skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just the tagging/graff isn't illegal if he's okay with it.

Certainly there is drug use, public sex, etc., occurring in this large parcel of empty space in an urban area, much like literally any park.

I think that sort of phrase is the standard rejoiner when a reporter asks you about the possibility of illegal activity on a property that you own. It doesn't really imply much.
Try driving your ICE car without a permit and the government will come down on you.
He did go and call it an experiment in sustainable living, implying the intent was for it to be a dwelling. I don't think it's unreasonable for some permit requisites to apply to it, like being a rust hazard or a danger to neighbors during an earthquake.
Everyone has _that_ person, but a lot more people share a couple posts per week, or some similar lower volume but nonetheless obnoxious posts.
Ben Krasnow has an awesome project using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rather than Transcranial direct-current stimulation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUW7dQ92yDU (part1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_olmdAQx5s (part2)
> Suddenly you aren’t just thinking about what’s happening inside the picture; you’re thinking about the system it represents and your response to it.

This is what true art is about.

His use of "unfamiliarity" as a tool to evoke a shift in your point of view is actually a classic artistic device called "Defamiliarization"[1]. That is:
The artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar.

Or as Viktor Shklovsky put it first:
The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.

On step further it can be described with the "Wundt" or "Hedonic curve"[2] that basically says, the most interesting experiences are those that are similar-yet-different to those that have been experienced previously.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization
[2]: http://natcomp.liacs.nl/images/wundt.jpg
When writing compilers/interpreters, even good ol' "hello world" does it for me at some point(s...) in the development cycle :)
Depends how big the lot is and where precisely it is.
...few outside the US have inch-sized tools.

An interesting frustration I've found in working with an immigrant friend: even though most of the fasteners we're turning are "imperial", he simply can't use imperial wrenches, because they require a familiarity with fractions. I'm fine with moving from half-inch to nine-sixteenths when the wrench is a bit too tight to fit, and frankly at this point I can usually tell the difference by eye before even opening the toolbox. OTOH my friend just goes from 13mm to 14mm to 15mm, ruining nuts and bolt-heads in the process.

Since tools should work for people rather than the other way around, one must conclude that metric-sized fasteners are superior to imperial-sized ones. It does seem odd that imperial fasteners were never sized by e.g. the twentieth of an inch, since that would have solved this problem completely.
I watched about half of the first lecture, very interesting. What insights can one draw from these series of lectures? Depending on the insights, I'm trying to see if the time invested is personally worthwhile.
The US government commits terrorist attacks on a regular basis. I may not convince all of you about the air strike in Syria the other day, or the hospital that was intentionally hit a few months back, but can any of you deny that the Shock and Awe bombing campaign at the outset of the Iraq war was terrorism? Shock and Awe was the "use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight". The stated purpose was to terrify the civilian population. The Oxford Research Group estimated that there were 6,616 civilian deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe
I'll put a parabolic reflector on my property to focus sunlight into a single point on your house, setting it on fire. It's my property so I do what I want.

Libertarian nonsense falls apart so quickly.
They're smart people who have good ideas but they also have failings like all of us.

You were the one that claimed they couldn't be bothered to give a damn about anyone. That flood, while a tragedy and something that should probably have been prosecuted for criminal negligence, doesn't really prove your point. It's not like they benefited from its destruction.
Bought my parcel of land next to a large city's medical district as an investment. Might eventually build on it - tbd.

Most of the tax delinquent pieces of property that I've come across that go to auction are sometimes 5-10+ years delinquent & in "blighted" neighborhoods. The patience and laws of cities and states varies in how fast they take action on foreclosing on delinquent taxes.

From my basic research, a sizable number of properties fall behind on taxes due to the death of an owner and an out of state heir essentially "giving up" on the property as it wasn't worth the trouble.

In the case of my property - the city acquired it via a tax foreclosure, used it as an access point for some infrastructure construction, let it sit for 10+ years after they were done with it then lumped it in with an auction.

On another note - Some cities will also sell land with requirements that low income / affordable housing be build on it.
Don't pay your rent, forget your kids, live in a fuggin dream world... "it's that simple".

Come on bro. Unless you are in some rare Netherlands / Amazonian fair trade, employee owned, tech company who pays in angel farts, you live in a capitalistic economy.

YOU determine your own credo, your own ethics, your own constitution. Live it inside the Corp. Make that money and be a good person.

And while your at it, look up the etymology of "corporation". It's absurd to think man could "give life to a corpse in order to make money" after running that mandate through everyone's "ethics filter" first.

