skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Detecting People in Artwork with CNNs
"while poverty itself is reduced and work is encouraged"

Neither of these things are true with UBI. Not everyone is ambitious or has career goals. Giving out free money will encourage many to not look for work and continue to barely scrape by. The end result will be future generations of more poverty.

We should abolish welfare (except for the small percentage of people that physically can't work) and turn UBI into a government jobs program. You will need to work every day picking up garbage, answering the phones, or working on infrastructure jobs assigned to you to get money from the government.
Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson (2011)
AMP is of course mostly meant for articles - but we wanted to see how it did for complex(er) layouts. Had a weekend hackathon to recode our main one-pager for performance and SEO recently + we also did an AMP version of the page at http://pag.es

The AMP version of the site is (as expected) not as performant as our custom optimised one. AMP version will load 1.2MB+ of data with 28+ requests, while ours makes due with half of that and 0.6MB with 17 requests. Some of that is due to AMP components that could be a bit more optimised (like we have a hidden youtube video that launches on click - and the youtube AMP component will load all of it dependencies on first start which is not ideal - our custom version does this when the user clicks/launches the video).

However - the new site release did wonders for SEO. Its probably not all due to just having an AMP version, but also just having a good mobile/optimised site - we still landed on 1./2./3. google search page results for some fairly generic terms. Really surprised us - kind of shocking actually, especially since we did little with the page before and didn't have that many inbound links, etc...
Did you actually read the article to its conclusion?
A change in mentality is needed, that's for sure.

I was browsing Kijiji the other day and was shocked to see how many people sell their perfectly working appliances just because they are tired of how they look (white) and prefer the newer trend of "stainless steel"...
I'm mainly a Java programmer here but I like F# a lot. Are there any problems using only F# with .NET Core apps? Do you really need to use C#?
The individuals one chooses to involve in one's own life are, without question, a misleading barometer for understanding much of greater humanity. We surround ourselves with the qualities that we seek within, and it is often tempting to overlook that in pursuit of broader conclusions.
The answer to the question that's probably on everyone's mind: the resulting image is 12MiB for the x64 version and 11MiB for the x86 version.

By comparison, 16 MiB buys you a full-fledged (windowed) Linux live CD: http://tinycorelinux.net/ (or you can use their 11MiB kernel-only environment).
As Moshe_Silnorin demonstrated, the available examples would cause a complete mental shutdown for most people inside the Overton Window, which makes presenting them counterproductive.

I do agree with your criticism though, and the author would have done well to present historical examples that have lost their emotional intensity in the present day.
What is it with this obsession with expensive first-tier brand computers? I have a much cheaper Asus 8/256GB ZenBook which runs Slackware/KDE absolutely perfectly and is a joy to use.
Yeah, the horrible state of their search, which in many cases is clearly costing them serious money, tells me something is wrong with that part of the company, and since it's so critical, it says nothing good about the company as a whole.

Perhaps it's a bad thing they started with books, where counterfeits certainly exist, but aren't quite at the same level of problem, shouldn't be any problem when they were sourcing from that big wholesaler of boos, and ... how long did it take them to enter the used book market with third parties? And, again, that was a well developed market before they entered....
Also:

https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/
"Octet" is still commonly used and in no way archaic. In fact, most standards use "octet" instead of "byte" because, despite IEC having said otherwise in IEC 80000-13, most other references still define the byte as the smallest addressable unit that can represent any member of the host system's character set.

Notably, C99 (and its predecessors) follow this convention. Owing to history, and the curiosities and resolution constraints of fixed-point arithmetics, a lot of devices with a DSP in it think a byte is anything but 8 bits.

There used to be systems that used 5, 6 or 7 bits for a byte, too, but as far as I know, most of those really have gone the way of the Dodo. However, since most of those systems were used in fields like telecom (and they weren't only what we'd call "computers" nowadays), "octet", rather than "byte", is still commonly used in virtually every networking-related context.
I rarely read r/programming any more, its content rules seeming so arbitrary. My favorites are:

- r/python

- r/reverseengineering

- r/netsec

- r/shittykickstarters (to read debunkings of why a Kickstarter is scientifically/technically unfeasible)
You're completely missing the point. You're paying for double of that battery usage and not getting it.

