skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to master theoretical material and consolidate the things I learn. I've basically stumbled my way through a Computer Science Undergraduate degree without actually understanding anything I've really done.
Learn to have hobbies?

Right now my life consists of Commute->Work->commute->gym->sleep. I actually don't look forward to weekends since there is nothing to occupy my mind.
So... mind-mapping...?
The exact same argument applies to different human cultures. Clashes happened, but we're all still here. Annihilation is not inevitable.
How much does Jupiter weigh?
How tall is Kareem Abdul Jabaar?
How far is it to Los Angeles?
Set a timer for 15 minutes.
Set another timer for 8 minutes.
Play my discover weekly playlist on Spotify.
This isn't about building codes. It's about stickers and permits. An independent inspector said that it was built twice as strong as a regular house. The inspector was just throwing the book at the person because it didn't follow his bureaucracy.

It's the same thing that Uber was doing with the self-driving car permit, if you actually pay attention to the details. Neither are less safe, it's just that both didn't kiss the ring of the bureaucracy and the civil servants didn't like it.
I want to learn compiler development. My goal is to get enough of an understanding to be able to work on other people's compilers, such as SBCL.

I'd like to:

-Build a lisp that targets LLVM IR

-Build an HDL out of lisp that can be compiled into a simulation, as well as be compiled to a netlist for synthesis.

-Build a testbench toolkit out of that same lisp.
Yes, good points. I admit I could have done a better job expanding on their benefits.

It seems to me like it should really be a federal regulation, with tiers of strictness by population density or something. Then instead of having different codes for every municipality, you have one standardized set that enforces the major benefits where the stakes are highest, and yet allows more freedom on the edges. But yea, history didn't go that way.
"An observer (the awareness) misapprehends working of a set of semi-independent parts as a whole, like an observer of a large city from the top of a skyscraper could readily mistake it for a living organism."

So you (and/or Robert Wright) would argue that a city doesn't exist as something worthy of a name in itself? In other words, "Albuquerque" doesn't denote anything; the only thing that exists is a loosely related collection of buildings, people, etc.?
As much as I adore all the Jay Miner-led designs, in the grand scheme of things most of the advantages they posed come from being brilliant - and highly customized - relative to their time frame. The Sharp and NEC computers marketed in Japan offer an "alternate history" look at things but even they eventually succumbed to Wintel in the 90's.
This article by far doesn't give enough information to judge the situation. We don't know which regulations he broke.
The issue isn't really the amount of regulation but if certain regulation makes sense or not. The whole deregulation crowd never actually talks about which regulations should be abolished.
Once thing that is difficult is to ever consider is being one with someone else. You find pretty, like, lust, but there's a chair that is still filled.
* How to make a simple MMORPG.

* Understand what toposes are.

* Understand what monads are.
Water proof speaker:

SoundLogic AWS-12/2970R Bluetooth Shower Speaker with FM Radio and Carabiner (Red) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BFIAL6I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_HYey...
Yes, and while we are at it, let's abolish safety belts, crash zones in car, food safety inspections , motorcycle helmets and non lead paint. These are all solved problems. Things have changed.
How to ask people for their problems and hire developers to make scalable products for me instead of selling my individual programming time for money.
Remodeling my own home. Found some pretty sketchy electrical, had a contractor that cut some corners. I'm grateful for modern building codes. Ignorance is bliss, but then you get a little bit of awareness, and realize how fragile everything is, and so forth.
Disclaimer: CS-Student who is interested in FP-languages but is yet not really experienced in this topic. I am also a bit drunk.

i think the problem is that js is not really designed for this kind of usage. If you look at this from the point pf view of an compiler FP is way easier to modify and optimize to improve performance. There are many factors but i believe the most important factor of future FP-base optimising compiler is rich type-info that makes many optimisation techniques possible or easier (this is important) to implement. While it's kinda boring, just look at haskell what possible there with rewrite rules. In a way it's possible to write your own compiler optimisation for your library.

In JS it's way harder because JS is untyped and the type system is way, way more complicated. Many of the hatches you use to optimise your program make it harder for the compiler to optimize your program. And i know about JIT-compiler, they are really complex beasts and the only way to tackle a language like JS. Just look (again) at Haskell, i always wondered what a really, really god JIT-compiler would look like. I would think that all the optimisation that you get by just using some pragmas would be only "engineering" work and don't require some fundamental breakthroughs. Especially if you consider the huge amount of time that went into something like the JVM.
Why do the drones have to be physical?

I think we get caught-up in the physical nature of the universe. I mean, anyone who can efficiently traverse the galaxy would have completely understood the laws of the universe and be able to somehow travel as fast/faster than the speed of light, meaning that they would have to somehow violate the physical mass=infinite, length=0, time=0 constraints of the speed of light. There's no way that you would be able to travel efficiently under those physical constraints. It would have to be some dimensional non-physical method of travel. And if they can do that, then physical drones would be unneeded.
Not totally crazy, but as somebody who's been an analyst and also a marketing consultant for decades, I'd quibble with various details and oversimplifications, as per http://www.strategicmessaging.com/online/technology-marketin...