Ethics and values are driven by the humans not the Corp.
Why, indeed. My impression is that you are European. Do you care which system(s) we use, and if so, why?
Keeps redirecting to S3 APIs for me. Is that intended?

One thing people should know about AWS and AWS APIs in general is that it is a ghetto. The ad-hoc nature of most AWS services and their weird interactions is indicative of generally bad design. Even with the AWS Ruby SDK I can barely get anything done without consulting 5 different references about which parameters are required, which are optional, and what the sequence of various calls is supposed to be to get an intended result.

So even though this is useful a cookbook would have been much more useful.
I wonder if this would be useful for gum disease? My reading seems to suggest it's more the inflammatory response to the bacteria that causes gum problems rather tha themselves.
I'm not being a smartaleck, but "you shouldn't be writing code" with your attitude/approach. "NEVER trust user input" is an important security mantra to learn all on its own, like "wipe your butt/wash your hands" is in another context.

The guy is writing a valid point on Hacker(!) News. People writing comments on HN (especially to summarize a takeaway from a longer form article) are not required to accurately recapitulate entire dossiers of how to process input. It is completely valid to say "you should never trust user input". Somebody who is looking to make that "actionable" or "clear and pretty useful" can very very easily google the phrase and will turn up a lot of useful answers and information.

This is what is meant by the idea that the simplicity of the iPhone UI and/or automated IDEs has created a generation of helplessness and entitlement.

The good advice remains good advice: you should never trust user input. If you can't turn that into sound advice from Hacker News, your options become limited to, nobody should trust the code you write, you shouldn't write code, or you shouldn't read hacker news for advice.

But the idea that people need to write what you personally need to hear or they shouldn't write comments? that's nuts. Could I have written a more useful comment to you and to the community? I'll tell you this, I did think about it, and this my best shot at what I thought you and the community could benefit from!

There used to be a guy on usenet news who posted all sorts of stuff, and had the name of his company in his .sig line, and he included the phrase "these ARE the opinions of my company" instead of that boring old boilerplate "none of the opinions I express are..."
To my knowledge there is absolutely no law on the books preventing someone from driving any automotive vehicle on private property in the united states.

This was told to me by a US police officer who came in to talk to us about getting ready to drive. He said going to the mall or a football stadium on a Sunday is the perfect way to get practice. It just needed to be private property.

Edit: To clarify this happened a few years ago when I was still in high school.
The theory is the equations. Take the Schrödinger equation. It is often misunderstood in discussions of time-symmetry and determinism. The Schrödinger equation describes the evolution of a wavefunction, deterministically, and symmetrically in time. The equations are "indeterministic" in another sense, that of Heisenberg: can't know position and momentum with infinite accuracy. But that's a subtly different point.

The result of a measurement is not dealt with by the equation. Schrödinger only lets you calculate the probabilities of measurement outcomes, but not which one it will be. That's why Einstein proposed we just didn't knew the whole picture. He thought we needed more information.
Pretty much. Note the line at the beginning: "clients who would never dream of spilling their guts to a therapist or worse, their families." This is in some ways an end-run around the stigma attached to psychological treatment in Japan (and most other countries).
This particular container is attracting vandalism where it sits, arguably a quality-of-life issue extending beyond the property line. Dunno about the general case. This particular case here gives no reason to argue that permits in general are a case of government overreach.
> An example should make this clear: If you liked The Godfather, it's an easy prediction that you'll like The Godfather: Part II and Part III.

Really? I've always heard such negative things about Part III that I never bothered to watch it.
I know a friend of mine used category theory heavily in his Ph.D. thesis which was related to GIS and optimization. I keep meaning to learn more category theory so I can have a chance of understanding his thesis.
Yep, gum recession, is mostly caused by repeated inflammation, and not direct action of the bacteria, while dental carries are generally a result of the metabolic byproducts leaching the enamel.

Buuuuut... the production of plaque and tartar is damaging too, so just shutting down part of the immune response (inflammation), might not be a good thing in that case.
Worse, when I worked on OpenStack's EC2 compatibility API.. I found about 3 examples where AWS were not following their own published API parameters... and I had to choose to follow either their published spec, or what they were actually doing.
Makes the guy sound like a grade-A douchebag but then again this is pretty bad gossip rag reporting. Maybe he's pulling a Shia LaBeouf and doing some avant-garde thing?
Thanks for all the testing and feedback. I'm just as baffled by the high frequency noise in your mic -- I've never seen anything like that, but I don't have a ton of extensive tests. Given the even spacing of it, some of it looks to be harmonics?

