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Why Vinyl’s Boom Is Over
Worse; Paint is part of a lot of troubleshooting 'screenshot' processes; precisely because it IS easy to use and is /already included/.

Quickly taking a look at the most used products where I work...

MS Office Installer https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

MS Word (I stopped here) https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

Darn, it would be nice if MS was forced to break up in to different product divisions so that their Office product would be released on various platforms.
"The Wonder Years" is another one...
> I actually just subscribe to Netflix' DVD service. I get films in much higher quality delivered every other day

That probably doesn't help with things that aren't on DVD/Blu-Ray, such as some of their original content. I don't think you can get Stranger Things in that format yet.

> I'm not interested in installing DRM platforms on my computer

I believe the majority of people don't watch Netflix on their computer, but instead on set-top devices connected to their TV's That may also include hybrid solutions like Chromecast, where something may be installed on a local computer (likely a phone) as well, but those generally already have DRM platforms installed...
Why do we need to explicitly design architectures such as the "imagination encoder" the article describes? A proposed long term goal of deep learning is to have AI that surpasses human cognition (e.g. DeepMind's About page touts that they are "developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how"), which was not explicitly designed in terms of architectural components such as an "imagination encoder".

Shouldn't imagination and planning be observed spontaneously as emergent properties of a sufficiently complex neural network? Conversely, if we have to explicitly account for these properties and come up with specific designs to emulate them, how do we know that we are on the right track to beyond human levels of cognition, and not just building "one-trick networks"?
On LISP, by Paul Graham. LISP was the second language I learned in college, but only after 6 years programming Java and C# that I came back and really learned LISP. It was when I realized that I was doing everything wrong. For example design patterns exists because OO has serious problems that we don't find in a functional programming language and you only see this when you understand both paradigms.
Yeah, I used Backtrack to show my brother that his big complex password didn't mean anything if he was using WEP (this was quite a while ago).

On a pretty standard laptop (intel chipset/CPU/GPU/Wireless) it booted right up with no effort.
Nevertheless I appreciate his efforts and just bought his book, because having an idea is way different from putting own money in it. He puts his own money to neuroscience, and does not compete with real scientists for government grants.

Other millionaires may buy yachts, or just spread "novel" ideas (e.g. Hyperloop idea by St. Elon) without investing their own money.
How about contacting a consulting agency such as http://www.tripleco.com/find-tech-jobs/ or similar agencies?
That's a dream world that's always a few decades away.

Do you really know what it takes to make something? Like something as simple as a hammer?

Iron ore must be located. Will we have autonomous robots scan the earth for ore deposits?Then a quarry must be set up, explosives must be brought in, mining equipment is needed.

Now step back. We need robots to make explosives, transport them to the mine, drill holes to put them in, take the explosives out of the packaging, insert them into holes, blow it, clear the rubble and decide if it's time to process the debris or just move it.

Now step back again. You need robots the find the materials to make the explosives, to package them up and deliver them to the factory.

Now step back again. You need robots to make and maintain all these other robots.

Despite the ease of robots doing everything there is still a finite amount of resources on earth, so some sort of economic triage is needed to decide if iron ore gets shipped to the hammer factory or another factory. I guess that would be some sort of AI?

The sheer scale of making a simple hammer from scratch with nothing but robots is immense. We are way, way, way further away than you think.

The future is humans and robots working together.
[Part II]

We use the 2nd Amendment (Cryptography is still classified as munitions by the State Department) to protect your 1st Amendment rights on the Internet. Yet we cannot protect you against alphabet soup agencies such as the NSA and the FSB. It's not that our hands are tied, it's that this isn't the 1990s anymore and cyberwarfare and cybercrime are a nation-state ping-pong game. They are above our threat model, they are one layer of abstraction above us legally speaking, and we do not have contingency plans against them. If anything, being an American non-profit NGO, they are required to protect us as we are an American legal entity. From our experience whatever data they are seeking (depending on importance), they will obtain one way or another. We are not statists either; we simply think a well-calibrated threat model is paramount to running a venture like ours. Last but not least, they themselves may be users of our service to conduct their job online discretely. Note that we are not here to fight the man on your behalf. If you use our service to send bomb threats to universities, we will hunt you down.

