skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the process has become more important than actual safety which is supposedly the goal. From the article, it sounds like he used superior lumber and superior building techniques, but was dinged by the inspector for not having the proper 'stamp.'

I've personally seen some really silly things done because code required it and the code was applied blindly without any allowance for human judgment.
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Or a chatroom for HN in general.
Need minor clarification, is it really that an inspector typically wants such a house torn down or is there some paperwork that needs inspector's signature and the inspector refuses to sign it?

If it's the latter then it should be straightforward. Home-owner lives in the house without a certain certificate of approval and when it's time to sell, they can't produce one, hence no one buys that house.

Isn't it more about incomplete paperwork making it difficult to sell, and if the home-owner doesn't plan to sell it, they can get on with their life without worrying about it?

(In this specific case, I'm guessing some personal issues may have occurred between the inspector and the home-owner that led to the inspector getting seriously pissed off and making it their mission to tear down the house?)
I'm using it without data loss incidents for over 1.5 years now. On SSD drive I have encrypted volume. On top of it I have LVM volume. Ot top of it BTRFS partition. I use compress-force=lzo,autodefrag mount options. Works well for personal computer use case. I always follow latest kernel from Debian backports repo. I red that some RAID modes are implemented poorly it BTRFS still.
CyanogenMod Is Now Gone – Six Days Early
Robotics. I know some basic Arduino and would love to build a wheeled thing with a robot arm. Maybe with a camera in streaming. This is super wisful thinking though, if I can make the wheeled thing (with power electronics) I'll be happy.
What exactly does a list of attacks that happened 10-20 years before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 have to do with anything?
Hi Daniel, would you please remove my account and its all comments.
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I have a hard time breaking into the consulting/freelancing world. I really like the idea of working part-time during off hours for extra cash, but it's proven to be quite difficult for me.

I think part of it is that I'm not loud enough, and I think it comes from being an introvert. I'm confident, I'm not shy, and I know I'm skilled enough to work on lots of stuff, but when it comes to marketing myself, networking, small talk with strangers, or anything else like that, I just have the hardest time.

It also doesn't help that a lot of opportunities to meet potential clients are found in non-professional settings, and those events are usually centered around the consumption of alcohol in the presence of loud music. I cannot stand loud music and I don't drink alcohol, so the difficulties for me just seem insurmountable.
I think (but I could be wrong, I'm going off England here) it makes buildings insurance harder, and that's one of the insurances you really need.
Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks the universe might be a simulation
Automated self replication is pretty special. We don't have anything like that yet. All of our tech requires human intervention when it breaks down.
I want to learn to weld, machine, and develop electronics
After reading the entire article, what I still don't get is: why quinoa? Especially as regards this quote from owner David Friedberg:

"We've got to do two things: get healthy products down to a price point that McDonald’s and Taco Bell are winning on, and offer products tasty enough to disrupt the meat-focussed fast-food business ... We think the way to do it is quinoa."

Is quinoa really the best choice for those criteria? This feels more like trying to go a bit more upmarket and tie in to the quinoa hype than really looking for something that can produce McDonald's-level prices and appeal. I mean, the first two things that come to mind when I think of quinoa are "fairly expensive" and "doesn't taste great", so if I were looking for a low-cost-and-tasty staple ingredient, it's not what I'd pick.
i sometimes wonder whether it's worth it. One of my passions is Cs and i enjoy it very much. But It's not the only one and i fear that one day i wake up burned out, wondering how i have wasted my time learning technologies that have become totally useless. If you have a passion for CS, CS will likely consume youre time and dominate your life. I don't want this, i want to learn and have fun, but i think it's comparable to a drug that's fun a first but if you don't watch out dominates your life. Just image if you're in your 50s...does this really matter? Is starting a family a better (but harder!) idea? is work/learning CS really that rewarding? I don't know. I just really hope that i make the right decision and don't waste very valuable time.
No Über/lyft (and airbnb, et al) are doing something different. Regulatory arbitrage - Purposely breaking the law in order to have a structural advantage over competitors.

This guy didn't want others to play by one set of rules while he played by another (advantageous) set.
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You can't, you need to look it up in (IIRC) /boot/System.map
Ask HN: Help me choose a business name?
Hey subreddit.

I am looking at going solo and creating my own creative agency. I would love your advice to help me choose a name as this is what I am struggling with the most.

My company will provide: - Web Development - Graphic design - SEO - Email Marketing - iOS App Development

I am looking for short words, easy to remember and spell and not too fancy or pretentious.