Imagine if Linux was so unoptimized that it needed twice the CPU cores and RAM; your argument would be that "but it comes with twice as much as the other guys" and ends up being twice as expensive and twice as big.
I'll be that guy on this thread that points out Hammerspoon. It's an OS X automation tool that replaces pretty much every OS X 'tweak' style application out there. http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar

I think it's the best of these type of projects, and would love to see more people using it / developing and sharing scripts.
Looks like the plugins-page is actually the main page. You can choose some category from the list on the left.
It's possible. They'd probably do internet cafes and libraries first. That gives them visual surveillance on top of the Internet surveillance. Far as in U.S., there was one satirical poster someone made selling the NSA surveillance program as a free replacement for backup software. ;)
Before agriculture and civilization as we know it, people lived all over the world. Their lifestyles were sustainable and included meat.
To be honest, WiFi stability is a question of architecture and implementation. With the right hardware, and enough of it to avoid the issues associated with APs overload, you can make WiFi very reliable.
Sad for the poor Ugandan kids.

This sentence caught my attention:

>>Uganda's High Court ruled the 63 Bridge International Academies provided unsanitary learning conditions, used unqualified teachers and were not properly licensed. However, many parents have protested and rejected the decision to close its doors.

The key point here is "lincensed": totalitarian (or banana republics) and corrupt regimes have this convenient way of "licensing" to throw away anyone they don't like.
These schools must learn to properly "buy" the licenses and sanitation certificates by appropriately pleasing the authorities.

Disclaimer: I don't have high opinion of both Mr. MZ and Mr. BG when it comes to philanthropy given their (more so of MZ, through the internet.org) greedy and overall dishonest behaviour regarding their users, but this effort of theirs seems laudable.
> They provide better value for money than migadu.com just by looking at it.

This depends on your use-case. For running a single account, yes. For one intended use-case of Migadu (managing multiple accounts across multiple domains), then no.
> This uses one-byte characters encode seven bits and two-byte characters to encode fourteen bits. Hence this attains the goal of encoding seven bits per byte, i.e. the 8 : 7 inflation ratio.

The magic is in the 2 byte encoding 110sss1x 10xxxxxx.

There are really 890 characters used in this encoding, so it should be called base890.

((2^7)-6)+((6•2)•(2^6))=890
Never experienced it on the 9350.
Check http://www.xenophobes.com/the-Americans/
Planning my next computer purchase and going full VMware on the surface is starting to seem like the best solution. Currently on MacBook Pro but that situation is just such a shitshow now.

So aggravating that the closest we can get to a gold standard for a native Linux laptop is more like a bronze standard...
Just to be clear, this is another new account, barely an hour old. Is it possible to flag such accounts?
You may be better off using Yocto[1], which is a custom distortion builder for small-space use cases. It's an official Linux Foundation project as well.

[1] https://www.yoctoproject.org
I hope they'll keep the motherboard format, so that you could upgrade it to future cpus etc. as the "shell" and the screen is pretty good. It is very easy to replace a motherboard in XPS 13 - i did this to upgrade my XPS 9350 from 8GB to 16GB, without an issue and Dell has very detailed documentation how to do it.
Paris is famous for it, though I've been to several parts of France and didn't have much issue... old people definitely tried to correct my accent but that's fine by me.
If the disposal fees are punitive rather than set by the free market itself, then it's not a free market incentive.
It does actually. Check out http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-stream-and-http-experimental/1...., where a distributed echo example is shown.
But ... selling them means somebody else will use them. Its not the same as throwing them away. Its called 'reuse' which is actually much better than 'recycle'
I don't know much about Yarvin but I imagine his point is the universities indoctrinate the teachers and the journalists who in turn indoctrinate the public.
Not a sub, but I'm a big fan of Designer News. I've been a daily visitor for the last 3 years. While it's more design-focused, many Users are UI Designers, Product Designers and people working in tech.

https://www.designernews.co/
So these people have different preferences than you do.

That's hardly a compelling case for "they need to change their mentality".

Tolerate diversity, please.
I would think that the microphone is connected to the motherboard with a plug of some sort. So just open it up and disconnect that.
Possible, yes (`imapsync` makes it easy). Does it make sense? Depends on you.
Why couldn't they do something like this?

https://files.catbox.moe/2nnsm3.jpg
Maybe America is simply too big
> No connection to core metrics. Infrequent discussions about desired customer and business outcomes. Team cannot connect work to key business and customer satisfaction metrics. Impossible to connect iterations to “what matters most”

Sometimes (or often times) a companies "core metrics" aren't truly core to the customer and business outcomes, they are just the easiest things to measure.
It's a very understandable worry :) Writing rules that when they fail just go into server error logs is sub-optimal at best. The real solution would be Google allowing per-site AMP de-registration, but that's a fantasy I bet.

This is a good article on Apache URL rewriting, if you want to go down that path: https://24ways.org/2013/url-rewriting-for-the-fearful/

I believe in your use case you want to transform `all/urls/of/any/sort/that/end/in/amp/` and simply redirect to everything minus the `/amp/`, so the rewrite rule shouldn't be too bad to write (and test).

