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Hi Everyone,

I'm the creator of Flask-Ask and now Flask-Live-Starter.

Developing a Flask application locally is easy. However, getting it up and running on production infrastructure is a harder.

Flask-Live-Starter prescribes a set of best-of-breed infrastructure components that make deploying to VPS instances a snap. It includes Fabric tasks that automate provisioning, deployment, and common post-deployment operations (database backup and log tailing).

Please check it out, and I'd love to hear any feedback you have.
Companies already pay income taxes on profits earned from robot work. There's nothing special about robots; the same applies to any type of equipment. I don't know how anyone could even draw a useful distinction between "robots" and other types of machinery for tax purposes.
I shouldn't judge based on a remembered, secondhand, out of context quote, but this sounds kind of... pretentious.
“The ad is malicious, despite specifying the "bestbuy.com" domain clearly”
The Many Tribes of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The JMeter Maven Plugin, 2.1.0 Released
When does a collection of hardware running some software become a "robot"? If I can replace an intern with a Python script, does that script start having to pay social security too?

Alternatively, if the description of a job can be expressed as a python script, and still be as robust in practice, what does that say about the job itself? Or about the people who are/were doing that job? How much of the threat of automation is based on realizing that the job one is doing, not just the output, could be commoditized?
> Asking someone to get a XMPP client so they can
> communicate with you normally just ends in confusion.

That's not entirely valid. I mean, look at bittorrent, they had an ^official^ client and then there were other clients and people who did not know anything about configuring their clients still managed to use them.

Asking someone to used an XMPP client, ideally should be the same as asking someone to use a torrent client.
When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ (2016)
Maven was added for
1. Java developers to be able to build the project, it is there so they can build the client.
2. For infrastructures that don't support proper front end build tools.

Saying that however to just build the client you can run "gulp" or "gulp zip" to create a build artefact.

Or for test execution "gulp run" then access http://localhost:4444/test

Anyone wanting to use this example would probably be better creating a "gulp test" task also.
Modular Deep Learning Could Be the Penultimate Step to Consciousness
I'm a little mystified, as I have a general standing advice to recommend to people to look at the URL line in search (which is green on Google search pages) to verify the domain of the destination is correct, rather than trusting the title. But this ad appears to successfully pretend to be bestbuy.com
There's a long line of succession... take your number, Jurgen: McCulloch, Pitts, Fukushima, Kohonen, Hopfield, Jordan, Elman, Werbos, LeCun, Hinton, Bengio... only to name very few.

You can also go even further... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJX0txJc6M
Thanks for your suggestion, franciscop. Check again (desktop view) :) https://webslides.tv/
I do agree completely with your statement on rural area with population. It's a fact that nobody can argue with.

But to think about it more, why do people have to live in such lifestyle with so much open "wasted" spaces?

Why everyone "has a car already"? All we talk about is the American lifestyle which most American still refuse to adapt or look different.
One of yummyfajitas's shticks is arguing that nationalism is essentially the same thing as racism.

Many people don't respond favorably to this argument because (if correct,) it defeats the "I'm not racist, I'm just nationalist" retort.
Those aren't comparable.

Noise is a metaprotocol, a framework of patterns for building secure transports.

Axolotl is a cryptographic ratchet construction, for continuously modifying encryption keys as messages are transmitted.

OTRv4 is a complete message cryptosystem, like Signal Protocol.
Artificial intelligence and the future of design
This is not even remotely true at all. Have you ever looked at a health insurance plan in the US?
30M of the 50M people of the municipality are urban, but yes it's more a large conurbation than a city proper.
> Though it is a matter of explicit over implicit too. If `name()` had a destructor you may want it to be explicitly tied to a scope by dint of being declared in one instead of floating around in a magical hidden variable that's tied to the scope of a different one. So there are reasons for why it may never be made to work that way.

I'm not sure I see what the problem is with this. It seems like it is very intuitive behaviour in this case and exactly what you would expect.
Just replace "work" in that comment with "jobs". It's about removing the necessity of work, and working for other people, not getting rid of work as a concept.
I have a bit of feedback: the scrolljacking doesn't work at all for me in Safari on macOS with a MacBook touchpad. All it does is activate the edge-bounce animation. Chrome is a little janky too, half activating the bounce animation and then advancing to the next slide. Firefox is fine since it doesn't do the edge-bounce.

The worst crime (to me anyway) is the history spam and this applies to all browsers. Hitting back changes the URL but not the slide that's shown, curiously. If you're going to go this route, that's fine, just update the visible slide.

I would prefer if it didn't make me jump 50 history items back to get to where I came from.
We don't need novelty accounts that regurgitate slogans and add nothing to the discussion on HN (whether this is sarcasm or not).
That number should be pretty surprising to me, but isn't. I was just looking at the Cover California estimated premiums[1] for 2017. Gold plans for a 40 year old (no family) run $500-$700/mo. Not too surprising that the not-for-profit org (Kaiser) is significantly lower in cost than Anthem.