What we do protect you against is "Snoopy". Snoopy could be your ISP DJ'ing your DNS requests. Snoopy could be your housemates snooping on the Wifi network or running a rogue AP attack. Snoopy could be your boss or employer blocking certain websites. Snoopy could be services that are georestricted to certain areas for no reason at all. We offer quasi-bulletproof anonymity and privacy on the Internet. Snoopy could be your university banning services like Spotify. Snoopy could be the rest of the world charging Australia 30%+ extra on all services / products because Australia is a continent. Snoopy could be your mobile service provider obstructing VoIP or Skype traffic on their data network. Snoopy could also be your TV provider not happy with your Netflix technicolored bits traversing their wires, and so must be throttled down. We are anti-DPI yet use DPI as well for the benefit of our users (QoS for instance).
At one time, Google had such an office here in the Phoenix area (I think it actually located in Tempe or Chandler); they closed it after a few years ostensibly because they couldn't find enough workers who met their standards.

So maybe it's a chicken/egg problem; they'd love to set up such offices, but they can't find the workers they need. The workers they need are all in California or some other similar, more liberal-outlook place (Arizona as a whole, and Texas, and a lot of the rest of these desert places are mostly very conservative, unfortunately) - and they don't want to move to such places.

I don't know how you change this quickly. I don't think you can. I'm wondering if it is this divided political and social culture wars attitudes etc that is making this a gordian knot to figure out...?
"Opens in a matter of...minutes!"
Google confirms testing auto-play videos in the search results
If a man who couldn't even get away with some consensual foolin' around with an intern without it becoming global news had access to an untraceable assassination force capable of removing people with impunity, how do you explain the fact that so many of his enemies are still alive?

This one fails the smell test, hard.
Refactoring. If I could shove that book down every coder's throat in the world I would. Or, if I could even just get them to use extract method like ... half the times they should I'd consider that to be a major historical achievement.
How feasible would running a mailing list (say 10k subs, one email/week) be off your setup?
Probably testing something like Tmobile's bingeon. Mobile bandwidth is tightly rationed but video providers to a terrible job being efficient. It's one of the few legitimate uses of throttling IMO.
Stealing and generally lacking a moral compass helps, too.
What on earth does it have to do with religion?
Newsletter of Materials and Processes Used in Product Design
If you like Julia Evans style you may also like Charity Majors aka @mipsytipsy on twitter https://charity.wtf/

Also I use the open source Django project Newsblur as my RSS reader, and follow Samuel's blog: http://blog.newsblur.com/

A couple others I like:

https://watirmelon.blog

https://martinfowler.com
Even if 101% of your electricity is coal generated, you are head of the game with EVs.

My gen-1 Volt travels about 27 miles on the electricity/energy it takes to refine one gallon of gas. Basically, if you stopped refining gas, you could power almost all of the EVs on the road with the same energy.
Lyft Confessions: A woman kicked out of her home
What's Next for Our Programming Languages?
What makes you think we invent systems like capitalism at all?

If you could point out that you can read this, that would be great.
I once used make to jury-rig a fairly complex set of backup jobs for a customer on a very short notice. Jobs were grouped and each group was allowed to run a certain number of jobs in parallel, and some jobs had a non-overlap constraint. The problem was well beyond regular time-based scheduling, so I made a script to generate recursive makefiles for each group that started backups via a command-line utility, and a master makefile to invoke them with group-specific parallelism via -j.

File outputs were progress logs of the backups that got renamed after the backup, so if any jobs failed in the backup window, you could easily inspect them and rerun the failed jobs just by rerunning the make command.

Fun times. Handling filenames with spaces was an absolute pain, though.
I wrote about how I learned to get consulting leads: http://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-le...

TL;DR - Decide who is your ideal client. Identify their 1) common pain points and 2) which online communities they participate in (may or may not be HN). Write advice that will help them with their pain points, and share it in those communities. This will in effect advertise that you know how to solve their problems. Don't be too modest to say you're available for consulting projects, and make it easy for people to contact you.

PS - As someone else suggested, you may want to add your contact info here. There's a big overlap between people who browse HN and people who need and have the budget/authority to hire contractors.
This. That would have been the correct solution. Fork the code and offer their "Kite enabled" version separately. If Kite has to resort to these type of tactics to push their product it seriously makes me doubt it's efficacy. If they can't market their product based on it's merits, why would I want to use it?
Ask HN: Will ai make human intelligence obsolete?
When you teach a robot to do something ( i.e. drive ), then you make humans obsolete who were doing that task (i.e. long haul truckers).

So, when we teach computers to be intelligent, we're then making ourselves obsolete, right?
How does your "clarity" filter work?
How CSS Grid Changes Everything
I follow https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
Well since single payer typically refers to the government being the single payer, the bill goes to the government because you the insured are not the payer of the bill.
Trump's invisible hand?
No domain verification is required at this point. Content-Security-Policies are ideally delivered through the HTTP response headers and then enforced by the browser. We are working on making the integration as easy and smooth as possible.
He already seems to think he's a president, and has apparently been traveling with a convoy of ex-secret service agents.
I wonder what makes this a _knowledge base_ as opposed to a flat file CMS?