I wouldn't use the "might work" in my comment since I wrote it without even seeing if the regex works, but if you get an Apache test domain running off your blog you can test the redirect rules in isolation before putting them on your blog.
2016 Election: A collection of cognative errors
Anyone remember Tom's Rescue Disk? This linux-on-a-floppy was a must-have for rescue and recover back in the day... The web site lives on, but many of the links are 404'd

http://www.toms.net/rb/
I agree, except that the fixed resource is votes, not economic resources (which everyone here knows are not fixed in any practical sense).

But doesn't this Presidential election at least suggest that enough people got unhappy about the very "fixed" (more like steadily declining) economic "resource" known as the working class job to swing the election to Trump?

All the raw statistics, from labor force participation to suicide rate changes, suggest your point isn't correct, except in a theoretical sense, or "any practical sense" except in the very long term.
Even with the rents decreasing, they are still way to high for most people and adjusted for inflation, far higher than they were 30 years ago.

The reason for the high rents are structural -- the use of politics to create artificial shortages in housing by use of zoning density restrictions. This is the deliberate creation of market failures due to "rent seeking" -- use of politics to create artificial scarcity to benefit a special interest group. The artificial scarcity inflates the value of property to landlords such as Donald Trump harming renters.

An example, regarding taxi cabs: NYC had a law creating a limit on taxi cabs to 13,000 medallions --needed in order to drive a yellow, hail-able cab. The market value of the taxi medallion was $1.2 million which meant that for drivers who typically lease cabs, a substantial part of their income went towards leasing the cab with medallion. Thus, taxi riders (renters of use of cabs for trips) were paying far more than they should and taxi medallion owners (landlords) were receiving a huge windfall.

Then Uber/Lyft came to NYC and the political artificial scarcity of (electronic) hail-able cabs was relieved. The result is that the medallion price went from $1.2 million to < $700,000 and far more drivers were no longer paying high leases to medallion owners and driving for Uber/Lyft instead. Our prices for taking hail-able cabs have decreased and continue to decrease. Everyone gains except the medallion "landlords."

This rent-seeking market inefficiency tremendously damages the economy. Fewer housing units are built than they should be in an efficient market. Tenants are paying a far greater proportion of their income for rent instead of goods and services. Simply fixing this law that benefits wealthy landlords can be a substantial stimulus to the economy.

Another cause of high rents is the number of illegal immigrants that are allowed to stay in certain cities. This NYTimes article claims there are about 600,000 "undocumented" immigrants in NYC (of a population of 8.5 million)[1]. Almost all undocumented immigrants are in the country illegally and hence the more correct word is illegal. These 600,000 illegal immigrants adds substantial market pressure that otherwise would not be there if the law were enforced and hence the rents are far higher for low-income New Yorker American citizens than they otherwise would be.

[1]. "Some 574,000 city residents are undocumented,..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/nyregion/economic-tsunami-...
> All people have identical abilities and preferences on average, therefore the demographics of a profession should exactly match the census.

That is rubbish. A straw man. I've spent more than a decade within the so-called Overton bubble at a university, and this is decidedly not the consensus as I experienced it.

All biology is known to yield population variation. That is obviously true by necessity. However, there are both ontogenetic and phylogenetic influences on outcomes. The progressive/egalitarian view is that the cultural dynamics that result from small population differences (that are in any case too high variance to be reliable for making individual discriminations) should not inhibit phylogeny. Put another way, an individual's self-expression should not be limited by the fact of their membership in a particular category.

Further, while there may well be, in lab settings, reliable significant population level differences, these differences at an individual level may entirely be swamped by cultural influences, rendering them insignificant.

Lastly, the sources of the population differences may, in some instances, be factors that are entirely culturally malleable. Males as a population may have a slight predisposition not to understanding mechanisms better, but instead to finding them interesting, which over the course of development leads to greater competence. This predisposition may be easily changed at a young age by an encouraging mentor or compelling Hollywood film. Similarly, someone may be predisposed to kidney failure not because of bad kidney cells, but because they don't have as strong a compulsion to drink water (a deficit trivially remedied).
Since you bring up the argument of "logic and leftists", science indicates that conservatives tend to have lower IQs. Just saying.
Actually, if you come across as a "stereotypical American" then, yes, I can imagine you ran into this. Cf. the movie "A Good Year", where Russell Crowe instructs Americans in a French restaurant to go to McDonald's because they're being obnoxious (apparently).
I have the skylake precision 5510; it also has the keyboard debounce issue, and it hasn't been fixed. Contacted Dell, had the keyboard replaced but that hasn't helped. I don't have faith in their ability to fix this - it's been an issue going back all the way to 2009 and affects multiple models (latitude, inspiron, xps, precision)

Used an external keyboard for the first few months, so money back is not an option anymore. Terrible experience!
> School choice means competition among schools. Which leads to winner and losers.