1: https://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CoveredCA-2017-rate-book...
>A 2011 study by the consulting firm Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI)[28] estimated the total historical federal subsidies for various energy sources over the years 1950–2010. The study found that oil, natural gas, and coal received $369 billion, $121 billion, and $104 billion (2010 dollars), respectively, or 70% of total energy subsidies over that period

Over 60 years.
That's not true. Obamacare eliminated lifetime caps. Small and medium size companies often had $1 million lifetime caps but large companies have negotiating power and typically had no pre-existing condition exclusion periods and no lifetime caps (or something insane like $10 million). Under Obamacare all US health insurance plans have no lifetime caps and no pre-existing condition exclusions.
Visualizing data flowing through a data pipeline
Agree with that also, this was written 4 years ago when spring boot wasn't as popular.
I would be very cautious as once you offer 100% there is no going back. It may seem like a small cost when you have a small number of employees but as you grow the costs go up quickly and largely.
I don't know if you can bring a process back to the foreground using the
Gene Cernan flew on Apollo 10, the "dress rehearsal" for Apollo 11 (the first mission to land on the moon).

The command module for Apollo 10 was named "Charlie Brown" [0] who continuously had the football yanked before he could kick it[1]. A little joke from NASA, I think.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10#Mission_parameters

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=charlie+brown+football+yank
> The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
The ideal one would know why you were there if this was truly a passion of yours that you wanted to pursue.
I think what you're getting at is that work can be fulfilling. I'm sure loads of people here on HN have at some point had a project they wanted to pursue, but were never able to because doing so would mean losing the income of their office job, which they need to survive.

Having all your basic needs fulfilled solves this scenario. The only work being done is that driven by passion, and the ability to exercise those passions is more accessible to the typical person.
"Never measure page view or sign ups to validate your product/market fit."

Well, not always valid. Depending on your intent, these matrics, especially sign ups, might be proportional with your market fit.
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

These have to go in `~/.inputrc`, right?
Ive had both custom IEMs and custom earplugs. The sound isolation is generally better than nearly all foam tips, with some exceptions (ER6i, Er4p).

The real difference is comfort. I can wear customs all day without experiencing any ear fatigue. Cable micro-phonics are also much quieter.
why would I use this over something like postman or RESTClient?
Still prefer to run Win10 with Surfright/Sophos HitmanPro Alert.
From the Covered California rate sheet[1]. Year over year increases in region 4 (SF) for the for-profit plans is anywhere from 8% to 25%. Kaiser (whom I despise, but is a not-for-profit org) raised their rates between 1% and 8%.

1: https://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CoveredCA-2017-rate-book...
> you could tax software for the performed labour

Or you could issue new money and put it in circulation as BHI. That way the money hoarders and robot beneficiaries can't hide their money. Also tax all other values such as properties and shares, so they can't hide the value of their wealth by converting it into something else.

The issue with automation owners is that they want to get money for their products while not hiring people. Thus the cycle of money is broken. Money should circulate like water in nature, not accumulate in some place from where it can't escape. The automation owners should support BHI otherwise who's going to buy their products? They are going to be hit too when demand falls.

If you think from a game theory point of view, the automation owners should accept a loss in order to keep the system working, otherwise they have to take an even bigger loss. But they would prefer other people pay their taxes while they escape (so they lobby for advantages in law), a move based on greed - even though if everyone would do that it would mean they all lose. Similar to the tragedy of commons.
40 people isn't a "small town". 40 people is a hamlet. There are likely economies of scale for "The Machine" if it exists, so having one such machine for 40 people is outlandish. In any case, who wants to live in a hamlet/town of 40 people?

This whole treatment manages to ignore the entire service sector (which won't go away because of a magical "Machine"). Unless we're also positing robot teachers, doctors, cleaners, masseurs, ... this happily glosses over quite a large portion of what people actually do in the society we have now. Farming and manufacturing are not what they used to be.

It's not a bad thing to think about in general, but it's so far off base that it's a lousy starting point for a thought experiment (or an actual real-world project).
Same. I've used that combination for all the presentations I've given since starting at $CURRENT_JOB late in 2015, and have received nothing but compliments on same. I was a little concerned about getting "why didn't you use PowerPoint?" and the like, and prepared to respond with several substantive reasons (not least of which is how much faster org-reveal is!), but it didn't even come up.
>>>I would without a doubt to say the US is in its downfall as it didn't pick the priorities to fix the root of the problem.

The US is in a downward spiral because we didn't build a government funded $2 trillion bullet train? Are you serious?

