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Also some wood is being treated in buildings which makes it hard to recycle wood. Specially if this acts as insulation or earth contact, it will be an improvement.

This is already happening in many attics and walls. Also that's why new construction technology deeply focuses on airtightness. The airborne particles you are pointing out is symptom of bad building science, not a cause.

As for consumption of adjacent materials, near the end of the article the talk about how it can be triggered.

The spread operator does not have the same quirk. I use it but it's still a bit weird tough

[...new Array(1000)].map(something)

This is great! Any option to filter spam/hate speech automatically and not on the front-end?

It's amazing that their kindness has touched so many lives but yes, the need for it could have been avoided in the first place.

Haha, quick turnaround.

These sort of networks are also either completely reactive, or show proactivity based on how a new idea "sounds" from a high level perspective.

So basically a library tries to print something in the console and instead of using `console.log(...)` they use `print (...)` as if it is Python. That instead invokes `window.print` used to actually send something to the printer.

The mesh networks target the last mile problem. That is the big point to be addressed as it causes the affordability issues and is the main connectivity bottleneck. To improve the existing system full decentralisation is not necessary.

That is typical for the order times, it takes weeks. Now that it is the singles day, it would take even longer.

An easy solution is to look for the ones with ePacket shipping. It is tracked and you'd normally expect it in two weeks. Some give it for free, some charge about a dollar for it.

Where I live that thing alone is $17,000.

The progress in this field is astonishing. It wasn't even a few years ago that the typical demonstration in a paper on GAN would have been an array of very small images. I recall often seeing numbers between 64x64 and 256x256. At the time, the argument was raised that the resolution can hardly be increased because it is our brain that tries to identify objects and faces in the photos to figure out what they are representing.

Then here we are, with indistinguishable 1024x1024 recreations and trippy latent space interpolations. I know not every researcher or entrepreneur has the resources of NVIDIA to train for this many days, but let's not forget, that part needs to occur only once. It makes me wonder about the day that a GAN manages to bankrupt stock photography services.

The problem right now is that the tests are not rigorous enough, so they don't even need to do that. The regulation allows them to test the radiation level when the cellphone is 15mm from the body. If the cellphone is on the body without a gap, none of the flagship phones meet the safe level of radiation when they are broadcasting to a tower far away.

Also, the radiation test only tests the size of an adult's body, so children, who will have a larger region of their body and head impacted, are missed from the test.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm69ik_Qdb8

I don't find my answer, I just have one question: does it send any "usage stats" or "unknown files" back to them? If your computer establishes any kind of connection with their center it wouldn't be only something for the public, they'd also benefit.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing but seems important enough to be discussed.

Thanks! I don't understand why screenshots are missing for most of the stuff I see everyday. We just don't have the time to install everything and then see how is the interface.

280 would be the absolute maximum. I think their hope is that the number of English tweets that reach that amount is very low; at the same time they allow users to tweet easier.

Apart from the product failure, I think we have all heard the stories of people having those as christmas gifts and ending up in ER for injuries on the same day.

That could have been overshadowed if they could satisfy a niche. They are neither useful for going to work nor Indy Grabbing. Let's just hope next time the trend turns toward something like that it solves a problem.

I doubt anybody will ever see this response, but about the Hoverboard, here it is:

Hoverboards are originally from China [1] however, most of us have likely learned about them from Kickstarter etc. I think the users of HN would agree that "invention is never a sudden thing". The process for hoverboards has been iterative, of course. I have heard claims of having commercial hoverboards as much as five years before they became household names in the US.

[1] https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY?t=33m52s

I think this alternative is more reasonable. Those who think China is just a copying machine, underestimate the influence the Chinese engineers had in the landscape of many industries. The hoverboards (the type with wheels) became a household product thanks to them.

Conceptualization is not making something actually happen, unlike what the patent-trolls want us to believe. IoT was first proposed in the 90s, but did it gain any traction before cheap Chinese prototyping components? This bares the question, is it the West that has made IoT or the East?

> It’s time to kill the web ... I’m going to review the deep, unfixable problems the web platform has: I want to convince you that nuking it from orbit is the only way to go

gee, those statements are bold. Not only JS or even the front-end stack, the author wants to kill the whole web and make a new one.

I can say it is not a first time I've seen an engineer seeing something imperfect and suggesting that everybody should immediately abandon it to make something better from the scratch.

Like many of you, I am looking forward to see the second part for a web alternative. What I am interested in is how the author wants to make his proposal as beginner-friendly as the web already is.

Let's not be too sure about that. For Target, a lot of people forgot to put the name under the logo. Does McDonald's have a name with the logo? If so, where is the name?

Also, what about capitalization? is Mcdonald's all lowercase, small-caps, or first letter uppercase? is the "D" upper case? Many people may write "MacDonald's" (notice the extra a) which is a common mistake given that the burgers are named "Big Mac" not "Big Mc".

For Domino's a lot of people forgot the apostrophe. You also forgot that for McDonald's.

What about the background color? is it white? red? blue? will people remember where the "registered" trademark is?

These are all mistakes that push a drawing out of the "perfect" criteria.

Not to be confused with Broken Window Theory

Let's give some love to MakeHuman now that we are on this topic. I was astonished to find this gem when I was trying to model characters. It exports human 3D models to blender with rigging etc.

and of course it is open-source and free

http://www.makehuman.org

Well, I read something that I take with a grain of salt and so should you, but here it is:

Those new Nokias are only carrying the brand name under typical chinese design and manufacturing process. The incentive would be to revive the brand in markets where Nokia had stronghold with its cheaper models and the average phone has poor quality. If that's the case it'd be very disappointing for what you are expecting.

Has anybody done synthesised art on web yet?

The coolest thing I've seen so far was that guy who was exporting MIDIs from JS and was playing them live in MIDI software. Edit: also the opening of JSConf 2014 if I'm not making a mistake.

Well, the guy founded Android so it would be interesting to know what he has to say.

I also watched that MIT talk and it was quite insightful; however, as I searched a bit more, I realized that the metrics involved in the presentation are only for achieving surplus in the generated energy from fusion.

When it comes to industrializing the idea, the scope is far broader. For example, the speaker was saying that they can use the neutron streams as the result of fusion for creating tritium. In reality, capturing the neutrons is much more complex than that [1]. Some of those may deposit on the inner surface of the tokamak and have to be recovered by 99% to have breakeven. The nuclear waste is another concern in the opposite case.

Given all these, you get a sense that why companies like General Fusion [2] get funded. He showed that General Fusion is very far away in his metrics. But the pinching technology the company is offering, allows for continuous use of the fusion in rapid bursts (like an automatic rifle). When I met them at the Globe conference, they were claiming that they will be ready for production within 5 years of achieving a surplus. I am not sure how fast the tokamak can get there.

Source: 1. http://thebulletin.org/fusion-reactors-not-what-they%E2%80%9... 2. http://generalfusion.com/

I neither know Rust nor Go, and I didn't knew about these operations in the Windows. But I get surprised when some other stuff end up in the front page. People have different scopes and the multidisciplinary of HN makes it a valuable network.

I think they changed the landing page. Now if you click on that "Hello!", or go to hello.p5js.org it comes up.

If you are comparing cryptocurrency exchanges with the real world transactions, stuff like this could have happened quite often in the old times. There is the story of the man working cast away for years with little connection with the rest of the world. After he comes back to a town he finds out that the king has changed, so all the notes and coins he has accepted as salary over the years are useless.

In reality, our banking system is much more chaotic than what the end-user sees it because central authorities are keeping the whole system together. and their authority is just what all of us believe in. Now, some people, for better or worse, started believing in something new.