This doesn't follow at all. Consider e.g. a company that sells different flavors of spaghetti sauce (https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauc...). The flavors are competing, but only on a per-person basis; overall the flavors are optimized to satisfy everyone's (different) preferences.

It's quite easy to imagine a similar concept in education, where people learn better from a particular teaching style or are better served by a particular curriculum. There's no obvious reason to expect that one "good" school would be sufficient for everyone's needs; the ideal situation would instead be that one could choose from several schools, of which at least one is "good".
The article also postulates that due to the threat caused by people outside the academy/media/"cathedral", the overton window has shifted sharply in a radical direction in order to flush out those who are insufficiently loyal.

And if I recall correctly, that this is a regular process. Which has led us to this rather extreme point, historically near the extreme for the US.
As a summary for those who are unaware: a (now former) mod of that subreddit, who is a major Go contributor, called for the deletion (or the discussion there of) of the subreddit due to the actions of the Reddit CEO. He did so believing that the subreddit was an official communication channel. Upon learning that it was community started, he changed his opinion. Many are very offended.
When would you gzip encoded data instead of encoding gzipped data? Doesn't gzip after encoding defeat the whole idea of encoding the data in a format that won't get mangled by systems that expect to be handling text?
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A list of websites to learn how to use git
I'd much rather an app that had age appropriate videos for kids. I have an 8 year old that's too old for youtube kids and to young for youtube.
Can you explain the issues with Modi's government? As somebody who has never been there and get his news from the Caspian report, John Oliver and Al Jazeera, it looks like Modi is trying to do the right thing for the country.
So to provide some real numbers I just did this with a dishwasher. The circulation pump broke on a 4 year old dishwasher and would cost around $180 to repair but a new one with a 5 year guarantee would cost $350. Given the repairs came with no such guarantee and the price different was not too crazy we just got the new one.
FYI: Prices converted from South African Rand.
In the hard sciences, learning by rote, or just learning to manipulate symbols according to rules, is not a good long-term strategy.

http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/weeks//journal/elby-ajp...
If they are using the AGPL community version of Rainloop, that might also pull in some obligations they aren't meeting.

AGPL is pretty viral, even for a web app.
I agree that the left has its own form of bigotry that goes underchallenged for the most part, but the argument you're referring to is one of the most insidious and disingenuous the right espouses.

For the most part, the identity politics of the right have evolved from an explicit racism and sexism to an implicit one. The argument goes "as long as we don't explicitly mention race, sex, or ethnicity, we're ok," which isn't true. Voter ID laws are perfect example of this: they deny citizens of their constitutional right to vote without due process, in the absence of evidence for any systematic problems, and disenfranchise people based on socioeconomic status, and implicitly by race, but then complain when they're called on it, whining that the left has somehow shifted the goalposts. It's a sort of Bart Simpson defense ("I'm just walking around swinging my arms and if anyone happens to be in my way, it's their fault").

The essence of the Trump phenomenon to me seems to be the right getting tired of playing this game, of hiding the racism and identity politics they play. Trump just came out with it unapologetically, "saying it like it is" according to some of his supporters. I'm not saying everyone who voted for Trump did it for those reasons, but it was certainly a big part of it, especially during the primaries. I believe much of the mainstream right was not truly appalled by what he said, just the fact that he was so open about it. They distanced themselves from him when they believed it was politically harmful, and now are cozying up to him again when they realized it wasn't.

Who's playing identity politics again?
This is me as well. I keep stuff for as long as possible because of a mixture of tight-fistedness and anxiety about my environmental impact. So when something breaks there's always part of me that's delighted to be finally "allowed" to buy the latest product.
I'm not sure - I use a gaming keyboard on my desktop at home (Steel Series) and while it is mechanical with deep travel, you barely have to tap a key to get it to register. That is, you don't need to fully press a key to trigger it. At work I use a CODE keyboard which is also mechanical with a pretty deep press.

Compared to other Mac keyboards? My MBA feels super squishy - it's actually uncomfortable to use now.

All in all - after about 10k words on it, I like it.

If you're curious and in need of an upgrade just buy one. If you don't like it, return it.
No Hindu is not an ethnicity, and RSS has more in common with say, Ayatollahs or Erdogan than with Hitler or Stalin.
Every strain of populism even the religious kind is not fascism. Before declaring India a fascist state you have 50 some "Islamic Republics" that fit the bill of your definition of fascism.

edit: India is some how a fascist country for having a democratically elected right-wing party, but countries with Official state religions are not. I will drink your down votes, please keep them coming.
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