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> It seems to me that the biggest issue with the fire system was the lack of a graphical display of the alarm

i agree that the lack of a graphic/synoptic display for the smoke detection system was a horrid flaw, especially when rapid response is needed.

However, i feel that the lack of an automatic extinguishing system was pretty grave too; given the excellent record of automatic fire sprinklers in containing -- if not fully extinguishing -- fires, well before the fire brigade arrives.

Of course, accidental activation is a serious concern, but this can be addressed, whether through the use of a double-interlock preaction scheme (where the piping is kept water-free with a valve that is opened only when the heat/smoke detectors signal a fire; and even once the pipes are filled with water, sprinkler heads need to be individually activated with heat) or using a gaseous clean-agent instead of water.
So... don't completely discard native desktop apps just yet? That said, I suspect we'll soon see something akin to Eelctron for WebAssembly: a toolkit for making UIs that acts as a permissions context/bridge to making calls into the host operating system's API. Or maybe WebAssembly won't be the revolutionary tidal wave of change that many of its proponents hope it will be?
Can I just take a moment to praise the article's presentation?

This comes up every time a NYTimes interactive comes out but wow, the narrative flow on this one really is incredible. The animations smoothly transitioning to full text, the collage of socal media posts... It feels much more like watching a documentary than reading an article.

I hope this catches on, it's what I've been promised with this whole hypermedia shebang!
That happend to me too. They take photos of stuff that I didn't pay attention to. Maybe I should take a tour guide of my own city, since there's a lot to see apparently.

Anyway, those maps could also be that way because locals try to avoid tourists. It's not a big deal where I currently live, but it is very annoying in Barcelona, Madrid, etc, that kind of places. Not only because touristy places become pricey or there's too many people, but because some tourists are... special.
Use ccrypt instead. It is very reliable. https://github.com/Scott-Kaplan/Client-Side-Encrypted-Backup...
Tl;dr: 2x slower in FF, 2.5x slower in chrome. Depending on the application, that doesn't seem to be a huge tradeoff. Certainly many developers are comfortable writing things in python, which is likely hundreds of times slower than C++ in many problem spaces.

TBH though my big hope for web assembly has nothing to do with the web at all, but as a distribution format for drivers that can be installed on any cpu arch/kernel. Finally, my dream of BSD on risc-v is achieved! ....or more likely, just running linux on arm.
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Why aren't these implants based from designs of CMOS camera sensors?

Take a CMOS sensor, and put a metal spike on top of every pixel (easy with current processes). Now you have 10 million measurements that you can take at 240fps...
Attic nave sacristy is a location
Watching it happen can be quite a slice-of-life event. One guest who wanted to see my city's Chinese neighborhood was rather bitterly disappointed upon seeing it. "But it's just like any other neighborhood, only the convenience stores have Chinese signs in the windows!"

Pointing out that they also sell red envelopes wasn't much of a consolation.
It's a very, very vague error, and totally understandable that the new guard sent his colleague to the wrong place.

We'd expect a phrase to provide more granularity: (or YYYY-MM-DD), and as such, you'd read it exactly as: fire in the attic of the sacristy. The "nave" text is a bit weird, as the sacristy doesn't have a nave, but at the same time, the nave doesn't have a sacristy.
Commenting about being downvoted is inappropriate.
Honest question: What is the benefit of using this over a simple alias like:

alias timer='gvim --remote-silent'

Looks like the alias would do the same thing.
Yeah this is gorgeous

I wonder how much it costs them compared to a regular article
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There are lots of industrial ovens around that work in the ISM bands @ eg 27MHz. A good paper on the topic: http://www.koralassociates.com/app/download/1281730/Industri...
The license in no way guarantees this can’t happen in a hotel.
Interesting that during the fire, the world was piling on the fire fighting efforts as being insufficient. As the true picture started coming out over the next few days and now with this article, it's clear that the fire fighters had a plan and executed it well, likely saving the structure.
It's early days. Calm down. It will speed up.
> What humans have in common is that we are descended from the most aggressive, fastest breeding population that killed off all our close competitors.

We didn't necessarily kill 100% of all our individual close competitors. We might've won the majority of resources and protected them from outsiders.

We also could've been the most adaptable and naturally curious group that was more clever at over coming hardships and willing to travel long distances to discover new resources even if the risk level was high.
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This is exactly when I switch to brain damage mode querying. You like fixing typos Google? Have some typos. You like figuring out what I really mean Google? Here, I'll formulate my query like a deranged toddler on PCP, best of luck!

Maybe it just feels more successful because it lowers my expectations. But at least you get to mash the keyboard like a maniac, do no corrections, press return and watch it just work.