>>>High-speed rail network is what people want - to get from point A to point B quickly.

Wrong. What people want is to telecommute. I don't want to get shoved into a bullet train every morning.
Global influence is not just about GDP (not sure if there's a power influential index for each country).

We all know American culture for heavily depended on automative and roads don't work for most countries, probably only work in US.
Tcl for Web Nerds
Interesting. Maybe we'll see an API we'll have to use to submit amount of "work units" our software does for tax purposes, under the penalty of fines or jail time if we fail to comply?
Thanks, jagger27. Touchpad is my priority right now. I'm just a CSS guy :)
And it's probably something like 20% of them.
Coroutines are a hack that is inferior to both real threads (OS supported, true concurrency) and delimited continuations (are functions that multiply instantiate, compose and recurse). Both of these mechanisms can easily simulate coroutines.

Many Common Lisp implementations have threads so effectively, Common Lisp de facto supports coroutines.
I wish they gave a source for the relationship between using these pronouns and telling the truth.

The explanation is given in the paper, citing another study. Thankfully it's not paywalled (hooray for open access!) As the HN article is a summary of the academic paper [1], it probably omitted the detail for brevity.

Here's what the paper says:

"The honesty of the status updates written by the participants was assessed
following the approach introduced by Newman, Pennebaker, Berry, and Richards
(2003) using LIWC. Their analyses showed that liars use fewer first-person
pronouns (e.g., I, me), fewer third-person pronouns (e.g., she, their), fewer
exclusive words (e.g., but, exclude), more motion verbs (e.g., arrive, go),
and more negative words (e.g., worried, fearful; Newman, Pennebaker, Berry, &
Richards, 2003)."

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/194855061668105...
Or with a hash-table lookup, left as an exercise to the reader.
If it meets the guidelines, I suspect this would be better posted as a "Show HN":

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> it needs to be the opposite of free

It doesn't need to be. And it won't be at first, but hopefully it can propagate in such a way that it can be. Also rocket ships is a straw man because they couldn't (and currently can't) be free.

> They will be used for good, they will be used for evil

I agree with you here, so education and peaceful culture will be key. Also a rapidly propagating cheap/free Machine so that it can start delivering the needs of those who might otherwise be drawn into malign ideologies based on inequality.
I recommend JVC's Marshmallow headphones. They are earplug earbuds. They are cheap, robust, and have a decent sound. I go through about two pairs a year but I am very hard on them.
Because it's a step in the process of making moon bases, and eventually Mars bases, asteroid bases, Jovian-moon bases, deep-space bases, and eventually interstellar bases economically viable.

The Earth is very small, and the universe is very large. Eventually, we're going to want to use more than an earth-sized corner of it. Why not start now?
Wait, what? Do you have a cite for that, because everything I've seen calls the meat the dog. This use is from maybe the 1880s when any sausage was called a dog.

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp
Ask HN: Simulation vs Generative Models - Any Difference?
I'm trying to get a handle on "Generative Programming"(GP) but AFAICT it appears to be no more than simulation via computer program, which has been around for decades (e.g., SIMULA language). Is there a difference? Here are some sites:

https://probmods.org/generative-models.html

http://rjida.meijo-u.ac.jp/prism/
As much as I love this idea I believe that it's unrealistic with today's tools. Let's just focus on machine learning/general ai for now.
NYC is one of the best system. It pretty much covers most of the city 24/7. I have yet to see a system that has similar coverage and frequency.
Coincidentally, I was looking at my Plantronics headset today before this news came out, and was amused at the fact that it looked so similar to the Mission Control headsets of the 1960s. I then discovered that this is because Plantronics made those NASA headsets, as well as the "Snoopy cap" flight gear the astronauts used in space.
Engineers Salary Data
I thought in ads the ad publisher can specify what appears there, so they can redirect you through external ad tracking services etc and still show their normal domain? (Can't find a reference for that right now, but that's what I remember from previous discussions about misleading ads)

Of course Google should validate those somehow, but it seems not unlikely someone could cheat that process.
I think the largest issue that tended to get in the way of this (because technically the rules still indicate politics is "off-topic") is the challenge of deciding where tech stops and politics begins, when topics like net neutrality and trade laws with copyright effects get involved. Or the difference between talk about solar startups and climate change deniers.

I personally don't think it's too hard to allow those grey areas a bit, but push away from political topics that don't have tech implications at all, but I think the moderators may have disagreed.

I did truly enjoy the political detox week. I'd like to see it back on occasion maybe. Especially right after elections.
I've read enough about space technology to have a bit of disbelief in your statement.

The technology to launch someone skyward is basically identical, the technology in the craft, while benefited by more modern computing (as well as enhanced material science), also largely identical.
I thought that 4k devices often had the ability to do this kind of up-scaling already?
Rust is more explicit about moving and scopes. It's currently very easy to see how long a value will live and where the destructor will run. This somewhat complicates that.

