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He mentioned that he bought that cnc machine like it was no big deal. I looked them[1] up, the cheapest one was 6 grand!!

Does there exist a sub 500$ cnc router that you can actually build interesting stuff with and interface with a computer?

[1]http://www.shopbottools.com/mProducts/basicPRSsystems.htm
Looks like the IRC on my other monitor..
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> Why is Bitcoin forking?

"Why are we forking Bitcoin?"
Bitcoin is Forking on it’s principals

There is great debate and concern about Bitcoin trying to change its core software. Network tests have found the credit card processor can process many more transaction per second than Bitcoin can. Some influential leaders want to make changes that will make the protocol more competitive with VISA/MASTERCARD. They want to change increase amount of transaction processed in each block (the block in blockchain technology). The important issue is not about changing Blockchain size it is about changing the hard coded rules that are the foundations for trust in Blockchain based systems. What is there to stop future forks that change other rules that users relied upon in their choice to participate in this financial system. Lets say some economic interests in the future lobby the influential core developers and miners to change the amount of coins mined in the future to let say 100 million. If the users rely on the software to enforce it rules any important changes to the rules that are significant can effect the end users in unpredictable ways. The users of Bitcoin have no say. Once again a small group is making choices and if they are wrong they can destroy the entire system. A system that relies on influential few promoting there own economic interest is no better than a public company issuing out more shares when they see the need or the government printing more currency. Those who want to take Bitcoin into direct competition with VISA/MasterCard should simply create a new coin designed to do this. There is so much more to the potential of the protocol than just a cheaper way to spend money. The principal of hard coded rules they can not be changed and are enforced by the software is one of the true revolutionary idea’s of Bitcoin. There is more at stake than creating competition for banks. Its about staying true to a financial system rules that users chose to participate in.
You mean like these? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animations_of_ma...
Why are new companies the only ones that matter? A huge number of software companies (and, more importantly, non-software companies with a big software division) have been around since ~the dotcom bust, which is arguably when Java started gaining it's biggest ground.
I'm curious - does this quote have a source?
The thing we need precaution against is AirBnB hosts who've turned renting out apartments into full fledged businesses. Because in my experience when someone doesn't actually live in the apartment, quality drops and there's no actual home-iness. One exchange: "Is this a mattress? Is it not just a box spring?" "I'm sorry you don't enjoy this type of mattress... For this price point for this rental, this is what you can expect."

As far as full apartments go, I'd seriously like to meet one AirBnB host in Japan or China (the main places I've used it) who aren't part of AirBnB based businesses, just 1 person who is actually sharing their home while they're away for a bit, or whatever AirBnB claims it's all about.

This is the giant elephant in the room about AirBnB, and I doubt they're ever going to discuss it publicly.
Hence: languages with a lexer pass followed by a parser pass.
For anyone who's considering the bike commute but thinking "I will sweat so much!" do check out panniers. The OP says he only likes panniers for grocery shopping, and it's true a lot of panniers are basically buckets you strap to the back of your bike. But Arkel, a Canadian company, makes:

* a pannier that turns into a backpack

* a pannier that turns into a briefcase (though their new design isn't as conservative as the old one)

* panniers that actually works as shopping bags with handles

as well as a full line of touring and camping panniers. And their customer service is good -- over the last 12 years I had a zipper and a strap repaired on them.

I like commuting a lot more when I don't have stuff on my back -- it feels like it makes me more agile on the bike.
What do you mean? Whether it actually exists or whether it will have a significant impact on the world?

If it's the former, the network has just recently launched and you can buy "ether" from a few crypto-coin exchanges. Also "apps" on top of Ethereum will start showing up soon. Augur.net has a crowdsale tomorrow.

If it's the latter, well who knows? It's been years since Bitcoin was created and it's still debatable whether it was "successful" in changing the world or not. Ethereum promises to allow many more "Bitcoin-like" apps on top of it (but not necessarily currencies, also other types of decentralized apps), so from that point of view it may have higher potential at least.
Companies and products get their reputation damaged often because of the people who answer the call lack of common sense and empathy... At the same time, they expose the problems more effectively than anything else.
> I'm not talking about applying DUI to marijuana or people sleeping in cars

Great, but I am, and that's the disconnect. I agree with most of your comment, but the issue isn't that the premise is wrong, it's that the implementation is wrong. When I say that law isn't just, that's what I'm referring to.

The law may be logical in its premise in the abstract, but the actual implementation of DUI laws strays far outside those logical premises, the real world doesn't match the abstract. You're talking about what the law intends to be, I'm talking about what it actually is because imho that's what actually matters. I don't care about the good intentions behind the laws, I care about those being fucked by the poor implementation of said laws.

