skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specifics of the American healthcare system aside, what leads you to believe that the problem is regulation? By essentially any metric, state provided (single-payer) healthcare is the best-known solution to the healthcare problem. Why is there any reason to believe that there's too much state intervention as opposed to, say, too little?
I'm not suggesting that anyone give up, I was suggesting that the EFF must feel despair in the context of their efforts. I would argue that there is more need than ever to fight, but that fight hasn't really materialized yet. Outside of places like HN, so few people appreciate that there even is a fight, and fewer care.

That may change, but until it does, the best you can do is educate people.
VM life
I was looking at the optical flow indicators and the road-tracking. Afaik any NN solution to those are immature if they work reliably at all. Your probably right that that the bounding boxes are probably NNs.
Yes, and he wouldn't endorse WebAssembly either (which is just a different, and even worse avenue towards DRM).
Happy and reassuring to have my conjecture rejected.
Is there any credible research that climate change is going to "end us"?
There's already a proliferation of minimally styled sites and blogs like this one. There's also a proliferation of tools—particularly static site generators—that are meant for creating that kind of site. Finally, there's a proliferation of browsers that "work on every device and platform." (Admittedly, they're not lightweight, but they're not that bad if the sites are lightweight.)

Can you elaborate on what creating a parallel, information-dense system would achieve? I mean, I agree the web could be more efficient and lighter weight, but there's nothing stopping us from doing that on the web.
We should be able to have open source robots.

Most AI tools are open source. Datasets as well, at least the research ones. 3D printers and CNC might help with making robot bodies.
I think the better question is, "Will front end development ever move away from CSS?"

In all honesty though, with ES6/7 writing programs in Javascript is a joy. CSS still sucks...
The thing with emotionally polarizing bills such as this is that politicians manage to put in other clauses and items we tend to overlook while participating in the battle. We win the issue but we don't notice other things they might have slid in. What an age we live in, cant trust our own representatives. Time to bring back the threat of lynching as a deterrent.
Yes. We moved away from Fortran, Cobol, and Basic when something better came along. Eventually we'll move away from Javascript too. Maybe it will be a language that spits Javascript, maybe it will be a language that runs on Chrome and Firefox. Right now I don't know what that language will be, but I'm sure it'll arrive one day
The MacBook Pro setup is faster again because I can use the mouse with my thumb without getting off the keyboard (and the trackpad works very well). Even with the trackpad I use on my desktop I have to move my hands backs and forward.
There's a method to that madness. Whether he is actually aware of it or not (I lean more towards the former), that stream-of-consciousness styled rhetoric is incredibly magnetizing to a large percentage of people. In my research on AI-driven political engagement, I found that while intensively complex generated argumentation can engage relatively sharper audiences without arousing suspicion, it is more computationally expensive, and those people do not have as much flex in opinion. The use of simpler, "like output of a Markov chain text generator" styled tools help separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of pliability.
One is a genius of entertainment. He's on TV five times a week. TV doesn't do him justice -- he's much more interesting in person. He always knows exactly what to say in any given situation.

One is a genius of memory. He memorized the entire Norton Anthology of Poetry when he was a child. (I'm not even kidding.) In college we all played a game where we would give him the first line of a poem. He would then supply the title of the poem, the author, the year it was published, and generally the rest of the poem, or at least the rest of the first verse. He's a college professor. You've never heard of him, but his students invariably love him. He changes people one at a time.

There are others in this group who are very accomplished in publishing, acting, comedy. I also know a guy whose name is associated with the creation ("discovery") of several elements. (I suspect he glows in the dark from all the radiation he has absorbed, but I haven't actually confirmed that.) Tough crowd if you're in a mood to compare yourself.
Huh. Right on, it works on mobile and not on desktop...

Edit: Turns out HTTPS Everywhere was rewriting it to use https://secure.politico.com rather than http://www.politico.com and that broke the link.
I suppose if this is passed it goes to the many reasons why I enjoy living my life trading with my own funds without the stability of holding a career with an employer. So far no drug tests is pretty much the winner but if genetic testing bill becomes law then I'm pretty sure that tops drug testing. I'm not a fan of background checks and I refuse to give references..but that's easy for me since I'm not applying to jobs. I wish more people collectively refused to participate in the whole reference thing as well. Nonetheless, I suspect this bill will become law and more things to occur to make working for employers even more invasive.
Huntsville has a strong tech presence due to aerospace and defense, or so I've heard.
What parents will want will be informed by the environment around them.

For example, when parents perceive the economy to be closer to zero sum, with clear "winners and losers", they tend to push their children more to get every edge they can in credentialing and jockeying for the best position for financial security (read: Tiger Moms).

