skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Browsers already support that. Good look convincing managers/clients/designers that they're sufficient on their own though.

The real problem is UI. Most of these plugins are changing the UI of forms to something that looks fancier (and more consistent) than the defaults.
Well, that's an option, but I think reducing the radioactive fallout of coal plants by dropping nukes on them would be counter-productive.
There is a beautiful introduction in the book They Became What They Beheld by Edmund Carpenter, who was a student of Marshall McLuhan back in the day. The relevant part I'm thinking of:

> If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.
>Those things weren't created primarily to give people work

They absolutely were.

They were created under the auspices of the Public Works Administration (originally Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works) - part of the 1933 New Deal:

https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/1...

"Functions: Administered a comprehensive public works program to promote and stabilize employment."

>If no one needs to commute to work in Manhattan, then there is no need for a Lincoln Tunnel. If no one has business meetings or disposable income for leisure travel, then LAX and LaGuardia would be idiotic.

That does not change the fact that these infrastructure works were created primarily to give the unemployed jobs and wouldn't have existed without it.

>We do see this kind of stuff - huge infrastructure projects with no users - in China.

Some of the infrastructure is like that but most has enough users to justify its existence. Their infrastructure-building binge isn't crazy. Our intentional lack of infrastructural improvement (which is entirely about artificially throttling employment and wage growth) is crazy.
Have you seen Zenos?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenos_Cars#Zenos_E10S

No it's not like Ferrari but the concept seems cool. Build carbon fiber cars with Ford engines and sell for a good price. No roof or openable doors though.
"I don't sell cars; I sell engines.
The cars I throw in for free since
something has to hold the engines in."

People never quite get the ideas behind Enzo Ferrari machines.
Backprop is expensive. Not sure what the revolutionary aspect is here. Smells a bit like the Theranos of AI.
Indeed - the Center for Media and Democracy's wiki article on US coal mining has some interesting charts:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coal_and_jobs_in_the_Un...

Starting in 1900, with 448,581 miners producing 268,684,000 short tons, the output's more or less risen steadily to almost four times that total amount, but the number employed in 2013 was 80,209, reflecting about 20x the productivity of 1900.

As far as the point of employment goes, Wyoming claimed a relatively modest total of 6,673 mining (surface and underground) jobs in 2013.
> are there wealthy dependent people?

I would say yes. Well, maybe not dependent but not independent.

Some people with large incomes are still up to their eyeballs in debt, or at least not living within their means.

IMO financial independence requires living within your means until the point where you never need to work again to continue that lifestyle for the rest of your life.
Using f.lux or other similar software gives some of those advantages too.

https://justgetflux.com/
He makes a living being a partisan Republican. That means he can't be impartial.
The fact that it is an international border makes all searches reasonable by definition, I believe.
Uncanny Vision[1] have similar computer vision and deep learning libraries for ARM chipsets.

http://www.uncannyvision.com/
What form is that? It certainly isn't a landing card. Maybe a visa application, but the number of western country with visa free or visa on arrival is huge.
Technology vs. the Middle Class
The market demand will naturally require that all shared hosts start offering some sort of free HTTPS as webmasters such as yourself will simply be required to migrate somewhere where $hosting + $HTTPS is cheaper. This means shared hosts may start integrating with services like Let's Encrypt to save costs.

In fact you could be proactive and announce to your shared host that for this reason you will be relocating. Let them know there will be a trend of other webmasters relocating for the same reason.

As more and more website features (passwords, geolocation) start requiring HTTPS by browsers we will naturally approach the point where HTTPS is free and ubiquitous, at which point everybody wins.

Also, you've had a one year notice that this was going to happen:
https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/01/28/no-more-passwords-...
> People don't want just any cheap housing. They want proximity to their work, in a good school district for their kids, with quick access to transportation, cool restaurants and coffee shops within walking distance. The supply of those will still be constrained.

The supply of those is artificially constrained. There is no practical limit to housing density when you can build vertically.

The problem is you have people who just took out a $1,000,000 mortgage and would sooner murder you with an axe than see the value fall to $600,000 because the local housing supply increased. But if you have something to exert upward pressure on nominal housing prices then you can build new housing stock and have nominal prices stay the same. Inflation and inflation-like effects are great for this because it means nominal housing prices stay the same while real housing prices fall, which is the only real way for more people to own a home.
>Didn't he get fired from King's College for cheating on his wife?

