 and we wait for more candidates. If you're not getting hired at AmaMicroGoogBook it's not because there's a surplus of great SDEs and some other candidates edged you out for a limited number of seats - it's because you simply didn't make the hiring bar.
WET A T-SHIRT AND WRING IT OUT WELL, THEN PUT IT ON.

You can get by with temperatures up to at least 100 degrees this way. Personal experience from heat waves in Europe where many people do not believe in air conditioning.
Would you say the same thing to a victim of Hurricane Harvey?
I think the sample sizes might get out of hand as you'd need a good deal of miner and control subjects to filter out the noise.
There was an incident here in St. Louis years ago. A fire truck blocked one lane of a major highway to prevent anyone from rear-ending the accident scene and the first responders. A police officer ordered the fire truck driver to move the truck. A fire officer then told the fire truck driver that he was to leave the truck right where it was because it was a safety issue. The fire officer and the police officer exchanged words and the fire officer was arrested and taken away from the scene of an active rescue. So yeah, police arrested the fireman, but later a court case ruled against the police officer and awarded the fire officer $18000.
> Thats more her style, not doing it for attracting attention, more because shes interested in modifying her body

That doesn't change the fact that the media is still NSFW in the U.S.
I'm pretty sure you just made an objective subjective about subjective objectives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-...

But there are others as well.. he won the pulitzer for his reporting on this