A few months ago I left Evernote for my own implementation because I felt that Evernote gave me too little expressive power: No hierarchy, no typed relationships, no plugins. Basically, I was looking for a combination of outliner and concept map, combined with easy image handling. Plus, I wanted to easily add _applications_ like an ebook library, journaling, timelines of events, and generation of static websites and presentations.

I am a huge fan of simplicity and even toyed with PicoCMS by the same author as Raneto. Ultimately though, at least for me, a combination of a simple mysql database with markdown as content format gave me the power I wanted for my personal knowledge base, https://knowfox.com
To think I've been writing all my code out on paper. I need to get on your level. /s
Exactly who then is supposed to do the service industry work for the bay area?

Two hours from Palo Alto gets you nowhere - because its not any more affordable two hours away by car - there two hours on public transit wouldn't even get you out of the Bay Area proper.

50 years ago, it was common that the employees in the cafeteria (janitors too) were actually employees of the company who's building they worked for - why should they have a different want - its not unreasonable to ask that they be extended the same benefits of others working on the site.

To give you a clue - most of the bay area housing is single family homes (by area) - its not anywhere near as dense as NYC or even large parts of NJ - its a housing supply problem.
I’m 100% sure I’m not spewing misinformation, thank you. Amazon is a publicly traded company and WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, most literally NOT Amazon.
If Food Service workers are underpaid that's a fair point but it's not something for Facebook to fix.

Well, we'll see about that.

Being as, you know, it's not like companies such as Facebook have some inalienable right to exist, or anything like that.
You'd have to imagine Netflix does more than viewing numbers since it's not ads that makes them money but subscribers to the overall service.

If a show is getting press and social media talk then they probably value that higher since new subscribers is of very high value. Retention is a different problem and not as particular to one show.
I appreciate and agree with your perspective on putting your money where your mouth is, but Elon is the last person to criticize in that context. He quite literally put all of his money into the problems that he thinks are the most valuable to work on (whether you agree with him or not).
(Interview) Discussing the Data Layer in Python Web Apps
Is Surfing More Sport or Religion?
So would a man who has access to and control over a large portion of the developed world's "private" communications and "news" consumption.
I spent a lot of childhood summers in Gaylord, MI. I'm sure I've been to this park, but somewhat I recall mention of him elsewhere too.
I'm pretty sure "assault rifle" [0] is a reasonably well-defined term and you mean "assault weapon" [1] in your post.

Pointing out that "assault weapon" is meaningless is trying to combat emotive, irrational legislation based on conflating "assault weapon" with "assault rifle" because most people don't understand the difference (and one of the terms was chosen to be intentionally confusing).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon
Making arguments based on facts and evidence is apparently a "leftist" tactic.
I think that jwz enjoyed a reputation beyond his deserts. I don't find him particularly insightful. I also don't seem to take your point in mentioning this? Is this really an "open source" thing? Is it a bad thing, or merely an effect of a normal software development practice?
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

After reading I began to think about programming as an algebraic transformation from one system to another, in doing so radically reduced the amount of errors I made.
It's pretty sad that the combination of the tax code, income based benefit eligibility, and a high local cost of living make something like "Divorce for the sake of the children" a real option.

Christ, is this where we all are now? Just to work and eat, you have to get a divorce and try to finagle your way through the state systems? I don't even know if I know of a word for the feeling I get from this. Despair, resignation, disgust, extreme tiredness, a sense that I should be shocked by this but I am not anymore, a small pinch of Jurassic Park's 'clever-girl' moment....

I don't know what the solution is here, there are a lot of ideas, but good God people, this is really crazy now.

I mean, I know that an armed rebellion/revolution is a thousand times more horrible, the deaths will be millions of times worse than Antietam, the Cultural Revolution, and the Khmer Rouge combined, but the system, the bureaucrats, they will not reform. People become accustomed to poverty and abuse, like they did with slaves whipped and raped in fields in the Antebellum, it becomes normal to just put on sunglasses in the rain to not look at the stunning injustices of a family shitting on the sidewalk, in dirty, wet, and stinking rags. Whatever, where is my gluten-free latte?

And this is flippin' FB! These folk are not neo-slavers or people with dreams of a new nobility.

These are us, hackers, lovers of freedom and justice and peace and order and linked-lists and a good Pad Thai.

Christ, what is going on anymore!?
LaCroix Maker Goes from Fizzy to Fuzzy
Doesn't work in Chrome for Android either: https://caniuse.com/#search=apng.
Ah yep, that's a very good point and quite obvious now you point it out.
awesome work!
Any plans for a Windows version?
I can't wait for electric cars to become more common and competitive with conventional cars. I believe we're going to look back car's emissions the same way we look back at the pre-sewage treatment days - when people used to dump their sewage out the window and into their drinking water!