We don't have the highest incarceration rates in the first world because our laws are just, we have it because they aren't.

> Where the line between acceptable and unacceptable rise in risk can't be precisely defined and must be established by social consensus

That's just rephrasing what I said, something that relies on social consensus "is" just opinion and is not precisely definable, and by that I mean it isn't empirical, rather it's a popularity contest, i.e. political.
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I fly about 105 times a year (I mean, 105 "legs", not 105 roundtrips), and have been doing so for the past 7.5 years. I would say AMA, but... Not joking... I am taking a flight in 2 hours. SFO to JFK.
I don't say this to beat my chest. Traveling for work, like this, is terrible in the long term. I wish there was a better way.
Incredible timing. Just yesterday while looking at a door opening mechanism, I was just wondering where I could find something like this.
>Yes, XT infuriates those who hope to make money based on the appreciation of their pre-fork bitcoins.

Could someone explain how the XT fork might affect the future value of currently-existing Bitcoins?

I expected it to have a neutral effect, since one fork will eventually die out (and since the fork does not try to change the rate at which Bitcoin are created). Even if both forks persists somehow, every holder of a current Bitcoin will essentially have 2 Bitcoin -- one spendable on one fork, another spendable on the other.
> T-Mobile already offers 7GB for $50

Does that include tethering? I've noticed a lot of carriers offer a... well, not a large amount of data, but some amount that's on the better side of terrible, but if you tether, the limit is much lower.
> Just look at the frustration of browser users with Mozilla constantly rearranging the UI or Google actively removing functionality from Chrome

Welcome to the brave new world. (Apple removing functionality as well.)

Windows 10 is moving to a continuous update process that is exactly like Gmail, Facebook and all web apps, and for exactly the same reasons.

At least this avoids the "big bang" updates that left incompetent organizations running buggy, insecure 14-year-old code. (The buggy insecure new code actually does work a lot better ;-)

> Block even knowledgeable users from choosing whether to install specific updates?

How many are of those exist? As far as I can see, the number is between very, very small and zero, and even the best know far less about updates than Microsoft (because Microsoft can see tens of millions of PCs, and it has the source code).

That very small number has a problem because Microsoft is trying to cater to a billion users who don't even pretend to such arcane knowledge.

Otherwise, there's a business branch where you can delay updates for a few months, and one where you can effectively delay them forever.
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Could you share your research so far?
You can install your own glibc and run a full Linux userland on top of an Android kernel.
IBM -> Watson.

The problem with separating one kind of AI from another (such as machine learning) is that anything we do with a computer can be described at as a Chinese Room [1] at a high level of abstraction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
> Still, logic and decency would suggest that when you’re in danger, as Mr. Lopez claimed to be, Airbnb would come to your rescue.

Does it? AirBnB doesn't have duties to guests because they're just a transaction middelman. Hotels are liable for the safety of their guests, but they also have control over the premises they rent, which AirBnB does not.

Of the various criticisms against AirBnB, this is the least sympathetic one in my opinion (the tragedy of Mr. Lopez's individual situation aside). When you rent off AirBnB, you're renting from some random stranger, with all the attendant risks. You're not renting from a company that bears liability for your well being. That's just the nature of the transaction.
Same with the prosthetics story. Increased bandwidth over mobile networks could enable them to print more arms? This is only solvable with 5G?
Your "city of cities" comment is right on, but I'd argue about the bus lines being perfectly usable. I tried to go from Pasadena to the Getty Museum once. It took 3 hours due to the wheel-spoke setup of the bus lines -- I had to go downtown first and then back out. Six hours on the bus for 1.5 hours at the museum.
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DUI punishes more than the impaired.

> That being said, generally speaking, a drunk driver who happens to not do anything wrong on the road is extremely unlikely to have any legal issues.

That might be true if it weren't for things like DUI checkpoints, which make it untrue. You can be perfectly fine to drive and still get caught and punished because of what are essentially baseless mass searches.
They have 4,500 open positions in Seattle alone.
> T-Mobile already offers 7GB for $50 and 40x that would be 280GB, plenty for most home users.

Um, lets say conservatively that an hour of 4k video is 8GB (1080p is ~4.7GB/hour on Netflix). 280GB gives you one hour of video/day in a month - which sounds a little low, considering you may have 3-4 people watching different streams. And that doesn't even include video chat, which surely should be something we expect for the next 10 years?
Higher speeds mean we can offload high-speed processing to remote computers (cloud etc...) and give you the same services for smaller devices with longer battery lives or improved experiences with the same devices.

This is critical for wearables like AR glasses and the like to become commonplace.