Thank you for your time.
Any resources you are using to learn micro service architecture?
With aircraft, there's various certifications within weight and/or speed categories, but also experimentals, where usually some calculations and an inspector are needed. The inspector is not a bureaucrat, but someone with substance expertise, usually someone who has built aircraft themselves. That said, there are a lot of odd regulations in aircraft in aöl countries...
That's a strawman summary, and destructive to the discussion.

The state argued that bulldozing his house was the right thing to do, more on process than any evidence as it seems his house was structurally superior to standard houses, plus he couldn't afford any other house... Whether he didn't know the regulations, or was performing civil disobedience isn't relevant to whether these regulations are too rigidly enforced.
Maybe I'm just getting better at C, but this was particularly well written and easy to follow.
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Those computer science fundamentals that let you ace all of the big company interviews so I can actually move somewhere else and feel confident in getting a job.
You're not alone there, one of the most difficult things I've read this year.
I found this post educational: https://discord.engineering/how-discord-handles-push-request...
There's a bit in there (paragraph 8) about how he met or exceeded modern building codes, as determined by an independent third party, yet was getting hit for not meeting modern building code.

Whether that's the whole story or not seems to be left to the imagination.
I really can't figure out how the HN code didn't dedupe this.

Stunningly impressive job by whichever PR agency placed the story (and fascinating to read as well).
Same goes for sheep and goats. I think it's an important factor in land use calculation that's often ignored.
Material properties and manufacturing. I'd like to learn more about heat transfer and heatsink design as well.
I agree. Reading YDKJS book helped. The trick is to realise "this" is like another argument to the function.

It varies by context, and will be set to the created object if new is used, set to global otherwise. You can also use the call function I think to set to something specific.

Anyway none of it really makes any deep sense to me, just a load of arbitrary features and traps.

FP like Haskell have a deep structure based in theory and maths, so although harder to make sense of initially, one you get it you don't forget it.
> Or maybe they need warriors, since their race has already collectively modified itself to delete wasteful things like aggressiveness and anger.

Highly doubtful. Any trait that's collectively exhibited was adaptive and such a spefies would value it to some extent, so they wouldn't breed it out entirely. If some new sub-species found a better way and outcompeted those with this trait, then they are already better adapted by definition, and so wouldn't need this trait.
Playing music. It's still kinda shit for that because search / discovery is so awkward but it's the only thing I use it for.
Solo Creative?
I hate memes too, but give this article a go. It's pretty good.
Correct, unless you have a very specific VM configuration where you are truly dedicating a CPU/core to a VM, it's not fit for being an NTP server.
Assume the sender has an antenna at least as good as Arecibo. That antenna has a beam width of 4 minutes of arc.[1] That's 0.066 degrees, or about one ten millionth of the sky. So you get to divide the power requirements by 10^7.

[1] http://egg.astro.cornell.edu/alfalfa/ugrad/backgrnd/intro2ar...
Selling houses is a very formalized process, this should be easy to enforce. First of all, there is a deed of sale that gets signed over, the unsuitability for resale could be listed on the deed. Remember selling a house usually is a super involved process that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.

It almost sounds to me like you don't WANT to find a better solution.
No comments, only very few upvotes, then the dupe detector only blocks for a short time AFAIK.
It always saddens me when the people with all these amazing memories and stories die. It seems such a shame. It's like when my parents died and all those memories of my childhood were gone. My mother (like all mothers) would bring-out memories like "Oh, I remember when you were 4, and this and this happened" and I could almost picture the scene. And all those memories and stories died when she did.

Maybe we will eventually have the ability to capture and store all memories. But not now unfortunately.
I agree -- it's almost as clumsy to pronounce as cyanogenmod, and the meaning isn't particular inspiring or evocative. HeritageOS? AncestryOS? FamilyOS? DerivationOS? Why do I want to use it, now?
I want to learn:

1. Whether I can climb V11.

2. Rust well enough so it doesn't feel like a wrestling match any more.

3. How to do a handstand.
> And ends with people burning to death in slums:

Mostly these "cheap" slums were built with regulations, but with a short amount of money.
Actually mostly they became slums because the owner does not care and the regulators never look at those since the owners has dozen of houses and it would be problematic to look at it every x years.
so the houses getting worse over time and nobody actually keeps them in a good state and than bad things happen.

Actually this is a BIG problem in our modern world. some people actually need _cheap_ homes (not everybody makes a six figures a year). And thats why the problem begins, socialized buildings never happen. Mostly they build a chunk of good homes for people with a lot of money and the old ones never get repair/refreshed, but thats the only ones people with fewer money can have.
4. Exposing corruption - and making it more transparent - in South Africa by ruling government using public accounts and news data sources. They are robbing that beautiful country to the ground.
Baird is still alive? Wow.
3D modeling and animation. I know this is a field that takes years to master but I'd love to be able to design my own characters and objects for games and video composites.
Like fossil fuels, fossil water is not a self-renewing, i.e. sustainable resource. When it's used up, we're back where we started. Also, it seems this stuff isn't really convenient to come by.