Education institution that fires people based on their personal life choices that don't affect their work? And I thought we were done with this crap in the 21st century.
This is basically a manual version of Stallman's email-web-browsing daemon. See https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html and search for "I am careful in how I use the Internet".
Just download Wireshark and you'll have an easy to use tool that'll show you the traffic.
Why do you think they would exclusively manufacture components in the US?
Practically you were on Irish soil. Technically you were in a foreign trade zone of the United States :P
Has this been officially launched? There is no word about it on the Asus USA website, I have searched other Asus global sites with no results either. I couldn't see the Asus logo on any of the pictures published on CDC.

Lifehacker and CDC are sufficiently reputable sources but isn't the above a bit strange?
UBI still will have some short term profiteering effects. A slum lord who knows his tenants are uniformly $1K/mo richer is going to raise the rent short term. You seem to be assuming everyone is automatically acting in their long term best interest. "Oh neat, I'm going to raise the rent $500 and plow it into new apartments and renovations so five years from now I'm still competitive!" Vs. "I'm going to raise it $500 and buy a BMW!" I just don't see it not happening. I agree that long term it will hash out.
> Personal experience. I've been trying to hire moderately competent, junior software engineers would be able to write and optimize C++ without much supervision. They're now more rare than the Sasquatch.

Are you certain they're rare? As opposed to not responding to your hiring ads, for whatever reason?

I do think the percentage of programmers who care about CPU cycles has gone down; I would totally agree with that. Decades ago it used to be that you had to care, it wasn't an option. Today, for most work, it's simply no longer a requirement to worry about cycles. BUT, I've hired lots of kids in recent years who knew plenty about compilers and assembly and caching, so I have a general feeling that they're out there. I would speculate that a lot of the kids who can deal with C++ and performance issues are interested in games...

> ...it definitely pays to know what's going on. Otherwise it's not software engineering, it's cargo cult science and rain dancing, prone to fall apart at the first sign of difficulty. It's like having a certified car mechanic who doesn't know how to open the hood.

It does pay to know what's going on, I totally agree. In some sense literally, as the deeper you go, the more "expert" and "high paid" you will expect the technician to be.

Your analogy to car mechanics is apt in the sense that what you're talking about has already happened in both the auto industry and the tech industry due to increasing complexity of the systems over time -- the first line or two of support people don't fix the internals for you and often don't know how (yet they do "fix" most problems). Even the higher paid expert technicians at car dealers can't fix a huge portion of the problems anymore because the problems are software. Same goes for very smart and very capable QA engineers - they know how to test systems, they know how to find which system is broken, they know how to reproduce issues, but the system may still be a black box. And the engineers writing your core app code still can't generally fix issues in their libraries or operating systems. And so on. So, I personally wouldn't go so far as to say it's cargo cult science or lacking software engineering, we just have more layers than we used to. We can and do engineer at one layer on top of other layers that are black boxes, almost nobody can claim otherwise. But, as you pointed out, you do need people staffing those multiple layers.
The only organizations that don't abandon projects are the ones that never took them on to begin with (or the ones designed around a specific project). It's not a for-profit vs non-profit distinction.

In this case, unfortunately, being in the high priority list of the FSF doesn't mean much. It's a list of stuff they'd like to see being developed, not actually a list of projects being actively supported with funding or developers' time.
Don't mandate a programming language for you assignments

I'd do them all in highly optimised x86 Asm, just because I can. ;-)

Not all students start at the same level; making the choice of language a free-for-all is just going to stretch that disparity even more. The ones at the top will naturally find ways to entertain themselves more, and the ones at the bottom will have no less idea of how to do things than copy-pasting code they found somewhere else (if the language doesn't matter, it makes that even easier...)

We were writing an interpreter using C++ which I'd rather have done in some Lisp-like languages.

On the other hand, I believe that doing something in an "unconventional" language for it is one way of improving your skills since you have to then apply true creativity and knowledge instead of just following an existing solution. Using a language which makes the task easy or even trivial doesn't really benefit the learning process.
In house software isn't an issue: internal staff are not going to go away and use a competitor if they see a security warning. They're just going to learn to live with it.

As for saying "small companies", I really don't see how this has an impact on smaller companies more than others. Certs are free, and trivial to install for any public domain (others in the comments above have mentioned valid problems with non-public domains, which remain to be solved but they are somewhat less affected by this feature anyway).
You're very welcome. By the way, what do you mean with 'pays for GitLab hosting'?
How Ad Campaigns Fail
Coffee Shops etc. already run on pretty low margins -> they'd be out of business.

Possibly, assuming nothing else changes, and they can't raise their prices or automate so as to require less labor. But others are claiming that the problem with UBI is that all the prices would go up, presumably including those at the coffee shop. And if everyone in the neighborhood had another $1000 per month to spend, don't you think that at least some of the coffee shops would see increased business?