Specific points that concern me include:

-- You do not need to pay to brief an analyst. Really. If you're under the incorrect impression that you do, we'll eventually stop trying to talk you our of your error, as we like money. But you don't need to pay.

-- On the other hand, when you give a briefing and then ask for free consulting in the form of "feedback", the free part can be extremely brief.

-- Analysts' preferences in the style of presentations they receive varies WILDLY.

-- Engaging with analysts can be productive earlier than the article suggests, if you're looking for consulting. I had my first contract with Cloudera when they had 22 employees, and it wasn't even at my lowest tier of service. Other clients have started before they had revenue, venture capital, or a double-digit number of employees, and I think most are glad they did.
I'm coming 20-30 years late to the "biology is the future" mindset.

In my case, personal health has left me no choice.

Some poor medical advice and treatment, combined with my adversity to the whole topic -- yes, strong squeamishness combined with fear/observation that thinking about adverse events seemed (seems!) to instantiate them. That all has left me with a substantial health burden.

Meanwhile, in my experience the current U.S. health care system seems to be -- technological "miracles" aside -- making getting effective treatment ever more difficult.

So... As with everything else, it seems, you can't rely on expert consult -- even when you can afford it -- but rather have to learn and do -- or at lease prescribe and manage -- everything yourself.

So... biology. In other words, I need to belatedly read up on the owners manual. And find some hacks that help me.

As an aside, we're about to the point of molecular programming. So, maybe this will coincide with the current leading edge in technology, anyway.
I have that planned for a long time. I've been making progress in recursive thinking and thus compilation and interpretation last year (thanks to a prolog book). I may attempt the LLVM thing in 2017. This or a bootstrapped forth, x86 64 or maybe AARCH64.

Do you have a blog ?
How do you enforce this? Are there people who blow up the house immediately after the builder dies or moves out?
With Russia, you were talking about orthodox Christmas, which is a slightly different holiday with a slightly different tradition. The word "Orthodox" should be part of the description.
Maybe consider partneting with someone who is good at that already
How can be sure that syscall table has exactly same address for every system ? (void*)0xffffffff81601680;
(edit: i'm an idiot)
The Google Home definitely supports Chromecast now [0].

My favorite related thing to say is "Hey Google, play House of Cards on my TV", and it will turn on my TV and then start playing the next episode from Netflix. Perfect for when I'm walking over to the TV with my dinner.

[0]: https://blog.google/products/home/google-home-holidays/
My sister-in-law is going through this right now. Her husband passed away a little over a year ago.

So much of this resonates with her own experience and what she's told me... it's as if the article was written by her.
Ten seconds of web searching for "camper caused wildfire":

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-arrested-for-arson-in-colorado...

http://tri1025.com/illegal-campers-may-have-started-another-...

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Cause-of-Rowan-wildfire-a...

http://www.khq.com/story/32604122/11000-acre-wildfire-burnin...
I mean obviously the story told from his point of view is going to be one sided.

That said if the complaint was simply that the materials used had not been through expensive certification _and there was no cost effective alternative for individuals_. Then it starts to sound a lot like regulation as barrier to entry.
I am very happy to see the continuation of CM in the form of LineageOS. Thank you.
the Uber permit was a story because it WASN'T safe; it got in the news for running red lights.
I think the trick is to find something you're truly excited about. It's not work if you're enjoying the thing you're doing.

Perhaps the problem is you're wanting a side-project for the wrong reasons.
The back of the house is like that in every regular restaurant. Prep and most cooking is done by low-paid (usually brown) workers, plus it's hot and cramped all the time.
That might seem easier, but would have trouble adapting to local conditions. Not every city is in an earthquake zone. Not every city suffers huricanes. Many local initiatives would also be quashed. For instance, my city forbids doornobs while some small towns mandate them. (No joke. It's to do with disabled people and bears. It may sound silly but nobody really complains.)
Well, that's because desalination is not nearly as good a solution as computer programmers think it is.

Not picking on you specifically, but I wish that the default hacker mindset, when it comes across a complicated subject that it thinks it has an easy answer for, would be, "what is it about this problem that I don't understand?"

Let's do a quick overview of what desalination would mean for one of the state's central valley agricultural counties. I picked San Joaquin county, because it's a large producer, but not the largest, and because all of the other problems it would have with desalination -- rate of consumption and the challenge of getting fresh water into the county -- put it roughly in the middle of the set. There are counties that produce more agriculture, and there are counties that would be harder to feed water to. We'll just go with San Joaquin for now.