Hard to say what said environment will be in the future when more tools are available.
What is wrong with people selling their organs?
Well, we'll ignore the fact that 100% of users use the App Store, given that it's how Apple distributes updates. I don't think that's what you meant.

Here's the real question for me: What percentage of users who regularly install 3rd party apps would prefer to install them via the App Store?

I bet it's a large majority.
> By essentially any metric, state provided (single-payer) healthcare is the best-known solution to the healthcare problem.

Except things like, you know, quality of care or satisfaction.

Single-payer healthcare beats the American implementation, which is not a high bar to clear.

There's a reason medical tourism to Mexico and India is so prevalent. Totally deregulated private doctors seem to kick the ass of state healthcare (in quality and wait times) and American healthcare (in cost). I wouldn't want to get, say, complicated brain surgery in Mexico; in that case, the tens of thousands of dollars premium you would pay, uninsured, for US care is probably worth it. But for routine medicine (dental care, minor surgery, etc.) it's medical tourism all the way. For certain kinds of medicine, people will even make medical visits to the US from socialized countries like Canada or France.
Ya, the bottom in the developed world, and especially in California, is much higher. In china you can find a moldy room in an apartment building basement (no window!), or even sleep in the restaurant you are working in (many people live in their shops in Beijing, and I don't mean above them in something like an apartment!). For food, there are plenty of places that cut corners to keep costs down, you'll live but you might get cancer later.

Pre-Katrina New Orleans was popular because survival was similarly cheap, not for the same quality of survival, but the bottom possible was lower.
Those are strong emotions. What do you hate about it so much?
Clarke addressed this question directly in his sequel "2010", in which Dr Chandra describes Hal's descent into madness as a "Hofstadter-Moebius loop", in which a lie from a trusted authority figure (the US government) contradicted HAL's instructions from another trusted authority, the crew, which introduced an insoluble logical impasse, resulting in a breakdown in HAL's executive function -- a homicidal level of frustration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#2010:_Odyssey_Two
Not only is it rare, but they do not mingle with peons.
I'm surprised nobody posted smoothlife! It's a continious version of GOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I
I'll second the Shortcat recommendation. Got a license pretty much as soon as I installed and used it (after the trial period, because I can be stingy). Between it and Alfred, I can do most everything I need from the keyboard.

For me, the most obvious/immediate "bang for the buck" is enabling bluetooth when I sit at my desk. If I don't, and use my Macbook from the living room, the distance is just awkward enough, on bad RF interference days, to continuously get the "Connection lost" and "Reconnected" message for the mouse.
I doubt that there would be a catastrophic collapse in any sort but instead a gradual boiling that we don't identify because we refuse to thoroughly look, where it either spirals into a harsh, violent reaction on behalf of the population or a shift in demographics that's only noticeable ten years later and then we wonder where all the blondes went. Sex crime is intertwined with shame, more so when race is involved. The UK had a pedophilia scandal stewing for years: https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Meat-Britains-Grooming-Scandal/d...
Haha. Anyone who has written more than a dozen lines of CSS is hopefully also familiar with the computer ignoring one directive in favor of the other. Try this:

.foo { display: inline; float: right; }

Better believe foo won't be inline! That’s per spec :)
Lets be real... GPS is a highly versatile tech that can keep time, coordinate global markets, makes Uber possible, enables GPS directions and let us not forget... also fairly useful in military applications.

A camera in your fridge, is a camera in your fridge. It serves one purpose, and it's the one you achieve by necessity every time you get anything from the fridge.
I would say it has certainly become elegant in recent years.

I imagine instead of alternatives we will see a lot of things being compiled from X down to WebAssembly. I see Rust/Go/Haskell targeting WASM in the near future.

WebAssembly has a lot of potential, but I think JS will have its place for a long time to come as it always has on the web. It makes me laugh whenever I think I might be writing Java for the frontend again, but it could actually happen!

Asking if TypeScript is good enough is kind of an odd question, good enough for what exactly? If you meant web development it certainly has its use case, but I think the discussion around TS and Flow is still open.
I suppose we could pair it with a causality loop and be here for the rest of our lives!
> it is unlikely one will earn returns that significantly outweigh the market in the medium to long term

Do you need to beat the market to become rich? What about just earning the market return (SPY, VTI, or similar), over a 30 or 40 year time period? I know plenty of older folks who 'got rich slow' this way. Granted, historical returns might not be there for millennials in the next few decades, but it's still the best bet there is.
I always come out intp or intj, depending on my mood when I take it. Very occasionally it shows extrovert, but not as variable as the p/j dichotomy. And I like Tennessee or rye. Had a bad experience with scotch in my youth, still haven't recovered. ;P
Cough cough https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
I hope everyone had fun because of my typo :)
I think they meant the kinds of regulation, not the fact of regulation itself. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if American healthcare had more regulation than the average European country.
Try C++ template metaprogramming or Java collections before generics.
You can buy a lot of 10-cent ramen for $5.
We have, it's called TypeScript.
By "end us" I mean end our civilization... extinction is unlikely.
So, you've never met a poor person that's also responsible?