Granted, though, if 100 centuries' worth of water is really extractable, this may be pushing the problem so far into the future that we can buy a lot of timer for better solutions.
This. Aside from a hackathon or two, I have "completed" exactly one side project since graduating in 2013. There were numerous times I started projects and quickly gave them up, and it was simply because my goal was to have a side project, which is not really a goal at all.

This year, my girlfriend and I were using Google Sheets to track our expenses and compete to see who could spend less money. We eventually decided it'd be a way better experience if we had a dedicated app for it, so I worked relentlessly to build one and polish it up until I was pretty proud of it. I "released" it to a couple of online communities where I thought people might be interested, and I gained exactly 1 active user who I don't know in real life.

It's all good, though, because my girlfriend and I use it every day, so that's all that matters to me :D

But yeah, it can be difficult to "scratch an itch" if you feel that nothing needs scratching. If that's the case, I wouldn't really worry about it. If you don't need to build anything, then don't spend time building anything. It's nothing to feel bad about.
Those things don't have to be tied together like that, you know.
A recommendation for monads. Don't read too much tutorials, try it. Programm in some languages that emphasises monads and then reflect how you used them. I think these fundamental concepts are way easier to experience than to explain.

Edit: what are toposes and why do you want to learn it? Has it some connection to topology?
Also: Nothing I've stated has any pop-psych/pop-social tripe requirements.

That's just you skimming my comment and launching a knee-jerk reply. Belittle something else, please.
You build your house in an area that is not governed by a building code. No permits, no inspections, do your own thing at your own risk. This generally means a rural area.
I think this discussion is way too black & white. I for one don't think all building codes are bad, but it's trivial to imagine a case of too many building codes. Now the question is, what are all the codes out there, and how much sense do they make? Is there a process of exceptions? What are the costs involved?

Because, based on the article, it sounds like absolutely no common sense is used for exceptions.
To be fair, that's usually a safe presumption; any plan that ignores the stupidity of humans is doomed to failure.
Upvoted because I think this is so spot on. Technically any language that lets you pass functions and capture variables is functional, but you ain't going to learn the beauty of FP from JS.
Surely just a legacy law?
My wife died from cancer in November. We were married over twenty years. Life became despair. I can hardly remember 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Photos serve only to realize the delta you don't realize week to week. What a cruel, cruel disease.
That's the point. You can't aquihire Linux.

You can aquihire Linus, you can take his team, but any code you develop "in house" is going to have to go public anyways (because no one owns enough of the code).
The thing is, a lot of things are done without upholding those building codes anyways. They often burden the common sense person, like the article subject, while people just trying to cheat the system will still do so.
I'm sorry for what you're going through. I appreciate your penultimate paragraph - enjoy life. Treasure your wife and your time with her. Enjoy your life and create memories and know if you lose her - you'll have those memories you created together.
Paul is spot on below re: communications overhead. When you distill what it is we programmers actually do, only a small fraction of it is programming itself. The real value is in helping you distill your idea into something that the marketplace will embrace. Being able to execute an application in XYZ language or ABC framework is important, but not nearly as valuable as understanding what and why you're building the thing in the first place.

Because of this, I'd recommend vetting your candidates based on their ability to take your idea and produce an actionable plan. Some things to keep in mind:

- Are they actively and constructively criticizing your idea in the pursuit of understanding how they can add value, or are they constantly nodding "yes"?

- When you ask them to provide a proposal, does it give you confidence they understand what you want to build? Or is it vague and open to interpretation?

- And perhaps most importantly: Do you think you'll enjoy working with the person? You'll be communicating with them constantly for the duration of the project.

I _love_ talking about this stuff and would be happy to talk more about finding your great match. Email me: tj@guilded.co
How tall do you think it is, exactly?
This is a fair point. In honesty I think the intention behind building codes is to prevent builders from building buildings that endanger others (e.g., fire hazard) or selling buildings where the buyer is not aware of the risks. The former I think we can all agree is necessary and fairly straightforward. I think the latter is more complicated. Perhaps people can't effectively judge the risk they take on by living in a potentially less safe environment and so are not willing to pay for improvements that would improve their utility?
Yeah that's what I was thinking; e.g. in Haskell you can use existential types to refer to "some type which implements this type class", and then an object of that type will have the functions in that type class available to it and no others (more or less). Cool that rust has this as well, I'm excited to learn about it.
But even if Apple may be better than most android manufacturers, Apple still doesn't support devices it considers "Obsolete"...and there is nothing you can do about it other than buy a new phone since the bootloader is locked down. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices anything before iPhone 5 is considered "Oboslete" and they don't seem to be releasing updates. On the other hand, I've been happily using my Samsung S3 which cyanogenmod has been pushing latest android updates to nightly...and that is likely to continue as long as there are enough of us who care, even if cyanogen and samsung goes away.
Sure, however they will always be in the right place if you fix them to the wall.