It's kind of like watching Google do a "customer is always right" squirm.
Luckily, youtubers can now also be astronauts:
http://astronaut.io
(I'm not a 'silicon valley investor')

If you were to tell me you managed to get a top tier MBA in much less time than normal (e.g. a year instead of two) and for free (instead of $XXk), I'd be super-impressed at your resourcefulness and determination.

If you tell me you spent 2 years and a whole bunch of money to get some letters after your name, instead of devoting those resources to the business you're asking me to fund, then it might be a negative signal.

Would you rather invest in a company that spends time and effort to enter and win startup competitions, or one that is fully focused on getting product-market fit?
Pretty shocking, thanks for such a detailed analysis
I agree - my SO is from Peru (and the Andean area as well, which is considerably more isolated than say, Lima) and we speak a lot about how different life is there.

I think proper internet access could really improve their lives.

It'd be great just if her grandparents could speak with all their grandchildren let alone the use that local farmers and businesses will have for it.
Won’t that be a security nightmare?
Not only was the second incident not related to AirBnB, but in both incidents you describe, having cameras would not have provided any value.
Those places you're looking for are called hostels. They're cheaper and there's likely more of them than hotels in any given place. They're also legal and don't break the social contract.

EDIT: I'm sorry, I only just realized that "hostel" in Europe means something entirely different from "hostel" in the US. What I mean by "hostel", per how we use this term in Poland, is a cheaper version of a hotel, where you still rent by the room, and rooms are usually 1, 2, and 3-5 people-sized, and usually have kitchen and a bathroom in the room. They're not like dorms, they don't involve shared bunk beds. I don't know what the right term in the US is. Bed&Breakfast?
But the nave doesn't have a sacristy, and the sacristy doesn't have a nave.

Sacristy seems to give the location of where in the nave, which considering that the cathedral is cardinally aligned, is a rather poor choice.

"Attic nave south" would have been a perfect description.
No but a license requires a regulatory body and that body should be tasks to inspect such things. Of course if the system is corrupt and broken it won't make a difference.

Why have companies require FDA approval/inspections if it doesn't guarantee that there isn't some poison in your food?
I find the UI good but not worth that much of a cut. Maybe this is for people who can't roll their own solution.
I hate to break it to you, but I Java didn’t do this for you I don’t think WebAssembly is going to either. :-/
Would polarized sunglasses work in that case then? I regularly get a shimmer from any LCD or OLED phone when on the town
Trying to force vegetables Gluco Neuro Blood Sugar Support Review on a kid will only repel him or her. Try mixing vegetables into dishes your child already likes.

This isn't to fool him or her. be forthcoming about the vegetable ingredient but allow them to realize that veggies can taste good. Focus on Health, Not Calories. Because most diets zero in on calories or kilojoules, your natural reaction may be to have a sit down discussion about portion sizes, calorie counts and the like. This isn't the best approach as studies suggest that dieting in young kids can set them up for eating disorders later in life.

The focus should be on healthy bodies. and which foods are and aren't healthy for a child to eat. This is a good time to start gently pushing veggies as they are an incredibly important... yet lacking, part of a child's diet. Lead By Example. Children look up to their parents, and if you're sipping on a Pepsi while taking away their soda, you're likely to produce an internal conflict within your child.

http://wedidreviewforyou.com/gluco-neuro-blood-sugar-support...
Soft serve ice cream is decidedly different to the regular ice cream you are likely to find in a shop.
You don't mind drivers being half as performant as they were before, with the only benefit being they're easier to distribute? Why? How is that beneficial to anyone except the person packaging the driver?
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Would this system support custom aggregates? How would I, for example, create a routine that defines a covariance matrix and have Ballista deal with the necessary map-reduce logic?
In the JCL you just specify how to link the logical IO definitions in the program to the actual physical IO objects (real file names etc.) in the environment. The IO statements are still in the program.
This idea has already been used in a movie 24 years ago.
Check out "Strange Days" (1995)
Thanks for the summary!

> as long as the route the call takes is via a licensed operator. This is Twilio's problem, not yours.

I surmised as much. Have not been able to speak to Twilio. But Plivo's reps assure me that compliance is not an issue. But we want to be doubly sure. Do not want to be railroaded by legality somewhere down the line
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Except that generally doesn't happen, and illegal AirBnB sublets absolutely do deserve to be reported to police in every single instance, because they're instances of antisocial individual behavior coordinated by a multinational corporation that profits off it.
Keybase builds a lot on top of saltpack, which works like a saner PGP: https://saltpack.org

The underlying cryptography is NaCl, which is referenced in the original post.
I have lived in probably 15 apartments and never ran into one neighbor I couldn't handle, and you somehow have 3 at once? I would say that the problem is probably you. If not, and you have just hit the bad neighbor lottery, you are free to do what I have done so many times and move.
The logic is when you made DDG your default search for the address bar. Then it becomes the zero-stop jump off point for all the other search engines they have !bang syntax for (which are thousands, I think).