While you probably are poor people at Starbucks, most of them don't go there.
We used a tool called Simple Licenses. It gives you a package with all the license and permit applications you need to start your business. They make it really simple by providing a custom report that has detailed descriptions of all the licenses, fees and contact information of the government agencies and easy to follow how to apply instructions.

The pricing is very reasonable considering the value of the report. you can check it out here https://simplelicenses.com
works with lynx
Then maybe you want a kid who doesn't sleep much, has a high drive, and low empathy. That assumes you want success uber alle though, what if you want your kid to believe that handling poisonous snakes is the key to salvation, or something like that?

Then you might need to breed a very different kind of mind.
Authorities Question CIA Contractors in Connection with WikiLeaks Dump
This article seems to support my suggestion.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/declining-profitability-for-...

Quoting the conclusion of the referenced paper:

"Each future halving of the Bitcoin block reward will narrow the range of profitable entry for
new Bitcoin miners considerably.
The stronger relative position of incumbents compared to that of new
entrants supports further consolidation of Bitcoin mining. Consequently, the distributed Bitcoin ledger, the blockchain, may become more vulnerable to attack, and its
trustless nature may ultimately even be destroyed."
Well keep in mind it's often not a choice for consumers with some appliances. For example try to buy a non-Smart TV right now that is > 28" from a store; most models are going to have IoT features, web and microphone mostly, always on whether you like it or not.

It's not that people don't understand the implications of the IoT [1], but they often find the choice of do without more costly than do with IoT.

[1] I'll grant most probably won't understand how a lightbulb lets some script kiddie make the network shitty for a few hours or days, but even then if the people understood the why/how they wouldn't really get it in full.
The Power Nipple!!!
You can compile code to run on this universal computer:

http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Spartan_universal_computer-constr...
Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
I check hacker news daily. Is there any other blogs which provides good technology content daily basis ?
For a start we need to get rid of this ad driven model. But this is not going to happen because people are addicted to free. Its like a drug.
Loved your post, regretted reading that reply.
I don't see anything on the horizon that would be a good JS replacement.

At the moment, frontend libraries like React, and the new ES6 features is the best we have.

WebAssembly will allow other languages to run in the browsers, but how it will work is still unclear.

The only other option I've heard of is Elm. I haven't used it, but many people claim that it might be a good JS replacement. Though I don't know if it offers enough of an advantage to cause everyone to switch. If anyone has more information or opinions - please share.
> Yeah, like dealing with "this" keyword or type coercion in JS is not the ugliest thing ever in the history of Programming languages

Try python. Python's handling of this/self makes javasacript look like the most amazing thing ever.
There's nothing wrong with having a filter. If I want to have a deeply technical discussion that requires a decade+ of speciality knowledge to understand, then so be it, that discussion isn't for everyone. Being on the edge of a knowledge domain is difficult enough as it is. Pushing the boundaries of my own knowledge requires like-minded individuals, and stopping to explain kills the flow.

There are plenty of other times when a more open, informal setting is appropriate, and beginners and journeymen are welcome. But not every time.
Important part:

"Investigators probing who may have provided WikiLeaks with classified information about the Central Intelligence Agency’s purported computer-hacking techniques are zeroing in on a small number of contractors who have worked for the agency and may have been disgruntled over recent job losses, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Authorities on Thursday questioned a handful of contractors working in at least two locations in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., these people said. Law-enforcement officials said no arrests had been made, but one person familiar with the investigation said it was “rapidly unfolding.”

This person added that a digital trail has pointed authorities, at least initially, to a team of software developers working with the CIA’s Engineering Development Group. The group designs tools that, according to the documents released this week by WikiLeaks, the CIA uses to break into smartphones, personal computers and televisions connected to the internet. The more than 8,000 pages of documents that WikiLeaks disclosed appear to have been taken last December from a server that the Engineering Development Group uses, this person said, and that “only a few contractors would have access to.”

More than a dozen companies work for the CIA on hacking projects, the bulk of them at a facility near Chantilly, Va. It wasn't clear which companies the people who were questioned worked for. In recent months, there has been talk of “bad blood” in the small world of CIA contractors who are vital to the agency’s hacking projects, the people familiar with the probe said. One group of contractors recently had been working for the CIA overseas and expected to be given new jobs with the agency in the U.S., but their positions were later eliminated, one person said.