For example we build 3D point clouds in real-time on devices and then process them on the cloud to stitch them together to then reload on the device. With super fast internet we could move our mapping to the cloud and could reduce our hardware requirements to basically a camera, battery and an LTE chip.
Congratulations on making something cool and useful.

But I think it's not Bash vs Ammonite, it's more accurately (Alternatives to Bash) vs (The Ammonite alternative to Bash).

I've never worked in an environment that uses sh for large systems. My use is just my daily conversation with my OS and file system. I say things on the command line. Sometimes I say certain things in sequence often enough that I collect them into personal "jargon" scripts of two to twenty lines of Bash. For anything larger I generally use Python.

My dividing line between Bash and Python (or any similar language) is conversation vs contract. A conversation is relatively informal. Anything larger requires negotiation and agreement by parties (me and the OS) using technically understood formal language (to strain the metaphor).

I think Ammonite is more like the contract than the conversation, but maybe not as much as Python.
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As bad as that is, that's £25 less and 5GB more than what I've seen available in the US. I've been wanting to switch to wireless internet, but it just doesn't seem practical.
Perhaps the case here is that AirBnB is misleading guests into thinking that it'll assume responsibility equal to the responsibility a hotel would take, when it really doesn't.

Anyway, sadly (and obviously) this submission has been flagged, would be better to carry discussion to a lessly-YC controlled platform: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/3h7ivz/airbnb_h...
>If XT is successful, why wouldn't Hearn (or Coinbase, or another person with interests divergent from large bitcoin holders) publish XT 2.0 removing the coin max? Or introduce any number of other inflationary changes?

That's a rhethoric device one should avoid using.
This is why, on mobile devices, where you have a new kind of UX, almost everything needed a native UI implemented as an app. The Web is a nice programmable hypertext system. Sometimes it's worth pushing the limits of that. But not for everything.
> That's an interesting thing to say, as I'm a Software Engineer, and one of the most "techie" people I know.

And yet your default opinion is don't touch things we don't understand, which prevents us from ever understanding them; you must see how illogical that is.
Very true pitfalls, and there are other ones like any non-captured value anywhere in a function becomes the output of the function.
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The majority of AirBnB rentals in NYC are "entire place", or at least they were when it was easier to compare available numbers. This despite the fact that renting out your entire place when you're not there is illegal in NYC unless you've specifically been licensed as a bed and breakfast. Not just illegal as in 'violating your lease' (the majority of AirBnb) but illegal as in a violation of the law. Interestingly, AirBnB's NYC commercials only highlight the private room with the family also present since they own the place aspect - which is a very small portion of AirBnB's NYC business.
I just looked at the etherium page and it says they already launched it and there are already companies/applications built using it.

That doesn't really answer the question one way or the other. Still, for what it's worth I would like to remain optimistic about it.
https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 is a nice motivating example of why I think this project is useful
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In China, many people invest their money in properties. So, you would have a well-off household owns more and more apartments just for safekeeping. I would imagine it's a good opportunity for AirBnB type of services to thrive. At the same time, a lot of Chinese are quite distrusting of unknown person for good reasons. Renting out their own place with all their belongings can just be asking for trouble.

Japan on another hand, might be doing a better job welcoming guest to stay over their own home. I wouldn't know though.
Beautiful response to a recurrent misunderstanding.

"Shell languages are defined by their terseness."

It is common to see people put a layer of verbosity on top of the Bourne shell (or system(3)) to make "a new shell".

It is also very common to see people put a layer of abstraction on top of a large, verbose scripting language and claim the result to be a new, "terse" language (with all the power of the shell).

But what I like about the Bourne shell is that it is built from only C. And it does not add too much verbosity. It is, as you say, defined by its terseness.

There is also terseness in the roff-like typesetting languages, assembly languages, FORTH, k/q, etc.

Compared to k/q, sh is verbose.

For me, verbosity means loss of power and loss of time.

I am glad there are terse languages.

They may never again be popular but I think they will always exist.

"The worst parts of the shell are the flow control structures..."

For some reason I dislike if/then/else. Instead I make heavy use return values, ||, test(1) and case/esac.

I always wished Bourne's shell (cf. Joy's C shell) made use of more C operators. There's a file called arith_lex.l in the Almquist sh source but these operators are not used in the sh language.

I would switch to the Plan 9 shell but Bourne sh remains more useful due to its ubiquity.
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It does not. "Threaded" in this sense means "hierarchical chat messages," like the comment threads here on HN.
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Malware that uses this exploit to cause damage is a straight up attack on users. Merely revealing a vulnerability isn't an attack. The vulnerability was there all along, and there's no guarantee that this person is the only one who could find it, or even the first.

