skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we're just quibbling here...

> You can argue that some ongoing tragedy of the commons also has externalities.

sure, two of the preceding opinions [wikipedia, mit], argue that the tragedy of the commons is a specific type of negative externality, rather than the other way around. one [north carolina] gravitates more towards your interpretation.

the fundamental issue remains though: our conception of time and consequence is woefully limited in scope.
I wonder if anyone still has some automated wire wrap equipment that could be programmed to do this kind of thing.
Common Linux monitoring tools... lie to us
Very good question. I am interested in reading the suggestions as well. Also, a specific book question: is Engineering a Compiler by Cooper & Torczon any good?
Since they have the key for their own certificate, they can man in the middle forward secret connections too (these days, ECDHE). By supporting only non-PFS RSA key exchange with TLS 1.2, they had the ability to retroactively decrypt traffic without doing full man in the middle. Maybe they mirror a port on a switch and run an IDS/antivirus that decrypts the traffic and analyzes it. Maybe they log all traffic for a while and want to decrypt it only if needed.

In any way, the solution someone came up with was to do Diffie Hellman but reuse the ephemeral key (make it static) and share it with the decryption box. This turns (EC)DHE into not forward secure key exchange. The client can notice this happens because the server will reuse the DH key. I didn't hear about any browser planning to warn the user about this. The ssllabs tester will complain.
Heh, whaddya know. I thought the dupe timeout was weeks or months but apparently it's <2 days. I wonder what the actual value is.
http://planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002w557/episodes/downloads

http://embedded.fm/
Spanish.

But more generally, how to get into a routine for learning something. I have Duolingo and Memrise but I forget to open them every day.
Did you happen to read the article _and_ have basic knowledge of spec at the same time?
glad I'm not the only one ;)
Cut Your Internet Research Time in Half
as has been discussed elsewhere, the ability to avoid using google services is a serious disincentive for google to support cyanogenmod.
Here's an HN comment from last week that included links to a compilers course (a course from HN user jpolitz, who posted the comment).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207695

Here are the links:

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~jpolitz/cs75/s16/index.html

https://github.com/compilers-course-materials/

https://github.com/compilers-course-materials/cs75-s16-lectu...
Best use: not using it at all.
This is great! I've read up on "chasing the beam" and how programming for the 2600 is unlike any other console. Always wanted to try my hand at it but didn't want to go through all the steps. This essentially eliminates the barrier to entry. Definitely will check it out. Thanks!
It's true. I don't think it's a good idea to have a class of houses that conforms with code and another that doesn't.
set a timer

ask weather

ask for hours of a local business

play music from Amazon Prime library (asking by album name or playlist name usually works)

playing audible audio books (my son can control this without any other device which is cool)

telling knock knock jokes and other kids entertainment
How to find last argument in a bash script
Not sure if this was the issue, but some grades of stainless steel screws can't be used with treated lumber because of an increased corrosion risk. The rule might have been in to simplify inspections.
Creancy = Creative agency

I don't know, just an idea.

What name did you think?
I guess it depends on your definition of "relatively inexpensive" :)

I've only got residential experience in two states, but from what I'm aware of, there are certainly cheaper routes you can go. Especially with high quality prefab options becoming more common.

From scratch though, towns typically expect a professional architect to sign off on a design, and a licensed electrician to do the wiring, and a licensed plumber to do the plumbing, and on and on. I'm officially none of those things, even though I got myself through college working construction, and I know how to use CAD packages for statics analysis, my degree is in electrical engineering, water flows down hill, and on and on. The DIY option is for all intents and purposes off the table, is what I was lamenting.
I'm emulating Belkin WeMo instead for my lights with a raspberry pi. No Amazon dev account required and it has native support.

https://github.com/n8henrie/fauxmo

(Not my project.)

The one thing I've learned about smart home is if you come up with a cool idea of how to do it DIY, someone's done it similarly and better. Wrote my own code for everything and ended up ditching it all for HomeAssistant.
I don't buy it. Sinterklaas, the primary source for santa claus, has been historically been depicted in red: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas#History

Further red and green are the traditional colours of the christmas tree: Green of the tree and red of the christmas balls that used to be apples.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254342
The struggle is real and I have been in the same position... Procrastinating and just being lazy or dropping online courses in the middle... I just found out about a site liveyourlegend.com and I will try to use the tools they provide to find out about my true passion... I knew that I wanted to be a computer engineer since I was 15... But now I feel very behind in matter of experience and knowledge... Maybe it has to do something with these feelings also it could be a good time to do some internal work and try to know ourselves more....
It's a pain pretty much everywhere. Before you buy land, and build look into zoning, and exactly what year building codes the county is using.