“There were definitely disgruntled people internally,” this person said, adding that he believes these individuals may have been among those questioned by investigators."

Click from tweet worked for me (no paywall):

https://twitter.com/shaneharris/status/840794112907497472
Why are you against references?

My current job didn't require drug tests or references. Just resume + whiteboard coding.
I haven't looked at ES6/7, and its true that any language in the wrong hands can be ugly. But there's a lot wrong with JS besides how it interfaces with the DOM[1]. Which is funny because it was originally conceived as a browser scripting language[2].

And JS beating flash and java applets may be more a result of market forces (Apple) and the lack of better alternatives.

Brendan Eich designed JS in 10 days for the early era of the web, which is very different today. Its both a testament to the language and the hacks on top of it that its stayed in use this long. But maybe its time to move on?

[1] https://medium.com/javascript-non-grata/javascript-is-a-dysf...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Beginnings_at_Netsc...
>> affordable housing but you choose to live in California despite the financial burden, it must be because you think it has greater intrinsic value (weather, culture, community, etc).

Agreed. In addition, migration and re-establishing a new life in a new place is stressful and not cheap.
use ES6, Babel, and ===
Always comparing,never evaluating against an outside standard. We'll never break the n log(n) barrier
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Amazing it's still under development. And that they're keeping the tradition of forever approaching 1.0.0
Funny how my evidence that directly refutes your claim is getting down-voted.

> I believe that a retail trader can 'make money' on ETrade about as much as the average joe (or even intelligent joe) can beat Deep Blue at chess - which is not.

If you bought at the worst time possible right before the crash and just held SPY, you'd be up 81% not including dividends. I'd say an "average joe" can manage that.
With ES6, the only thing I'm missing in Javascript is static typing. Other than that, it has become a very nice language. There are some ugly sides, as in every language, but for the most part you can simply opt out of using these parts.
> In fact, Obamacare (which significantly mitigates the healthcare related costs of changing jobs)

The ACA doesn't all that significantly affect the healthcare-related impact of switching jobs (it slightly mitigates the healthcare related cost of being a difficult-to-insure individual and moving from a job that provides a group plan to one that doesn't), and the parts of it that did have some impact on that were have not been in place long enough to have substantially affected people's expectations and behavior.
how about a voluntary one? Let people be authenticated and let people see how many followers are authenticated or not.
Where do disruptive ideas come from? (2012)
Registered an account just to say "Me too". I've been on this rotating cycle for several years at this point (so can't really tell how it might affect depression). It's remarkable how similar the timing is too... I go around the clock about every month or so. Though I don't think I could stay on normal time even if I wanted to. Eventually I'll have a night of insomnia, where I overshoot my usual pattern by probably 6 hours. I've seen it mentioned before as the sleep disorder "non-24". It's normal to me, but it does feel like a disability by times.
World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee targets fake news
"Screw IE" has become, "screw es3", I love it.
Honestly JavaScript is not so bad but I could see multiple things evolving web development pretty significantly.

1. WebAssembly is cool but can't currently replace JavaScript. Now if the standard could get in gear and go a bit faster and work towards being the Java Bytecode / MSIL of the web? Then there would be zero reason to NOT develop in whatever language you want that compiled down to that. Yeah there is transpiling to JavaScript but that is more of a hack than anything; if you have to debug in an environment without source maps then it sucks hard core the further away you are from JavaScript.

2. The separation of HTML, CSS and JavaScript kinda sucks. CSS can do a lot but not everything, your HTML structure needs to be a certain way for some CSS to work correctly so the two are tied far more together than in the past. I'd like to see something eventually combine the two because let's face it, beyond basic things I almost never see the "swap a stylesheet to make everything different". Seems more of a novelty than a practical thing in my opinion.

3. I think the upcoming web component standards are going to make module web development a ton easier but the standards have been moving at a SNAILS pace. Poylmer's polyfills are great but don't cover everything and is extra overhead. When browsers support these natively it's going to make things so much easier to create 1 component that can end up being used in any web application regardless of framework.
Ask HN: Share your personal website
I'm curious to look at some cool examples of programmer's personal websites.
Spectacle for Mac has this feature, too.
Devs are certainly trying to make CSS not suck. It seems the number of CSS inline style, document.createElement('style'), etc libs are growing each month. Some library will hopefully hit the nail on the head for this problem in the coming years.

The first project I worked on where I was able to isolate all my styles by component was eye opening. It becomes less like CSS and more like Androids XML styling.