This is similar to vvanders' and steve's comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413084 ; such things lead to a more complicated mental model even if on the surface it looks simpler.
> If I can replace an intern with a Python script, does that script start having to pay social security too?

Literally, why would it? It's not (a) part of society nor (b) have needs that might be fulfilled by social security services.
to jlantunez (I cannot reply in your comment), better as I can see the footer now, but it is barely visible, the nav is still hidden and you should probably be listening to the scroll and then scroll the page depending on that, as that's the expected behavior on websites. on('scroll') probably doesn't work as you want to listen for intent, but google gave me really good results on this topic back in the day
The word "perceived" was not in the article title, and thus the claim is unchanged... whether the article title is accurate or not is open for debate :)
"Civilization is always older than we think, and below our feet were also men and women who lived and loved." -Will Durant
Yes indeed; for senior engineers base salary approaches $200k, excluding bonuses and RSUs/options. RSUs are in the $50-$200k/year range depending on many factors. The general expectation is a top-up at least 50% of signing RSUs per year each year, so as the vesting periods stack up you can end up earning more in stock in years 4+ than in salary.

YMMV on all this. A new college grad isn't going to get that kind of deal in most cases. It also helps to interview and get multiple offers. Once hired you're typically expected to work hard and demonstrate the value you add to the business.
In the real world, only one person owns the machine, and is able to undercut everyone else's labor in the name of "fairness".
Thank you! I can't point to a single source. There were some seed ideas, but I've been bouncing them off people for a long time and it's morphed a lot. HN and Reddit are great for building interesting worldviews iteratively.
"Novelty account" is an apt description. It's hard to judge these things without numbers, but have you noticed an increase in accounts of this type? Perhaps the past month or two?

Edit to add: To be clear, I'm referring to single-use or single-topic accounts in general.
> Is quitting the right next step?

Why do all these Entrepreneurial articles and stories promote quitting and going 'All in'.

If you develop the discipline and commitment and have the 'applied faith' that your product or startup idea will succeed (based on the parameters you set for success) then you should be able to do it nights and weekends.

Even Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder didn't straight up 'Quit' and work on wordpress full time. He was still working at CNet to pay the bills, and bootstrapped Wordpress with 10,000 $ that he saved from his day job and worked on it nights and weekends.

"I quit my day job and started my own company and make a good living" stories are very very few. The media only focussed on these success stories and not the other 99% that fail and have to go back to a day job, with a mountain of debt.
I've been messing around with their DeepTraffic simulation and reading their documentation about it at http://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/deeptraffic/. Can anyone provide a link to a solution for the simulation (preferably with an explanation)?
It's been long known to linguists that the Na-Dené and Eskimo-Aleut language families represent basically distinct migrations from the bulk of Native American languages. While Greenberg's lumping of everyone else into Amerind is very controversial, that there should exist such a clear gulf isn't. It seems pretty clear to most linguists that a three-migration model (perhaps more) is better supported by linguistic evidence than a one-migration model, particularly since the recent linking of Siberian languages to Na-Dené.

I recall learning about Beringia "pause" hypotheses in high school, although coastal migration theories were still presented as niche alternative theories back then.
How the U.S. Military Uses IRC to Wage War – Public Intelligence – 2013
An automation tax will reduce the inequality between owners of capital, who can buy robots, and those who cannot.
I think that's a positive thing.

The tax level should strike a balance that makes it worthwhile to automate something but the downsides (inequality) can be counteracted by the tax still.

Ideally, the same applies to tax on gasoline, smoking etc.
I thought German's also cram in 4 terms every year rather than 2 and a bit in the UK? It seem like Germans who were doing 4 years had covered more ground than a bachelors + 2 years of MSc in the UK.
Perhaps that's not the case across all courses/universities, but seemed to be the case from my experience with Mathematics Erasmus students (in both directions) and German PhD students.

Seems to me like the German system is very high quality, and that the UK let too many weak candidates in to University and so the first year (and every year) is getting easier to compensate...

I remember that this was the case with Scottish students (as Advanced Highers did not cover as much as A-levels) so they had to work much harder in their first year. Scottish friends seemed to be under the impression that the first year in Scottish Universities was much easier than UK equivalents...
I like "oo-zer" which is both easier to say and less confusable with "user".
I'm in favor of this type of technology because ultimately images of my face are public. you can just as easily scrape a photo of me walking down the street.

if you aren't breaking into my home (or other property), or forcing me to hand you something I would not normally hand you, then you can use whatever information you want.

good on them.
It's not as if franchisees can just choose to purchase whatever equipment they want. It all has to come from corporate, so corporate is the place to enforce security standards.