Their are some federal lands that don't require any building codes.

I'm a contractor, and scared of building inspectors. If I get an attitude, I pull out the camera, and start rolling. They become very nice all of a sudden?

They can make a builder's life misserable over minor details. I knew a homeowner who was red tagged because he didn't put little stickers on a dedicated plug. The plug was obviously dedicated, but the Inspector wanted the 2 X 6 mm sticker on the receptacle behind the wall on the receptacle. My father was failed because his electrical panel had 29 3/4", instead of 30". He literally followed the building Inspecter to his car, and jumped up and down on his hood. This was the 80's in downtown San Francisco. Ironically, he grew up with the Inspector. Even as a kid, I couldn't stand this Inspector. I just remember his family's roped off living room. Yes, you Henry. You were a candy arse. No one liked you. That job went straight to you head, like a new college graduate who was just offered a Management position.

I understand building codes, but they are overkill for residential building. I honestly think a lot of, especially small towns, enact the latest codes just to collect permit fees, and fines. Bigger cities are sometimes better. They don't necessarily have the latest codes because of the amount of my different stage projects.

If you buy a piece of land, don't just assume you will get a variance for anything. In my town of San Anselmo, they will happily take you variance application with a check of over $1000.

And, to my knowledge, spend they one minute on a discussion; and deny the variance.

I have see homeowner builders over build a residence, and because it didn't look familiar to the Building inspector, was red tagged over what I consider design/aesthetic reasons.
What exactly are you arguing for? Closures can be implemented using closure conversion as a derived form in most languages. That's how you compile the code in the first place...

The point is that you reason about closures as ordinary functions with local assumptions. You don't need to know how they are implemented at all. On the other hand, in Rust you need to be aware of the implementation in order to use higher-order functions effectively.
> GPL is the route that OmniROM tried to go down

You write in past tense; what happened?
This is not a course, but a practical tutorial that will teach you the "nuts and bolts" and get something pretty cool (a JIT compiled REPL) working easily:

http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

These are examples in C++ and OCaml.

There's a similar tutorial in Python as well, which should be easier to get running:

http://www.llvmpy.org/llvmpy-doc/0.9/doc/kaleidoscope/Python...
Read more closely - it's a colleague of JLB. Baird himself died in 1946.
James Kyle (who created Babel) wrote a 'Super Tiny Compiler' that's a really great (low barrier to entry) place to start.

The inline docs are super well written, clear and extensive. It's also implemented in JabaScript.

It's an amazing learning tool and I really loved reading it!

https://github.com/thejameskyle/the-super-tiny-compiler
Ex-Wham singer George Michael dies – 2016 strikes again
It definitely works! I haven't tried muting explicitly, but I've been able to control play/pause and volume well. This past weekend I tested out the development of actions on Google and the development of skills is more or less similar. The documentation still needs some work but overall the experience was fairly straightforward.
Only if enough people understand the reasons for doing so.

And if we don't, the change will be forced upon us and at higher cost with more disruption and risk.

But that's true of most of the problems we fail to understand/choose to ignore.
I was actually researching this with respect to the tiny house movement. They are out there. Definitely all rural, which can make it tough when you depend on fast internet to make a living.
Some links for you:

* https://cyngn.com/blog/the-future-of-cyanogen-and-the-untapp...

* https://www.xda-developers.com/the-death-of-cyangenmod-and-w...
True, but an increased number of pins is slower on the plotter and making the scaffolding is also harder. Plus it is easier to rewrap the loom better than to make a finer loom.

I suspect that a forward-look of 2 or 3 will give a noticeably better result, particularly if you combine it with the length-normalised score like was suggested by another commenter. Using a Dykstra algorithm and taking the first path that reaches length N should also keep the branching reasonable.

If you haven't seen it, there was something similar (algorithmically) for the FaceBull problem, which should still be kicking around online somewhere.
So I don't mean to be snarky, but what it's useful for is apparently exactly the same things every other device like this has always been useful for, nothing more. What you said is 100% identical to what someone with a Chumby would have said in 2007.

This just kind of fuels. Y skepticism about this kind of product. It's looking for a problem to solve.
Hi Daniel. Rather than just shadow banning, I wonder if I could get you to just delete the account and its comments. Thanks again.

