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Doesn't seem very different than the Google Bus vandalism that was in the news a few years ago. Some people want Google to look bad for whatever reasons.

It sounds like these people know that recovering the bikes will cost Google money and that their public image will be impacted by having their Google branded property littered in wooded areas.
Ask HN: Flask Application Structure
Hi,

I will appreciate your feedback with regards a Flask Application structure, which is logical, practical and easily adaptable to vertical scalability.

I will also like to find out your personal experience and thoughts about the following Flask Boilerplate templates:

1.Cookiecutter Flask
2.Cookiecutter Flask Pythonic
3.Flask Foundation

Cheers
Two distros referenced on this thread are Gentoo and Arch - both are rolling-release tinkerer's distros, and it has been noted that the feature in question has been out of scope for QA by the systemd project as of late. The community quickly found and shared workarounds and the bug will get fixed. I was bitten by this bug, but I'm not sweating it.
I think the distinction here is that even though a theory like Presburger arithmetic is about the infinite set of natural numbers and similarly for Euclidean geometry that they are still finitary objects precisely because they are decidable: the entire theory can be reduced to a finite object, the decision procedure.

On the other hand Peano arithmetic is not only about infinite objects, and very many more than just the naturals because it is rich enough to allow you to encode other ostensibly more sophisticated infinite objects in it, it is itself an infinite object. It can't be reduced to a finitary decision procedure the way weaker arithmetics can.

Diagonalization is accounted for by my second example of conceptualizing infinity: you can't do a diagonalization argument unless you contract a variable. In particular, you can admit full unrestricted set comprehension if you can't contract to derive absurdity. Referencing section 2.3 here [1]. It was this analysis of Russell's paradox that led to the discovery of light linear logics, or so the story goes.

[1] http://www.brics.dk/LS/96/6/BRICS-LS-96-6.pdf
There's one thing none of those have that PHP has:

Work with off-the-shelf managed hosting.
There is the basic programming language, which provides a set of instructions that computer would do; then there is the meta-language (e.g. macros, templates) that provides instructions to compose instructions. I have come to realize that the functional programming essentially is the latter part.

For example, I have a meta language in which we can define a box and unbox:

subcode: box_a
instructions that un-boxes a type ...
BLOCK
instructions that boxes a type ...

subcode: box_b
instructions that un-boxes b type ...
BLOCK
instructions that boxes b type ...

main_code:
&call box_a
&call box_b
your code

That is a verbose version of J's under adverb with my meta-layer that I can use in any languages (C, Python, ...).
Can you give more information about the crimes you were charged with?
Bitcoin is volatile and transactions are slow. This means it's not really fungible for general purpose money.

You bring up a good niche that it can fill, though.
> We (humanity) have made huge progress to understand images in terms of content and emotions of people.

We don't have systems that 'understand' anything, nor do we have anything remotely close. We have systems that can associate an arbitrary tag with an image based on a set of patterns that exist in the image. That's a pretty awesome accomplishment, but it is a tiny fraction of the problem of 'understanding'.
> Electron really needs a competitor/alternative

http://sciter.com - single dll/so of 5mb - embeddable HTML/CSS engine designed specifically for running desktop UIs.
Portfolio for the company discussed in the article: https://anatomikmedia.com/portfolio/

Plenty pornographic.
What if our goal is to allow taxpayers to use public spaces?

What if by doing that people would become willing to invest in the programs that treat these kinds of problems?
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> faraway cities such as Montreal

Loved that bit

> Fourth, PornHub is owned by MindGeek which also owns Brazzers, Mofos, DigitalPlayground, Twistys, RealityKings, and has many relationships with other producers.

There was, a few years ago, an article in the local newspaper abount Mindgeek by a journalist who had just found out about it. Apparently the technical challenges are pretty interesting and they maintain a low enough profile that it's possible to work there without the stigma from the general public.
The Internet took off when Gen X was 25-40 or so.

Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jerry Yang, David Filo, Marc Andreson and more are all Xers.
Is this similar to http://httpredir.debian.org/ ?

I just created my first live debian chroot earlier today, and was amazed at how it seemingly worked.

debootstrap downloaded everything required for a basic debian install in a few minutes from http://httpredir.debian.org/ and I was in and using the fresh system.

Is that what netboot.xyz is? The same thing but for multiple linux distros?
The danger there is that the people who write the test end up having some power. They can choose a biased set of questions or even demand wrong/biased answers. Being political issues, often nobody knows the right answers anyway.

So we'd need elections to choose who writes the tests and then who gets to vote for them?