The value of the 'art' getting created is significantly lower than the 'service' they provide making coffee - or else that art would be getting created.

Maybe, but this bothers me in two ways.

First, it assumes only those with the surplus money to buy art are allowed to determine the value of art to society, and that those will the inability to pay for art have no say. Isn't it fair to allow these non-rich art lovers to democratically vote for policies that result in more art?

Second, it implies that the value of art can be completely judged by its market value of at the time it was created. The more creative geniuses we have serving coffee to rich folk, the fewer works of art we'll have in the future. Obviously most artists aren't geniuses, but I think this tradeoff at least merits some consideration.

if their are were 'worth something' to you and I, we'd be buying it. We're not. But we will however hire them to make coffee for us.

There is lots of art I appreciate and would like to encourage, but I don't have money to support it. I've never felt comfortable paying someone to make me hot beverages --- I'd much prefer self-service and greater automation.

I don't care what my neighbours 'aspirations' are.

Perhaps that's the big difference in our views. I care tremendously about whether those sharing my society feel they are living fulfilling lives. UBI might not be the best way to accomplish this, but I guess I hadn't considered that you might not consider this to be a benefit.
DUPE: + OP engaging in click-bait by changing title and posting again.

Previous click-bait Fri 13. Jan : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392292
The US government (via DARPA, NASA, University grants etc.) invented the internet, stealth fighters and MANY MANY other leading edge technologies that private companies then took advantage of. In other words, companies that you might admire (Google, Boing etc.) would not exist without the government investing in blue sky research.
That guy couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag O.o
DUPE: Previous discussion [Fri the 13th] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392292
Learning a codebase requires fast navigation. ctags or a good IDE help with that.
Obviously the day of hiking wears you out, but I end up lying in my tent listening intently and waiting for animal and maniac attacks!
Why Kagglers Love XGBoost
Actually what I meant was the GP said it was an anonymous post, I don't think automatically correlating random usernames to real people is that cheap except in specific cases where username = real name.
I am pretty sure this is about optimizing the graphs of trained models. That is, training is not freed from "the prison of supercomputers".
[Learned helplessness vs perseverence; in dogs, rats and humans]

Seligman called these differences our explanatory style. Some people were naturally inclined to believe that bad things will keep happening to us and that they are our fault. Some were naturally inclined toward the opposite—bad things are happening now, but they’ll stop and they’re not our fault. The former were those who were prone to depression; the latter were those who tended to bounce back. Seligman believed that humans, like dogs, could be taught to become more resilient, a phenomenon he called learned optimism.
…
In 1984, he published a review of the evidence. First, he and his colleagues had found that the way people explained bad events to themselves really did link closely to depression risk. It was true in students, in people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, in children, and, predictably, in depressed patients. And, importantly, training people to change their explanatory habits—to more narrow, external, and transient—seemed to help them overcome existing depression and, in some cases, prevent its onset even when other risk factors were high.

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/theory-psyc...
Even Borland Turbo C++ from 1992 did this: https://youtu.be/RWavTVo7D3M?t=496
Redesigning an agency website – trying to outsmart your older self
Large Hadron Collider: Recreating the Beginning of Time
This is actually a good example. The password clearly isn't protecting anything. It's a tutorial on how to make a password field! Nobody is going to put a valuable password in there.
I approach it the same way rocket engineers did:

Well now I know another way not to do it

And I am a big stoic fan, the only adversity I face is that I wish to control me. I choose to not let it control me and realize that I can overcome or learn what I need to.

The key to things is discipline, spend a certain amount of time focusing each day, commit to it in small batches at first and continue each day. If you go off the rails, give yourself permission to resume the next day without beating yourself up over it.

Beyond that there really isn't anything more to it. Basically be a stubborn son of a bitch to yourself and commit to doing it. The only way to fail is not to try.
The EU regulations and tariffs alone would be too much of a headache, especially if the phones and/or components are eventually exported outside the EU. A better idea would be to setup a factory in Eastern Europe.

North Africa is another great option in my opinion: e.g., Morocco or Tunisia. Cheap skilled labor with a growing economy, yet still close to Europe and (relatively) North America.
"Hard work" is utterly orthogonal to what your comment's parent is describing. The kind of "hard work" that many blue collar people do would leave most programmers crying in pain and frustration before the first day is out.