So that's
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whybroke
And there are plenty of people who do not and have no desire to live in a city at all, and that isn't going to change. Many people retire to rural areas, or live in smaller cities/towns. It's a deliberate lifestyle choice for many, and these people are perfectly happy to own a vehicle of their own and use it and it's not a problem that needs solving for them. So when urban technologists come in and say they're going to "solve" the problem of car ownership and turn it into a service, such people respond somewhere between mockery and outrage at the ignorance of such people thinking their ultra-urban environment is the only acceptable way of life.
MIT has a course called 6.035 which might be of use. Unfortunately the ocw page doesn't have lecture videos, but there seem to be some on YouTube if you search for it and the notes on ocw could help. Good luck!

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Edit: here's some videos https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Also maybe check out the recommended text: Modern Compiler Implementation in Java (Tiger Book)

And a few more resources here: http://cons.mit.edu/sp14/references.html
Distance is not such a great obstacle if you have time. Aliens could conceivably live much longer than humans, making many thousand year journeys feasible. Or they could send effectively immortal machines instead, maybe via something like von Neumann probes. Generation ships are also possible.

These distances only seem long to us because we're thinking mostly in getting to other stars in a single human lifetime, which is a pretty short lifetime even compared to some other organisms on Earth (like trees, not to mention organisms that can go in to stasis indefinitely, like the mushroom spores of Terrence McKenna alien contact hypothesis fame). Once you remove the limit of a single human lifetime, your reach expands greatly.

The many billions of years that the universe has existed should give an advanced civilization plenty of time to visit the entire galaxy, either in person or by proxy, without even having to invoke the possibility of FTL drives or wormholes.
No, because that would be stupidly expensive. Besides, it would introduce a second problem: fixing the healing code - more specifically the parts that validate the candidate functions, which can be bugged as well as anyone who as written automated tests knows.

But I guess that saying that your system died from autoimmune disease is way more "exciting" than saying that it died from a segfault.
So you're saying the unsafe house killed him?
Also screws have poor toughness compared to nails, and should never be used for framing.

Just because it looks strong doesn't mean it is strong.
>This isn't about building codes. It's about stickers and permits

That is the building code. It is all about stickers and stamps. Why is a tree that grew on my land that I cut myself not acceptable? It has nothing to do with the wood obviously, it has to do with creating make work jobs for bureaucrats to "inspect" and stamp lumber.
"Undergrad researcher comes up with..." uggh you're gonna sell it like that?
A funny thing happened when Hurricane Andrew (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew) came through South Florida. Homes built in the 1950s (way before "modern building standards") did much better than those build in the 1980s and very early 1990s.

While building standards exist to ensure a base minimum of safety and quality, that's it---it's a base and there's no real reason to exceed it (it just adds expense). The older homes were built more conservatively (the Brooklyn Bridge is something like six times the strength it needs; compare to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)) built "just to spec").
I wish I would've known about that before I started... I went into it with the idea of creating a web interface to control everything, and adding in the voice control was easy because I was already using Google auth for the web interface. If I end up adding support for more things (buying some cheap RF controlled switches and creating a module for that), I might go the route to port everything over.
Not seeing people cooking the food you're enjoying is not unique to Eatsa.
Singer George Michael of Wham Fame Dead at 53
I would love to learn how to focus in one damn area of CS, I have been doing some IT Security but it's sooo wide and there are sooo many things to learn and ace and I don't think I'm Linux /programming /DBA /Networking / robotics savvy at any of these... I'm just confused about how to direct my career... Oh and I'm 35 hehe
Ugh I hate being wrong (and realising I'm impatient and surly). Thanks for the nudge in the right direction, it was nice after all.
BBC Radio 4, in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, has a programme that interviewed people who fought in WWI - Voices of the First World War.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p9l

It's hard to describe what it's like listening to these stories, from people who are now dead, about a horrific time in their life.
All I know is what the manufacturer said about unexpected resistance to changing building codes, and the blatant make-work compromise they ended up with:

https://reason.com/blog/2010/06/24/plumbers-unions-vs-waterl...
I have a huge list and of words but nothing is taking my fancy

I was thinking about @: Solo ?
Why your project should never join GNU
> If you're making yourself rich you can't turn around and plead that your act was selfless public service.

If the public willingly partook of his services, by definition they were a public service. Stores profit from me and yet I also profit from them.

But you're trying to twist out some strange moralistic meaning, as if he should run his business as a non-profit despite how you and I both expect to profit from our work. And even if he could just give his products away, you'd condemn him for that as well. Nobody needs to be selflessly service the public just to deserve protection (or the right to protect themselves).

> you won't convince me otherwise by repeating arguments about how drug laws should be reformed

I'm not arguing that they should, but mainly because I think that's obvious. I'm arguing that because these are our laws, we created this situation. That as long as we have these laws, we create this exact scenario.

> I think it has zero bearing on this case.