San Joaquin county produces almonds, apples, apricots, blueberries, cherries, grapes, olives, peaches, pears, walnuts, "biomass", beans, corn, hay, rice, safflower, wheat, asparagus, cucumbers, melons, onions, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, and tomatoes. [1]

California is large and mountainous. To get water into San Joaquin county, you have to pump it 1300 feet uphill, twice (!), over a distance of nearly 50 miles, to get over the coastal range that lies between San Joaquin county and the San Mateo bay. I made a map with an elevation profile for you [2]. And that's taking a short, as-the-bird-flies route, and putting the desal plant into the bay, which I'm sure a few people would have something to say about.

San Joaquin county uses somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 million gallons per day of water. [3] Firm official numbers are hard to come by, because the nature of agricultural water consumption makes it difficult to measure and also because it's a political hot potato, but this appears to be a number that's somewhere within the range of plausible.

The billion-dollar, ultra-modern, newly-constructed Carlsbad desalination plant can produce around 50 million gallons per day of fresh water (and an equal amount of briney waste water) [4]. It would cost 10 billion dollars to reduce San Joaquin county's agricultural water draw by just 30% through desalination, and that doesn't include any of the expense or logistical challenges of actually getting the water into that county or dealing with the massive ecological problem the waste would create.

And that's just one county.

In one state.

That's why the people that are in charge of the state's water issues -- the most complex such in the world [5] -- don't take desal as a serious solution to the state's water problems.

I have no idea how you'd apply desal to a situation like Kansas.

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[1]: https://www.sjgov.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=25373 [pdf]

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/tD4hMYu.jpg

[3]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_uwTsIh... [pdf; original doesn't load]

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California
I believe lots of people used FP to write short and correct programs; then they profile and tweak the bits that needs it.

Also, are you using javascript native .map method ? IIRC libraries like lodash or ramda, through use of reducers, have vastly faster idiomatic FP performance. Mostly because they avoid successive array allocation.
They have a huge uphill battle against going national sticking with a vegetarian menu. If their target is McDonald's something huge would have to change to make that possible in the US. Chipotle was able to grow because they have meat. Vegetarianism just isn't common enough here right now.
I've yet to graduate, but I find myself in the same position. I've got other non-CS related hobbies that I enjoy and so I don't really end up making any good side projects.

CS seems to have this feel around it where it has to be both your job and your passion. Recruiters want to see that you spend all your time outside of work/school programming, which makes it difficult for people like us who have other hobbies they like too. I wonder if it will ever change?
Thanks for the link, but I'm suspicious.

This other link says that a detonation of 30 kilotons in North Korea produced a seismic activity similar to a 3.5 earthquake. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea-nuclear-bomb-did-not-tr...

A 100 megatons bomb is only 3333 times more powerful, but the scale is logarithmic, 1 more point is 31.6 more powerful. So 3333 is between 2 and 3 more point in the seismic scale.

My exact calculation is M = 2/3 log(100000/30) + 3.5 = 5.8 < 6.

I don't believe that in can case a very big tsunami.
This is one of the reasons the tinyhouse movement has become so popular. In Texas (and many other states), you can build your own house on a trailer and register it as a homemade travel trailer. RVs, being vehicles, are usually exempt from building codes. The main hurdle becomes finding a municipality that allows fulltime RV living which, depending on where you live, may be easier than jumping through regulation hoops building on a foundation.
I have heard that too. One approach for solving it would be to have a pool of inspectors state wide and assign them randomly to inspections.
Thanks for the info! Perhaps in the new year I should consider taking my Google Home back out of its box and giving it another shot. I really wanted to like it, I am an Android dev and feel comfortable in the Google ecosystem.

Out of curiosity, do you know if the the flow I describe works now? The link (and your comment) discuss putting content on the TV. The link says you can do:

> even control your media with commands like “Pause this episode”, without lifting a finger.

but that didn't work for me 3 weeks ago, does it work now?
My biggest NixOS problems
Except the bit where self-driving ubers were running lights and driving unsafely.
I'd like to learn more about the biology and psychology of the mind. Also about the ageing process.
Ask HN: Recommend an introductory course on compilers
I am doing Bachelors in Information Technology and to my bad luck, my curriculum does not have a course on compilers. I looked online and found one on Coursera only to realize that it has now been removed. Could you guys recommend a good compilers course or book which gives a good introduction to the topic along with a guided practical implementation? I would be much obliged.
How to effectively market my consulting skills. I've been a web developer for over a decade now and I'm still not confident in my ability to bring in consistent work. The work comes, but I'd like to have more potential clients knocking.

From what I can tell, the best way to achieve that is by consistently offering to help others with my skills. So I'm making it a point in the coming year to make blogging a part of my work routine.