That being said, we haven't reached the EOL for this first generation of electric cars, and figured out what happens next. Will replacement batteries cost a reasonable price? Or will manufacturers use this as an opportunity to try and get you to buy another car? Maybe you'll be able to replace the old battery with a new one from a 3rd party, or maybe you won't because its loaded with DRM.

Battery prices may go down for automakers, but perhaps consumers won't see a huge benefit. A replacement battery for my hybrid still runs a few thousand dollars and its only about 1 kilowatt-hour.
> Almost any politician will tell you that taxing employer-sponsored health insurance is a "3rd rail".

Every employer outside of the health insurance and drug industries should be furious at the price they pay to pay their employees health benefits. Besides having a distraction that operating businesses in other nations don't have, they're likely paying more than double than what they need to in this area to maintain competitiveness against other nations. It's even worse for startups.
Show HN: Serveo–Expose local servers using only SSH
There are other factors that also push up housing costs.
placeybordeaux just disagrees that NIMBYism is the ONLY factor.
I don't know if NIMBYism is even the primary factor.

For example, we have a small public transit network resulting in few options for high density construction.

There's a construction labor shortage that will likely worsen.

There's a sudden surge in jobs.
I think he has all that stuff as well? He's certainly got the money and he's got a big lever named "facebook" which gets his message infront of a substantial portion of the US voting public.
Is that why the reality of 2016 election results was such a surprise?
I might just be slow, but I can't tell from your landing page exactly what types of things I would document with this. Is it just APIs?
Ok. Understood.

But people have all kinds of ideas about what constitutes "proper and fair". Some people feel differently about marriage and being gay than you do (Or I do). They might come here and argue about perversion and degradation of society and and what their kids are exposed to. And what can and can't be tolerated as far as behavior. And how marriage is such and such and doesn't apply etc. etc. And, they feel every bit as strong about it as you do. This isn't a wacky fringe view (yet) and it isn't considered "discriminatory" by the people professing it.

As far as I know Eich doesn't condemn gay people for being gay. He just apparently has certain views on what constitutes marriage. And he isn't alone in these views. I don't agree. You don't agree. The Supreme Court doesn't agree. But the public crucification of the guy's professional work because of these beliefs (which as far as I know he kept private) is to me 100 times worse than the views he holds. And it's a dangerous stance to take. We've been here many times before. Moral crusaders (of all stripes) out to improve the world who do little but cause destruction. At some level we have to accept not everyone shares our backgrounds or political beliefs and work with this fact in a constructive, civil and reasonable manner. It's part of becoming an adult in a multicultural society.

I appreciate you aren't trying to knock his work, that was OP. My only complaint is your original over the top rhetoric, other than that fine, I understand you have a different view than Eich. But you can not like an idea a person has without personally hating a person for having the idea. And that is the right thing to do.
Imagination doesn't seem learnt to me. Instead learning new concepts adds to the toolbox so to speak.
Where is your portfolio and resume and links I can look at... may have some work for you...
The readme mentions "Brunsli (lossless JPEG repacker)" as a related project, but I can't seem to find that anywhere. Has it been released?
Applying now, thanks!
It's a perfectly reasonable question to ask whether the 60 vote threshold can survive for any kind of legislation in the future. In particular, here is an argument that American democracy is doomed because of the way partisanship ratchets towards more extreme mechanics over time: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doom...

However, it remains the case that in 2009, 59 senators were ready to vote for a public option, but there was no 60th. By contrast, there were nowhere close to even 50 votes for removing the filibuster and changing to a 50 vote threshold.

Please do not miss the fact that Lieberman had no rational justification for opposing the public option and that one of the keenest observers at the time accused him of being "driven more by a pathological dislike of the liberals who dogged him in 2006 than by any remotely rational policy judgment."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/lieberma...
The money will come from the same place money comes from now: banks. The value backing that money will come from the same place value comes from now: energy applied to capital. Given that the whole reason money and capital even came to exist in the first place is that humans have some compulsive drive to do relatively complex things once their basic, life sustaining needs are met, there's very little rational reason to be worried about less value being produced in a post UBI world.

One very good reason to keep (not necessarily in their exact current forms, mind you) the current bureaucracies involved in housing, health care, etc, is that that bureaucracy factors out the energy involved in obtaining those life sustaining societal structures. Certainly make the bureaucracy more efficient, but entirely eliminating it makes the society as a whole less efficient.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it!