Well, other than being 100% the cause of this case. Because you can't blackmail someone for something legal, and this is the very model of a consensual. Nobody was forced to shop Silk Road.

If we don't need to justify the law then we could just as well make abortion illegal and apply the same logic to escaped abortionists.

The law on its own is a worthless artifact, not justification.

> Ulbricht was no different than any other violent drug lord and

Wrong, considering his attempted violence was defensive in nature. But also, boring blame centric thinking.

Drug lords are no different than spice merchants; protecting their wares until they get to market. If you want safer streets, protect the merchants.
just choosing 10% of the words from the arxiv fb page post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>plenty of places in the world have power crises, and they do respond by limiting consumption of power.

At the cost of luxury, economic development and social stability.

It's an emergency option, not a sustainable one.

New generation and leaps and conservation technology allow for the same options while improving future sustainability.
Someone who pumps a watershed affects it for miles around, where presumably other people live and are negatively affected by reduced water supply.

Water rights in California are not at all market based, because of historical reasons and a previously mistaken notion of property/mineral rights.
Why would Google fund a bunch of script kiddies who know nothing about OS development and do nothing but introduce bugs into the OS they leech from?
The worst of the Manhattan Project leaks (2013)
Why Am I So Fat?
As someone who's spent 15 years in construction, the sanctioned way around this is to actually pay an architect or engineer to put their stamp on your plans. The inspector is actually only there to sign off on the fact that some engineer has approved the structural integrity of the materials and installation. If you deviate from the basic products or install, you have to get an engineer or architect to put a stamp on your plans, then the inspector verifies your building is built according to the spec the engineer or architect signed off on.

In the long run, it's probably cheaper for almost everyone since most houses are built with the same materials and techniques. If you want to deviate, you have to get it signed off. 99% of people benefit from the increase in the review speed and the building dept not paying for everyone to be a certified eng.
The costs of regulations are equally well measured in blood though it's a lot less visible than when it comes from say a building collapsing.
> Drones are a fad.

The concept of autonomous machines is a fad?
Christmas Eve in NewYork 2016 – Times Square – RockeFeller Center Plaza – H and M
For me I found it was easiest to cut some reading time down at night before bed, and dedicate 30 minutes to a Duolingo lesson a night.
Is this a new-ish feature or did I just not read the docs thouroughly when I first used it almost a year ago? Thanks for the tip either way.
This is really hard for people to understand. Things like long term cost per seat mile etc.

If electrical really is that efficient and maintenance free and cost effective, albeit a heavy investment, they should be employed in buses and taxis first. And long after that, in consumer cars that sit in the parking lot modt of the time.
Uhh... it was on the Longreads recommended reading for this week and figured I'd share. I submitted last night, looks like someone else submitted later today and I got the karma for it. So it goes
People have been complaining for 20 years+ that economics chose the wrong tool. It needs psychology, not math. (Or, more accurately: more and less, respectively – you'll still need math).

The old joke about physicists starts "Consider a spherical chicken". It's funny because it gets at the reductionism at the core of physics, and it's even funny for physicists because they actually have been pretty successful with that model.

It just doesn't work that way in economics. Even worse, the reductionism in economics is unethical, because when it registered (somewhere) that humans are not "objective, utility-maximising spheres" they more or less started advocating that they /should/ be. That got us to "corporations are people" and 24-step daily checklists to "make better use of your time". It also made fast-food the superior choice (time is money!), so at least the "spherical" part is coming along.

After this short rant, which was obviously about microeconomics and therefore off-topic, something different for macro: While he's right that the "growth" debate has had more or less the same trajectory as the Grand Unifying Theory in physics, I wouldn't discount the improvements we've made in other areas. Inflation, for example, is pretty well under control. People don't appreciate that too much, but I remember how my Grandmother talked about inflation. It was basically /the/ catastrophe of her life (Germany in the 20ies – WW2 was just a result of it).

So we seem to be doing something right – maybe economics, maybe politics, but certainly better.

I also disagree with the very last paragraph of the article where he seems to advocate dropping the scientific method for a model closer to that of the social sciences. An improved discourse would obviously be great, but he seems to be equating math with the scientific method. We can try to get at the complexities of economics with new tools and still verify the results. Ultimately, math should be able to make a comeback when it develops the tools to describe systems of this complexity. It's a lot like the brain: it is obviously possible to describe the brain using physics & math (because it's a physical system). BUT we're not there yet, and until we are, we get better results with the collection of heuristics called "psychology"
Rescuing Boris (1996)
Excellent idea. Reminds me of tip4commit.com or BitHub.

I also wonder if make sense for donator to be able to select their desired Z percentage.