The great thing about democracy is that no matter what goes wrong to the country internally, the blame lies with the people who voted for those politicians, or didn't bother to vote, which is most people. It's a way to thrash out difficult decisions where the people deciding are the same people who end up affected by them. There are gaps in this idea of course, like persecuting minorities and voters being more concerned about their tribal membership
> female domination which has always been very niche. Niche sites generally don't find themselves on pornhub

You've got to be kidding. If not, then go to PornHub, and type "femdom" in the search.
It has historically had a high concentration of Mormons and this has shaped the state's culture.
History remembers what happens when things get /bad enough/.

The questions are:

* Will they get bad enough?

* Will robots gun down the poor, or will the revolution achieve success?
I was just joking around, apparently I offended some people. I don't know anything about the industry and honestly never heard of MindGeek, but now that you're explaining it it's actually pretty interesting. How much is MindGeek worth?
In Germany the owner is responsible for the property, so if something gets stolen and dumped, you have to manage how to get it back. I guess that's why people care more about their stuff and lock it.
There's really no need to be so nasty and make personal attacks against Poettering. Please don't register a throwaway account just to throw shade, it doesn't show much class or courage.
Show HN: (isnuts) Spread code as comments and test python code better.
The example they give is correctly stating what an acronym in the story stands for. The trouble starts if you have to answer questions like "Which Senators are pro-life" or "Who threatened to exit the EU" which can be leading or misleading or have multiple correct answers depending on your world view.
Posted by (apparently) the developer 2 hours prior:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14883414
I have no problems with homeless and weird people.

I do have a problem with them using the space in a way that actively prevents people from being patrons. I have more of a problem with the tacit assumption that this is some kind of stopgap "shelter" and that the unilateral non democratic appropriation of public spaces to provide a poor substitite is defensible.
Natural selection in biology has a mechanism. And it took a few billion years to produce anything that wants. What's the mechanism for natural selection in robots?
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Since around 2004, seemingly all additional compute the human race had developed for itself has been put towards gathering and processing telemetry for the purposes of marketing and control. AI as a technology is simply more horsepower and automation for surveillance.

I see your comment as a strange mix of optimism about humanity's creative abilities and fatalism about the end of the world coming soon. Not like this is news, but the end of world has always been right around the corner - most everything is broken here and death is everywhere.

The strangest thing to me about comments like this is the assumption that a nefarious super-intelligence would stop at subjugating us. If a super-intelligence was evil and had power to act, it would just kill us all and sterilize the planet, given the chance.

I just don't believe we have the ability to make a standalone computer super-intelligence - we universally suck at coding at-scale. Don't get me wrong, the AI and machine learning algorithms we have are amazing, but we're not going to get a being out of those experiments.

What I'm worried about is humans: humans continuing to turn tech against other humans for surveillance and telemetry in support of totalitarianism. And, I'm worried about humans augmenting their brains with compute. If there ever will be an evil super-intelligence, I wager it will be a (meta-)man.
Get paid to crack other people's software
It's been about 10 years since I left the field. I believe Rodney Brooks did some work on this. Eggenberger was also doing some interesting work about 15 years ago--not sure where that is today. The computational demands for evolutionary & genetic algorithms are significant but there's no free lunch.
I assume mean strongly typed and I can agree with them to an extent. While it does add slight overhead when writing code (not enough to matter I think) it does help eliminate a bunch of errors/edge cases you'd have to unit test for in an dynamically typed language.

Though as I always say: use the right tool for the job. And for a lot of jobs dynamically typed languages and framework offer a lot to the developer.
> Prince Juan Carlos initially remained in the background during public appearances and seemed ready to follow in Franco's footsteps. Once in power as King of Spain, however, he facilitated the development of a "constitutional monarchy".

Doesn't sound like he gave it up, just re-branded it to keep with the times. Like my father used to say "Death alone can remove them."
This is something programmers will never appreciate, and every small business on earth has already encountered

Go build your client's new website in go, and then spend 80 hours trying to make it work with their $5/month hosting
It depends. I'm way more proficient in Python than anything else, but I'll still reach for PHP fur a single page template / dynamic report, or awk for some jobs, bash for others, Perl if there's exactly the right CPAN lib, ditto ruby or node, c for some jobs...

Some times a different language can so utterly change/simplify your approach to a problem it's 100% worth it.
Its good. We use silex/twig for development. Sites/ form processing is pretty straight forward and easy and I like the "microframework" idea of not being too opinionated.

Symfony and Zend have a large library with various functionality and you can pick and choose what you like.
The php Composer lets you control dependencies easily.

The main problem is that there are almost too many frameworks and the language has a bad reputation (legacy warts from old generations). I maintain java and perl websites too, and find the php ones easier to maintain.
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Improve your English skills. Seriously.
A novelty. Only 7 billion available.
It would seem logical that smoking marijuana would also cause lung cancer. But there are many other ways in which you can take it.
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Funnily enough, I just got one. I know what I'm doing this week!
We won't go "back" to barter because, contrary to popular — and mistaken — belief, we didn't come from there.