Overall, I'm not really sure how much faith I'd place in noise reduction here. I feel that in general, applying another non-linear process to the signal may just make matters worse. It's hard for me to say since all of the noise I've encountered has been low-frequency ambient/fan noise, which can be easily avoided by just shifting the signal further up. At any rate, the process of cancelling noise for human speech versus modulated tones would look completely different. The hardest obstacles to overcome so far have been non-linear blocks in the receiver, which cause much more distortion than tinny speakers or a mediocre mic.
The fitness app [Human](http://human.co/) sits in the background and provide a map of where the user has moved throughout the day, and a timeline of when they moved (for example, that there was a walk from 10-10:30 AM, a jog from 2-:2:14, etc). When apps like this are backgrounded, the iOS permission dialog asks if the user wants to allow the app to continue using their location in the background.

I have no idea what APIs they use, so I'm not sure how hard it is to get this information, but it is at least possible.
But will it?

In the UK 2x4, 2x2 etc is still commonly available, but it's 50x100mm. Probably has been for 30 years but only sold as 50x100 for ten or less. Metricating timber was easy because no one's going to notice or care if they get 25mm instead of each inch.

Metals, fastenings, pipes etc converted much slower because metric was often incompatible sizes without adapters.

> Which actually measures 1-1/2" by 3-1/2",

Isn't that because it's 2x4 before planing. cut lumber would be actually 2x4.
Well it wouldn't be as much of an eye sore, and he would probably still need permits.

http://dpw.lacounty.gov/general/faq/index.cfm?9185=9185&Acti...
Fibonacci approach can still be used for pretty much any number.

37 = 3 + 13 + 21

Find equivalents in series

3->5, 13->21, 21->34

Add up: 5+21+34 = 60
I'm more or less lifelong teetotal, but about 4 years ago, I started considering light drinking based off of widely popular reports of health benefits of the occasional glass of wine and some all-cause mortality reduction studies.

Given that I wasn't sure how well the media had reported these and if I was either motivated enough of or enough of a scientist to evaluate research directly, I decided to ask doctors if I should do this. In short, to provide me with curial end-user friendly information.

So I've pretty much asked most MD I've seen since, five total. The responses fell into two categories:

* "Eh, if you already drink, it's probably OK, but for heavens sake, of all the new things to take up for health benefits, one could do so much better. Get your exercise, diet, dental health, stress levels, and sleep quality dialed in, then maybe statins, then maybe a glass of wine for health."

* "We never advise people to start. There are too many risks. If you enjoy alcohol, be responsible and moderate, but it the opposite of an asset to your health."

Of course, doctors aren't perfect, I have a limited sample of them, and I may not be summarizing their response correctly. It's probably best for most people to ask doctors directly along with conducting what review of medical literature they can if they're up to it.
I built a dual axis laser pointer setup to play with my cat but she looks at the servo's too often because they're so noisy. I was wondering if I could use memory wire to control the laser pointer since it would be quieter.

Now I'm wondering if these stepper motors might be a better alternative, maybe a third one against some sort of a spring loaded harness.

Either way very cool, would be interesting to see if a third motor might have helped rather than relying on gravity and good behavior of the chalk pen.
Easy: Superhuman sex robot. Call it Frank Furter. It would be a doctor, of course.
In china, they use a unit (the 斤 jin) that is equal to 500g. (Now. Historically it would have been something close.)

I got a shocked reaction "you look much smaller!" from someone when I just reported my weight in pounds as weight in 斤. I guess the lesson is it's not "close enough" when people are already sensitive to a particular scale.
Pokemon GO blamed for illegal border crossing from Canada to U.S
If I remember the movie Tin Cup correctly, anyone can qualify for the US Open. Win that and you'd probably be on an easy path to a professional golf career.
New Life for Old Power Tech
The Fight Over Consumer Encryption Is Moving into a Strange New Phase
No, because that would cause damage to others' property, which isn't allowed in propertarianist theories.
There should be a way for these DIY-ers to share what they're doing with each other and the scientific and medical community. An application that can provide a network of support and communication would be beneficial to these neuro-adventurers (current mental and emotional state, motivations, treatment plans, etc). Self-medication is not a bad idea, but it can require proper guidance and information to be truly effective.
Unfortunately, if medical professionals cooperate with them, it likely violates ethical codes, and perhaps the law as well.

The closest I think they can get, is to provide normal medical treatment for the complications which arise.
Reading it may be easy, but every time I've tried to use make (i.e. write a Makefile that does what I want) I've found it to be composed almost entirely of rough corners.
well, winning the world series of poker is the way to make a lot at poker, otherwise you aren't make a lot at poker. And etc. for a lot of other endeavors.