I used to configure those as search keywords in Firefox (and before, Opera), which do roughly the same without the exclamation point. But on a new browser, even just configuring your favourite top 5 searches is a lot of hassle compared to just setting DDG as the default search and using their bangs.
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There are reputable serviced short term lets you can use I know one team I worked on moved from the Balmoral in Edinburgh to a flat.
That's the problem. Everybody has to guess. Everyone thinks there is something out there that somebody else knows. This is a problem I dont have in some of the other ecosystems.

That I would have to (i) write my own cos or (ii) take a dependency on a commercial 3rd party library that will likely not be around for long or (iii) call a native library through and FFI, for something as simple as a cos of float32 is not terribly exciting.
For anyone who wants to look into that, it's called "kasina practice." There's a chapter about it in Daniel Ingram's book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, though he describes it as an advanced technique for people who already have a high degree of concentration.

There's also "image streaming" which is similar, and might be more accessible:

https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photogra...

http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm

http://www.winwenger.com/isbackup.htm
I use to talk over people, and sometimes I still do. But I try to stop myself and become a better listener. I find the conversation becomes better.

I was listening to this episode on the Knowledge project https://fs.blog/celeste-headlee/ not too long ago, and it got me to really stop and think about how I converse.
"Suggestions about stricking a balance would be greatly appreciated"

Michael Neilsen (spelling?) suggests adding something into your Anki deck if it's worth >=10 mins' time to memorise. (As that's the total time you'll spend reviewing it in Anki, if you keep using Anki forever.)
Excuse my mistake, the McMoneybags Museum is not in a wing of Richie's house but down the road, and it's open not once but twice a year (or by appointment).

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/business/art-collectors-g...

The IRS isn't stupid, but they also don't have the resources to audit everyone who makes a dodgy claim.
IIRC, most smartphone cameras can clearly detect IR, so another option is to wait til dusk, or darken the room, then scan it through your smartphone camera looking for pinpoints of light that show the IR bulb.

Ofc, doesn't work with cameras that don't have IR.
Sure. There's an escalation process in this; going round to ask people not to do something. But if that doesn't work? Or results in aggression? Or actual violence? Or, because of the character of the neigbourhood and people's fears, they worry it might? People turn to the police to mediate their disputes.

And the problem with AirBnb is that every new set of guests re-rolls the dice on how they're likely to react.
> an offline compiler like Clang can spend considerably more time to generate better code, whereas WebAssembly compilers must be fast enough to run online

> [security] checks are necessary for WebAssembly’s safety

> current JavaScript implementations reserve a few registers for their own use, which increases register pressure on WebAssembly
How is buying a new phone easier than installing an app?
this looks like a PR sponsored by wireless industry, take it with a grain of salt.
Yeah, I'd say that it's actually pretty good result. Too bad that the benchmark doesn't include any non-browser WASM runtimes, like Wasmtime or Wasmer.
I'm always nervous when I went through Airbnb because you are never really 100% certain until you arrive. While it is significantly cheaper than a hotel or even hostel sometimes it is just better to pay a bit extra and be secure with your choice.
One sensor detecting a fire can be a false alarm. More than one sensor detecting a fire is very rarely a false alarm, and really ought to call the fire department.
In Germany I use OSM exclusively for navigating and it is very good. Maybe not quite on the level of Google maps concerning things like live traffic, but certainly good enough to reach your goal and then some. Love the project and would have liked to have DuckDuckGo support it instead of using proprietary data.

Google Maps has shown what can happen if you use it for anything business critical.

edit:
Sadly OSM doesn't yet have services like forward adress search (might be too expensive to provide). It would enable many businesses to use it for adress comparison to clean up their own data for example. I think that could put OSM on the map so to speak.
The browser is a really good sandbox. The security of browsers is also what makes web apps easy to distribute.

That said I don't see the point of writing drivers in webassembly. If you want better security for drivers, there are better endeavors like microkernel architectures which Linux still isn't using.
> have become very cynical to the whole tech-pr0n-bro-startup hype machine

Like most people probably I change my job every 1.5-2 years and have become increasingly better at spotting companies where this culture is in place. At the same time I notice there is increase in non-toxic cultures, I think there is hope... ;)
Take your project, whatever it is, on a laptop. go to the nearest pub or bar, not the drunken kind but the calm almost Starbuck like.

Find someone in the range of who your average user is, and offer to pay them a beer if they agree to use your interface to do some simple task on it for five minute while you take notes and record the screen. It's a sort-of game for them, short enough that it won't be a hassle, and they get a free beer out of it 'it's inexpensive for you and will reveal some obvious issues faster than a team of dedicated qa tester can ever hope to be.