Go pick up a copy of "Debt: The First 5000 Years" for a complete defenestration of that tired trope.
Huh? Was this meant to explain why ex porn stars move to Utah?
>getrandom()
>read hardware RNG

Not secure against a mallicious hardware RNG. In principle, the hardware RNG could access the memory and corralate its output with that of getrandom.

For that matter, getrandom might be able to do something to muck with the hardware RNG, or with the code following. Or any code not part of your RNG scheme could try and muck with the results.

>Who allowed something into production that had an opportunity to check for Wednesdays and Saturdays?

The code was audited and passed because there was no such check. The machine code that made it onto the machine did not match the source code submitted, but instead had an extra function tacked onto the end. How do you defend against this [0]. What if someone sneaks the backdoor in the firmware of the harddrive, that only provides the backdoored code to the CPU occasionally.

At some point, you need to trust the people making the lottery machines.

[0] Hint, reproducible builds and signed code; but this still devolves into a trusting trust situation.
On point. I would add that this is a false sense of the commentor getting their two cents in so they no longer care to participate any further.
"An entrepreneur's primary function is to create jobs"

No, it's to create wealth. That jobs can also be created is a happy side effect.
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00050) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc. Thank you!
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Funny, I do the opposite. When I find a book on Amazon, I'll see if it's at my local library and if not put in a request to have it shipped from another library in the same system (in my case, that system covers a number of nearby cities and towns).

If I can't get it for free from the library then I'll consider ordering it from Amazon.

Another advantage of the library is you don't accumulate more and more books over time, unlike if you buy them.
The one of these links I clicked on was an NSFW comic strip. Just FYI.
> Out of all the definitions and all of the activities the word entails, there is one thing all entrepreneurs have in common. They create jobs, starting with themselves.

When I clean my house, I sweep the floor. That doesn't mean the purpose of cleaning my house is to sweep the floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxB-ZePpS7E
I wish that happened. Not just, but all the other companies (including the clothing line owned by Ivanka Trump)

But Apple/all others wouldn't.. Because 20% profit.

Driven by our own capitalist agendas, we're the ones fuelling China after all.
That's just it. A living thing has motivation created and honed by the need to reproduce. It IS its own motivation.

A machine can only measure parameters and take action to get to some target. Its priorities are set by its program and the data it has. Its own continued existence and propagation are not the default. It cannot want and doesn't need to the way a living thing does.

And I don't see reason to try to give machines such qualities. People have wanted servants that have no concern for their own needs for as long as there have been people. Slaves that are selfless and highly capable. And that is how most automation will be designed.

Fiction presents human-like machines but that hardly means that is what will build or want when the time actually comes.
That requires some kind of selection pressure. In the wild, the pressure is that if you can't beat other lifeforms to the good resources, you starve to death/get eaten and don't reproduce. Artificial selection seems like a better model for AI, though. Animals in a factory farm don't have to compete for food, and aren't allowed to control their surroundings in any way. The selection pressure there is that you're only allowed to reproduce if you're tasty and marketable.

With AI and robots, I think the selection pressure is going to be ability to do stuff that (some) humans value, or think they value. The risk isn't that the robots might rebel, it's that the people in charge of them don't understand the consequences of what they're selecting for and/or don't have everyone's best interests at heart.
He is going to get paid after he builds the strategy... still better odds compared to the other advices like going door to door or working for minimum wage in India
Screenshots on https://www.workflowproducts.com/postage.html should be clickable thumbnails for larger preview. Otherwise those are too small to see much detail
Appreciated the comment on the blog by Peter Shor :)
I find that complaining about something without providing suggestions to be unproductive. It's very easy to complain and say things are bad. Anyone can do that.

There are reasons why people are doing things this way. Just like the discussion of why people have 1000+ tabs. You could try to understand the underlying reasons vs just criticize.

What would you rather people do? Code it in Qt? Code it in Java? Code it for each platform specifically? If so, why aren't people doing that?

I value cross-platform support greatly because I run Linux on desktop, Windows on laptop, and I have a Mac Mini as well.

I use Moneydance [1] as my personal finance tracking software. It's written in Java for cross-platform support. I use it on Linux and on Windows. If it was written in Electron, I'd still use it. Why? Cross-platform support is important to me.

[1]: http://moneydance.com/
> 1. Super-incentivize snitching. Reward whistle-blowers to the point where it becomes an easy decision. Not only monetary, but with honor and with medals. Make it the new "right thing to do" in public service. Fight corruption. Easy sell.