If they are on the floor they could easily be moved or be a tripping Hazard.
Programming Throwdown. It's light weight and perfect for my commute. Only problem is they don't make frequently enough.
The "cute" Questy story line is really annoying. I'm not a five year old.
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Also, will I have to re-reclean flash LineageOS over CM?
Desalinization is a poor solution for irrigation.

In Israel, desal water is not used (read: wasted) on irrigation. That does not make any economic sense.

We use purified wastewater (output of sewer systems) for that. About 85% of wastewater is reused.
It should be enough to have an approval that the house is structurally sound, has good fire safety etc.

If you don't have that, obviously the building can be neither sold nor insured.

I agree it should be optional to just live in an uninsured and unsellable shed if you want. The buyer or insurance company can make the inspection, should they want to.

That said, possible problems include: should you be allowed to raise kids in a house that might collapse (while you can't legally drive those same kids in your car without seat belts, for comparison)?

Should a publicly funded fire department put out the recurring fires in your house due to your homebuilt fireplace and diy electric wiring?

There are also accessibility standards - I'm not allowed to build a house that isn't accessible (e.g I can't only have bathrooms accessible by stairs, and one ground floor bathroom door must fit a wheelchair etc). The reason being that the prices on houses that are accessible might otherwise be higher because of limited supply.
Sending to a closed channel is fatal, as is closing it. There's no way for multiple senders sending to a channel to tell if somebody closed it without risk of crashing.

Graceful shutdown of systems with lots of asynchronous communication is hard, but this makes it harder than it has to be.
> The fact that Cuba managed to reach the standard of living that it did while almost completely disconnected from the world economy is remarkable

How would you describe Cuba's current "standard of living?" You imply the country has a high standard of living but first-hand experience suggests otherwise.
Pretty soon we'll reinvent X Windows.
I can think of a lot of reasons it'd be unsafe to place fire extinguishers on the floor. Floods could corrode the casing, children could reach the trigger components of a device that emits a suffocating chemical foam, etc.

It's often easy to suggest the number of regulations are unnecessary, but most came from some sort of logic or reason... In many cases in response to a tragedy that occurred before.
Not a full course (apologies in advance) but I have heard a lot of people get a good introduction from:

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

It was written with Turbo Pascal in mind but many have read the text and transcribed the instructions to a language of their choosing. Should be at least a good introduction to compilers.
If the inspector only understands some official stamps but nothing about the substance of building, you will get this. I suspect they thought its cheaper to hire / train people to follow simple rules (there must be a sticker) as opposed to estimating if the building actually is safe.

It's related to cargo culting. People who do not understand anything of the domain or substance end up making decisions. By default, we are in a constant slide toward the dark ages. We need renewal and self questioning to prevent that.
Ditto. My grandfather is 99 and can tell some nice stories about hitchiking from FL to CA in the 30's to work as aerospace machinist. Strange to think he was older than myself, now, during the Apollo landing.
Parking cars are not as big issues however as moving cars. Moving cars take more space, cause traffic, make noises.
> "As mankind has become more advanced, he has grown from being tribalistic and violent to understanding that fear itself is more dangerous than actual external threats"

Not to mention it's totally debatable that we are any less violent than we used to be, which seems to be the core premise of this 'friendly alien' argument.
Yeah, not having protocol is the problem. Now, you can also create links without the protocol part up to the colon, and the browser will autocomplete based on if you're visiting the website with or without SSL (HTTPS).

Here's a nice example (with a more complete explanation): http://jsbin.com/cexaqoviso/edit?html,output
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs#RAID: "Parity RAID (RAID 5/6) code has multiple serious data-loss bugs in it.".

AFAIK, that was true back in July. It likely still is.

I have no opinion on whether using it without it is safe, but I would definitely avoid RAID.
This can happen with any standardized process. Some analogous processes that HN can empathize with include "agile", TDD, hiring processes, etc. Standardization inherently removes some judgement and subjectivity, and can have both positive and negative trade-offs. IMO the best we can do is find the right balance, because neither extreme is palatable to me.
I think we need more regulations, laws, and building codes. Not!

Over here in the states, the Amish fight regulations all the time. The only way they win is religious freedom. And the fact that they have been building houses a certain way for 100 years.