The fun of the question is to engage in the speculation. The question didn't identify how much it was necessary to earn, and all the people saying "gambling" aren't saying how much is being talked about, etc.

Even if you are a "lucky phenom kid" in baseball, you aren't all that famous till you establish a bit of a track record; plenty of journeymen players remain completely unkown, and our people-smart robot could calibrate his goodness (he's not even stronger than a human, he just has fast reaction times)

I'm not trying to weasel out of your point, it's a good point, I'm trying to weasel into this thing being an interesting question, and find some parameters that would find an interesting answer.

I'm still looking for the answer to, what does our economy recognize quickly and reward greatly, and how quick are we talking, and how greatly are we suggesting, and ok, how obscure can you remain?

I think "super smart high end real estate broker" is lucrative and not that "famousy", and perhaps within the easy win range of this robot, but it's deathly dull so what would actually be a good, robust, and fun answer?
And why are they claiming C doesn't have type-safe enums?
This is WRONG. Morally wrong.
Tms especially has been looked into heavily by researchers as well as the military over the last 20 years. The results have been remarkable both as treatment but also as a concentration/ skill and learning booster with effects being maintained long after treatment. I believe NPR did a segment on this recently as well.

It's ironic to think that given everything we think we know about how the brain functions , such a gross and simple procedure as wiring a battery to your head or inducing a magnetic field would have such strong and even beneficial effects.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=transcranial+magnetic+s...
Go into business for yourself.

Truth be told, no matter what the circumstances are that is the correct answer.
> I'll put a parabolic reflector on my property to focus sunlight into a single point on your house, setting it on fire

The difference is that Robert Rhinehart isn't setting fire to people or directly harming them.

The difference is that you are trying to directly cause serious bodily harm. This is the worst analogy possible.

The right analogy would be do I have the right to say "he has a parabolic reflector on his property that could start a fire. He needs to remove it."

To me, that is unreasonable.

> Libertarian nonsense falls apart so quickly

Only under the scrutiny of logic with more holes then Swiss cheese. If you'd like to debate libertarian policies then I'm all ears. My email is in my profile.
> Sure, but there's no objective observation that can prove God does or does not exist. If He is omniscient and omnipotent, He cannot be a dependent variable in any experiment.

If she's omniscient, then free will doesn't exist. If she's omnipotent, then she can create a rock so heavy she can't lift it… but probably can lift it.

I also notice that you didn't mention omnibenevolent.

> Any self-professed Christian who deviates from the teachings of the Bible either intentionally or out of disinterest is doing this to some degree.

Really? Any Christian who works on Sunday is "reasonably start[ing] from first principles [and] discover[ing] whether there is a Creator"?

I agree with you: we don't use the same definition of "rational".
Rust hazard?
Unfortunate, I can see that this can make medical insurance companies quite worried too (asymmetric information about personal riskiness).
Go to Vegas, then hire Saul Goodman to handle the rest.
> They cited him for "abandoned or vacant building open to the public" which is complete BS.

Maybe it's intentionally BS, and the city expects him to win. Then the city can say, "well a jury found him not guilty" and shut up the annoying neighbors without looking like they are ignoring the problem.
That's great! Thanks for detailing what went wrong, as well as what went right.

I've wanted to do a drawbot (paper and pen) for a while, and thought these pulleys[1] and belts[2] might be good.

1: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1251
2: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1184
Perhaps, it could just become very good at manipulating the perceptions of the reactive humans who are participating in the market? Create false crisis... Or real ones.
And that's why it's a maybe. If it's sitting there because you're moving or turning it into a tiny house, that's one thing. If it's abandoned and has become a den of heroin addicts and meth cooks, or full of trash then that's another.
Wonderful example of a strawman attack if I've ever seen one.

Ignoring the obvious property rights issues and the fact that the majority of libertarians still support the existence of limited government interference, even the most hardcore anarcho-capitalists who aren't covered by the above still believe in a non-aggression principle which would clearly be violated. But that is small percentage of an already small group.
>The inexistence of God is an article of faith as well. It's typically faith in the truth of the physicalist position

Is it? I really hope you're merely lying in order to socially signal religiousness, because the general form of this argument allows that technically, you don't know that this SMBC is false [0]. I believe that densely-packed Hitlers exist all around you. The inexistence of the densely packed Hitlers crowding just outside the cone of your vision is an article of faith. It's typically faith in the truth of a universe whose boundary conditions are subject to Popperian falsifiability.

[0] http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3307