They did this behind the Iron Curtain. At one point in Romania, 30% of the population were regularly reporting to the Secret Police. Wonder what the percent of false positives were?
I just started using it recently and while writing in Babel/ES6 is nice, figuring out which framework or libraries to use (React vs Web Components and React vs Vue vs Polymer vs Angular vs...), sass or less, to redux or not, setting up webpack is definitely not an enjoyable experience. The beauty of many other languages is it doesn't usually involve so many decisions. There's usually an undisputed better library, a recommended setup, but js ecosystem now has so many options that it only leads to decision fatigue.
I don't think I follow any of that.
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None. They don't reproduce, so there's no opportunity to evolve characteristics. And it is not our best interests to make an evolving robot, any more than it would be to accelerate evolution amongst animals.

We want work performed in better cheaper ways. We don't want competition.
I wonder what that would be broken out by intake mechanism. Heroin can be smoked a few different ways, eaten in brownies, eaten as pills, insufflated, or injected.

From what I understand, the addiction mechanism for heroin is more subtle then non users think. Its easy to try once, enjoy it, and then not be compelled to do it again. The problem is many users see the lack of negative experiences on their first use as sign that the drug is "safe", so they use a month later, and it still ok, so they quickly start to use most weekends, ramping up until they use every day.

Similar to you, an old boss of mine well experienced with drugs told me the only two drugs he would advise people against are heroin and crack. Heroin because you're always going to remember your first time and its amazing, and crack because you will be amazingly high for 10 minutes, crash, and really feel the insanely strong need to take another hit.
Would it be practical to go back to school after, let's say, 10 years of workmanship? With family and all. I don't know, just curious.
Simple fact trivia won't do anything to demonstrate a person has understood the article, merely that he read it.

It's the fundamental difference between functional illiteracy and "plain" illiteracy.

This difference shows up all the time when analyzing data because some jurisdiction will only report the illiteracy number while some other will include the functional illiteracy as well.
Bear in mind that prominent stocks like Amazon don't trade in their value, they trade on perceived future value and settle where that perceived value crosses with the markets risk tolerance.

Amazon has, and will continue, upward because they are capable of breaking into new markets at scale. Unlike Netflix which is quickly approaching market saturation, Amazon has virtually unbounded potential to invade untouched markets as they are currently doing with postal and produce. The result is that we can't see where Amazon's revenue will finally plateau. What we do know is that AWS profits make them extremely resilliant to taking losses in these other markets but at the same time highly vulnerable to competition from other providers like Google.

Fyi google has the better product, but it's better because it puts the kind of people who decide which to use out of work. So industry hasn't flipped yet. When they do expect Amazon to take a big hit.
"What is your proposed solution?"

Well, giving the homeless a better place to hang out would be one option. I don't think most of them are there to actually use the library as such (some might be, of course).

As I understand it, many shelters kick them out during the daytime, so they wind up in the library or riding public transportation to get out of the weather instead.
I would consider that a purpose more than a function.

Entrepreneurs often fail at creating wealth, but they never fail to create jobs, even if they are temporary.

Case in point, most entrepreneurs have little to no wealth until a successful valuation or exit, but are still paying payroll. And they provide no wealth until ownership of that company becomes valuable.
1. Bet $10000 on black at the casino. If you win, well done. If you lose continue.

2. Bet $20000 on black at the casino, if you win, well done. If you lose, you lost $30000.

There is 75% chance to make $10000 - casino edge using this strategy. You can do this on any day of the week the casino is open.
Copy the driver education program? Supervised learning and testing with a controlled final "test drive", even have 5/10 year re-certification tests.
Is there a reason this was linked to the issues page rather than the repo root?

By the way, this looks really nice. It's an electron app, but it references having "a small fast C core library in the style of Node.js and NGINX." Can you go into more detail about the architecture of this and how it's related to Node and NGINX?
I don't think anyone is arguing that. "Throwing them on the streets" and "discouraging them from hanging out in the library unless they are actually using it" are two different things entirely.
>Slaves that are selfless and highly capable. And that is how most automation will be designed.

Problem is they're not your slaves, and they don't care about you any more than themselves.
Pretty boring.

50700 counts of aggravated unauthorized access to computer systems for making some scripts to drop a bot on lots of coldfusion site. Incl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756

1 count of the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637426

1 of the same + bonus charge for possibly starting a SMTP server on the domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5098218

Credit card fraud for sharing some cards on IRC and unsuccessfully trying to use a few.

Money laundering for receiving a wire of ~6.5k euros from China.

There might be something more, but that's all I can remember for now. Mostly pretty silly things anyway.
How is this any better than any other database admin tool?