Are any of you facing the same dilemma? I'd love to hear your insights!
>>It's the same thing that Uber was doing with the self-driving car permit, if you actually pay attention to the details. Neither are less safe, it's just that both didn't kiss the ring of the bureaucracy and the civil servants didn't like it.

This is ridiculous. Uber's self-driving cars have run red lights on at least one occasion[1]. Their technology is quite far behind that of Google and others.

Furthermore, the permit in question is both very easy and cheap to attain. We aren't talking about years of bureaucratic process.

The most likely reason Uber has refused to attain permits is because doing so would require disclosing accidents.

[1]http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13960836/uber-self-drivin...
I find it plausible to say that something identifiable by the term "I" exists.
If you want to build your own, check out this library:

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

Found it while browsing HN/new the other day, and it's been fun to play with so far.
Right now Echo/Alexa is still surprisingly bad at NLP(1), so its strength seems to be in simple integrations with platforms that have done the heavy lifting.

I can't, for example, have Echo give me travel times to work by subway or even schedule anything beyond a simple timer.

However, I have converted entirely to Phillips Hue bulbs, a Kasa wifi plug and a Beme eRod curtain rod, with a Logitech Harmony Hub as a bridge for IR devices (like the eRod). With this I can do things like tell Alexa to open and close my curtains (well, "Alexa turn curtains on" since it is bad at NLP so it can't understand "Alexa, open the curtains"). I also have it turning on my Christmas tree lights at sunset and off at 1 am (thanks to the Kasa plug). It's nice to have it turn some lights in my house off and others to 50% with a couple quick verbal commands.

If I had cable and cared I could use the Logitech Harmony to tell Alexa to turn on ESPN, but I've been cordless for a long time.

I still really wish some things were first order operations: it is absurd I can't schedule the Phillips lights to turn on and off at a given time, every day, for example.

I'm still pretty new to everything given I held out for the Echo Dot so I could have something with a 3.5mm out to stream Spotify via my receiver, so I've only
had a couple months to dive in. I can see it doing more for me, like watering my plants by hooking up another Kasa plug to a reservoir of water and a fish tank pump.

For now it is better than anything else I've tried (haven't seen/tried Google Home yet), but it is still bad enough at just recognizing my actual voice commands I am hestitant to build more on it until the platform has matured.

(1) When I left Amazon they seemed one of the stronger technical teams and I expected then to have been much farther by now.
Did building codes exist when that electrical was laid down, and did it help?
People who advocate for "regulations" (authoritarian prohibitions on voluntary action and interaction by and between consenting adults) should be characterized as what they are: human rights violators who would imprison innocent people.
7 Linux predictions for 2017
I've been to their Spear street location in San Francisco. It's excellent for a quick and healthy (yet hearty) breakfast. It's novel to go inside and not see people cooking the food you're enjoying.
Allowing corporations and governments to spy on you.
A social network for people drinking the same beverage right now.

You could have rooms for particular regional coffees or more simple like hot chocolate or commercialized like one for Budweiser.

There could be content you unlock by proving you're drinking a certain drink.
Thought Police. Doubleplus ungood investigation of thought crimes.
This is what worries me about Eatsa :-/
But it isn't like the health department in restaurants. Commercial kitchens could harm someone with bad food practices.

The same goes for your house. After all, you simply won't life there forever: Either you'll sell the house or die eventually. Anything you do to that house that doesn't meet codes can seriously affect the folks that live there after you.

This is why the codes are important.
Show HN: Registered the domain 1hr 20min ago
Nuclear power has been ideologically poisoned, partly for good reasons, partly for bad (I'm not taking sides here). Whatever the reasons, the effect is that most politicos won't risk a voter stampede to the guy who didn't support reactor building, and as a result, not just in the US, nuclear energy is on its deathbed.

There's some irony in this, because one consequence is that a country's oldest (and hence least safe) reactors will be kept online for longer than planned.

Happily, desal can be powered by solar as well, and in fact this is one application that's OK to run just in the daytime, as the daytime's fresh water can be buffered overnight.
curious on what context do you mean by real time?
>This headline really overstates it. Anywhere outside of a major metropolitan center you are gonna be hard pressed to deal with day to day things like getting groceries without a car. The nearest grocery store to my house is about 5 miles. I can bike it but that really limits how much stuff I can get.

Self driving cars don't limit "how much stuff you can get", and you only need a few for a neighborhood of say 10 houses...
No blog. It just seems like something I can't quite get the hang of... the writing part that is. Maybe I'll add that to my 2017 list.
Check out these videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp01DFl8kp-239gW289C0ew
Could be an interesting experiment on Quantopian.
Many of those rules are important, but lots of them are really insignificant from the safety viewpoint, just a pure bureaucracy. Is it really important that fire extinguishers in the hallways of buildings have to be mounted on the wall at exact prescribed height? If you just let them sit on the floor you can get yourself fined, although they will function exactly the same regardless of the position.