I'm all for responsible disclosure. But I think we need to clarify good and bad here. Responsible disclosure is better than just announcing findings to the world, but telling people about what you've discovered is not bad.
By "coming to your rescue," it doesn't mean actually coming... It means just call the cops at least. Instead, they asked her to call cops then let cops call them to get address. It seriously increase the response time, and potentially cost lives. It seems to be common sense to me. So, it does!
There is also one possible scenario where both forks survive and become two distinct currencies.
Google Inbox also has the "boomerang" style feature of snoozing emails.

You can't schedule emails to be sent, however.
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Windows 10 is orders of magnitude more usable than any Linux desktop that I've seen. All this does is toggle a bunch of settings for you.

To make Fedora even remotely usable I had to un-Mac OS X it by installing a bunch of third party tweak tools and plugins because they took all of the major UI anti-patterns from OS X.
This seems it is almost getting it to work in a musical sense. (The Irish songs seem to be simple enough for the NN to understand it back to front, also a lot of 'similar' samples definitely helps)

The NN seems to be able to assemble the repeat sections with different endings and having a song with two distinct sections

But they seem to all be in the same key and time signature
I'm not saying it has no uses, just that it's not going to bring some sort of revolution, especially with such low data caps. If the current networks aren't rolled out more widely then giving hot spots of very very high speed isn't going to lead to new services as there's not wide enough coverage.

I use my mobe for tethering on holiday and it's great but the only problems I have in that case are bad 3G coverage.

Yes of course the bump from 10mbit (which I get with HSDPA, top speeds on HSDPA here in Barcelona are over 15mbit) to something like 40 is useful if you're using it for your desktop/laptop but that's not really what this article is about.

The general assumption that higher and higher data rates will enable new uses just doesn't hold true to me. In the last few years my home connection has gone from 30mbit VDSL to 300mbit fiber and honestly it's only really noticeable in a few edge cases like downloading games on Steam. I see no radical new use cases taking any sort of advantages of these sorts of speeds, just as I haven't for 4g mobile networks.
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I had the same thing happen to one of mine recently - I put it in the microwave (not on) to silence it. No smoke, no fire, nothing - and it went absolutely bananas.
Is it weird that I enjoy both?

I can appreciate really nifty code, but I also get very happy to see my code get used by other people.

One is more of an intellectual satisfaction, and the other is more of an ego boost.
And people think C++ is hard to do correctly...
Which conference is this?

I tried Googling "!!Con" and obviously the exclamation marks don't count as part of the search term. Apparently Google doesn't know what I mean by "exclamation mark exclamation mark con" either. There's also no link in their YouTube channel...
There exist plenty of "Desktop" CNC Routers -- these are generally cheaper but have a smaller workable space than what comes to mind when you think of a classic CNC Router.
I have 2 monitors that connect to the laptop so I have 3 screens.

I have a standing desk.

What am I missing?
A recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673796
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If your bash script is not trivial, and target machines have python, it's probably better to use sh:

https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
I lived this first hand. I grew up in extreme poverty (by the US standards anyways) where my electricity/water were cut off occasionally and occasionally would have to wonder if I was going to eat that night. Though this is still better than most of the world, it sucked. a lot. No christmas, no birthdays. The most interesting part is now im software engineer making really good money, I can still see the rest of my family with the same mindset that enabled that kind of poverty. While I live below my means, they regularly live above it. They lack the self control to regulate their spending, if they get money they spend it like it might go away if they don't. Its institutional in ways because their parents were poor. Although I broke the cycle, my brother didnt and shows a lot of the same patterns. This article hits the point head on. I wonder if there is a way to hack the cycle and reduce the institutional aspect of poverty.
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington and Johannes Haushoffer wrote at length about the behavioral economics of poverty:

http://static.squarespace.com/static/52522308e4b0bcf2bc4dab4...

The whole PDF is in fact dedicated to outlining strategies for the reduction of poverty.

The study quoted in the article about scarcity and cognitive performance by Mani et al can be found here:

http://psych.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/shafir...

I used it as the main document guiding my Msc. thesis research into poverty, cognitive function, and healthy meal choice.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060681
I wonder how much time he spent on these. Incredible dedication!
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This type of stuff is super cool.
Yesterday I started writing a paper for Snake Oil Crypto Competition and today I sent it them. I hope they will accept it!
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I don't know why the poor just don't kill the rich, to be honest. I'm not poor, but if my child was suffering because of abject poverty and lack of healthcare while some asshole was buying a $50000 Birkin bag, I'd probably tear up the person with the bag. Why do the poor not just revolt?
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