Here it would be a simple "here is the alarm you get, identify what is the problem and where it is". Given parent post, 5$ and ten minute of beer testing would have told them how terrible it is.

Works fine with group too, ensure one person is the dedicated user, and offer to pay their drink tab.

Be ready to engage with them if they have question and do not be timid about keeping their drink coming if they so desire, as long as they provide valuable input.

It's so obviously stupidly simple, but the result are insane, it's very cheap and you get a perfect case of "how will average person x understand and deal with my software in that situation".

(first learned of it on a hn post years ago, adopted it for fun, kept it because it works too well)
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Issues of timing and of the interbreeding of new arrivals with established populations seem to be second-order effects that don't (yet?) fundamentally challenge the broad out-of-africa scenario.
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Depending on the city/hostel, they might not allow a city resident to stay in their hostel. Aside from that, in dealing with a difficult situation like the parent comment mentions I don’t think many people would enjoy being in a many-person bunk room with zero privacy.
Anecdotally, I’ve had to stay in a hostel due to relationship issues and it was awful, more expensive than an airbnb, but was the only thing I could find last minute.
That will basically pick up every piece of electronic equipment in the room. Given that cameras can be hidden in them too, and that you'd have to take apart each one to be sure, I don't think a NLJD will tell you much.

They were developed at a time when electronic equipment was far less common, so the presence of electronics was more suspicious; now, you can come across things like deeply embedded RFID tags (only used for inventory tracking) in otherwise completely non-electronic products.
I can see how this could be confusing.
If you click it once, on a fresh log in, it will stop switching. When you press it again it will resume switching.
This is going to be a pretty blow-below-the-belt suggestion for our (Polish) sensibilities, but since I have very little charity for antisocial behavior - especially of the "I profit, I don't care" kind, and doubly so when coordinated by a multinational corp pretending to be a hip tech company: I wonder if the owner is paying correct taxes on the money made from AirBnB leases. It would be a shame if the Revenue Service came and checked.
Electron apps can already access the host OS, spawn child processes:

https://github.com/martinjackson/electron-run-shell-example
And yet, until Tesla came about we didn't have that many electric cars running around, nor did we have many companies investing heavily to change the status quo of gas cars. The same goes to reusable rockets. As many other people said in this thread, Musk is a PR nightmare and is a very peculiar public person when it comes to his tweets and such, but I wouldn't put it past him to actually find the talent and bankroll this until they achieve their objective.
Depends on how well the sandboxing it set up, I suppose.
>> I see no sense in them myself

Cool. Don't use them.

>> often they leave their diesel motor running

Seems a genuine concern. I suggest you voice your concerns to the operator whenever it happens. Escalate to authorities if it becomes a serious problem.

>> ice cream vans (and hand car washes) carry modern slavery risks in the UK

Not cool. Please don't denigrate an entire class of something you dislike using FUD. Even if it's true occasionally, it's certainly not true in general.
"Certainly many developers are comfortable writing things in python,"

But python is a high level script language with gc. WebAssembly is very lowlevel, so the people who could and would write in python will not write in wasm and also not in C.

Wasm is still awesome, it is just not, what many hope it will be. And a distribution format for drivers? Well, I am not a low level expert, but that seems very unlikely to work out, from what I understand.
Especially for security-critical operations, it is often a good idea to disassemble the relevant sections of the binary and ensure that things are handled appropriately. Optimizations can result in security controls not working as expected.

Edit: More background:

https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/MSC06-C.+Bewar...

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/The%20Corr...
Like in any other language, write a parser? What do you mean by the wrong format?
It can already make use of WebAssembly:

https://github.com/anderejd/electron-wasm-rust-example
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Maintaining the same level of curiosity about your city that a tourist has is a challenge. You "just" live and work there, it's hard to get excited about your own city.

Some years ago I tried to be a tourist in my own city and basically treated my weekends like going on a city break as a tourist (helped that it was a city of several million inhabitants and some centuries of history, so it had some potential). I discovered some really wonderful places, sometimes right next to the streets I drove on every day for work. That made a difference for me in how I looked at the city and made my life there just a bit more content.
I use Hacker News (YC) by Dharmesh Patel. There's a 'load more' button at the end of the frontpage, so the scrolling is not automatic.

https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news#ios
There are many fascinating relics and bizarre ancient remnants in human DNA. Endogenous Viral Elements are a great example of this. Referred to as “horizontal evolution”, there are a variety of organisms that have the ability to literally transfer their DNA to other species. Something like 5-8% of the Human Genome is the result of “injections” from these paleoviruses.

Part of that percentage is junk / redundant DNA strands humans evolved over time to make it more difficult for viruses to navigate and compromise our DNA.
OP said out sourced, not open sourced