On the whole, people whose job perks include the fully-staffed, all-day gourmet cafeterias, paid gym memberships (if not on-site gyms and massage therapists!), and six figure salaries for sitting in meetings, thinking kinda hard, and then tapping away at a keyboard for a bit (yes, I'm being reductive; so are you) have exactly fuck-all grounds to call out anyone else about "hard work".
Somehow honesty does not seem the most salient characteristic of major car manufacturers.
If they partner in massive $7 billion high volume display factory that mostly produces display's for Apple, it's unlikely that they go trough the effort to replicate all that special tooling and quality management for other markets.
Those early years up to 2002 when the budget cuts occurred were some of the best video game journalism and industry insight I had come across.

It just wasnt the same after the core group of writers and editors left.
I did, and it's lickety-split. I'm home!
The bulk of Wyoming is quite desolate and the touristy places have high real estate costs. Your ideas wouldn't help Wyoming citizens.
IMHO "wrong" being mostly the opinion of the evangelists who think C++ is a completely different language, and have been trying to push it in that direction, but it's still mostly C at the core with a thick layer of abstraction/indirection on top. Don't believe all the hype. "Climbing the ladder of abstraction" is the best way to learn how everything works.
Insecure websites could get around this by not marking the fields as password fields but using javascript to make them appear so to the user.
There are a couple of things that make this more difficult: The fact that strangers and family members alike can look strikingly similar and the fact that a lot of folks have the same or similar names. Heck, it could even be that a son has the same name as the father: Father has a younger profile picture, and the son uses that picture after the father dies.

Until the systems can sort this stuff out, these things are simply going to be an issue.

It isn't even that the profiles are necessarily fraudulent. I know there are plenty of young (and older) occultists that keep two seperate accounts, in part to be able to keep that part of their life private and away from extended family and work. This happens in other circles as well.
"Nowadays anyone with enough money to bother can make themselves a 'drone submarine' to track the nuclear subs out of Scotland and to wherever they hide in the ocean depths. "

Your drone is going to have to quite a piece of kit:

* This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Lyubov_Orlova floated around the Atlantic for some time and sort of vanished. A sub goes somewhat faster than a drifting ship and has three dimensions to play with.

* It will have to surface to relay the tracked sub's position or deploy buoys or something

* It will have to be able to match the tracked sub's endurance

There are probably some mitigations for the above but if your drone loses its quarry it is useless. If it is detected then it will be useless and in pieces - it will almost certainly end up in a fishing net or some other plausible accident.

I doubt GCHQ are really fussed with your drone given that they are not part of the Royal Navy. I doubt the RN are too bothered with your drones but mitigate for it anyway as part of the broader effort to secure the effectiveness of the subs.
That's a good question but it's not necessarily something Trump controls directly (nor should he), it is more likely up to the local government/state where the plant is located who could work on incentivizes. That's what happened with the Carrier deal in Indiana largely because that was Pence's state and he could help directly.

This is how it happens in China too. The article mentions that a Chinese city would help invest $8.7 billion, rather than the central state.

> On Dec. 30, Gou announced that Osaka-based subsidiary Sakai Display Products and the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou would jointly invest 61 billion yuan ($8.77 billion) in an advanced panel facility.

And Pennsylvania trade office is working with Foxconn on another plant.

> In addition to the proposed display facility, Gou said Foxconn plans a new molding facility in the U.S., with the state of Pennsylvania a possible site following investment discussions with local officials. A representative from the Pennsylvania trade office attended Foxconn's party Sunday.

It's typically not the exec branches job to set up those deals. But it is great that Trump is willing to get on the phone to help get the deals done, that's seems unprecedented in recent years.

Most likely Trump would be focusing on the trade policy more generally or working with congress to reduce federal regulations. The Dept of Commerce could help promote the idea of operating in America. As well as via the Treasury Dept to simplify the tax code. And Congress to reduce taxation. Again this would apply to all companies, or whole industries, and (most likely) not give any individual companies special benefits in return for opening up shop.
It likely won't be for Apple exclusively and it's certainly not the only source of displays for Apple. Several suppliers are investing in OLED production in order to meet Apple's supply requirements.
I live in a ski town on the North side of Yellowstone and we're quite happy to cater to the tourists. There is nothing demeaning about providing good service that people are willing to pay for.
> People don't respect imitation. Few people want to drive a car [...] for those who can't afford Ferraris.

I thought so too, but on the other hand, the success of cheap wannabe SUVs like the Qashqai shows that the "aspirational" market can be very rewarding if you can find the right balance.

It's a bit like nobody wants an iPhone-like chinese replica, but quality Android "slabs" can be very desirable.
> true innovation is really hard and takes a lot of time and resources

It's like Bell Labs, but instead of helping the phone system make money, we help free software take over the world. That's a really interesting idea. I wonder how the technical staff are going to avoid starvation?