skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two points:

1. The study does not say that 44% would stop working - they just wouldn't continue working in their current company/occupation, with a portion of them probably moving on to more fulfilling work (as opposed to living a life of pure leisure).

2. The stats refer to winning a lottery, which solves one's all financial problems and desires. Basic income does neither for a majority of people.
Those robots, compared to biology, are utterly unimpressive. You aren't going to get a robot butler before you have a robot honeybee, but where is the robot honeybee? It's mechanically limited out of existence.

Software etc. are simpler nearer to useful than our hardware is, but it's the hardware parts that are missing to make use of current software.
For my understanding: why is my post downmodded to -1? Could someone explain that to me please so I can avoid the mistakes in the future? Thanks.
Definitely. Realize also though that I would consider "thinking about a problem" as also being part of work. The cool thing with our type of work - which even though I am not into the code anymore, I still do work out algorithms and architecture - is that I can do that while running or showering or driving. You don't have to be typing to be working.
With multiple service providers available, why would you bother paying one? If they decide to make your service slow, their customers will notice, and if they care about your service, they'll switch. An ISP can only pull that kind of extortion when they're the only game in town.
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Ugh. I want to use this but I want docs and how bootstrap this into my build process.
PG's incentives aren't aligned with those of a single founder. He can spout that nonsense advice because he invests in hundreds of companies. So he can give advice that will lead to the majority of companies working ridiculous hours and burning out, but if even one of them defy the odds and become a "unicorn", he makes money. You, as a founder, only have stake in a single company, not hundreds, so you should do things to make your company succeed.
Horrible attempt at vote manipulation http://imgur.com/a/1h7c5
The translation of the compiler from C to Go was a mostly mechanical transformation, specifically to prevent any changes in the resulting compiled programs. Go compilation is getting better all the time, but the switch itself did not change the resulting programs.
Three quarters of US murder victims are male, and more than half are black. The same goes for US murderers, to which we can add that more than half are under 30, and more than half use handguns (not an inexpensive tool). I suspect that the circumstances more often involve drug gangs than domestic violence. It seems unlikely to me that Drug Prohibition could be such a big factor in murder but not in other crime or incarceration.
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> Vertical farms would bring food production to urban areas, where the people are.

i.e., it would drive already high urban real estate prices higher, by competing with existing urban real estate uses, while not being cost effective, because increased output per square foot of land footprint would be offset by the higher cost per square foot of land footprint of urban land.

It seems like the kind of thing that makes a lot of sense in places that have very limited access to land with inexpensive shipping costs to populated areas like densely populated islands, but a lot less economic sense in most of the rest of the world.
Yes, thank you for saying this. You'll often see the relative safety of different modes of travel compared using passenger miles. Passenger miles are an important consideration for some modes of travel, but not air travel.
Many people are concerned about the economics of this, but in my mind, trying to scale food production is itself the problem. I know I sound over-idealistic, and usually am not well received when I ask this, but I'll ask anyway -- If every home had a room dedicated to vertical farming, instead a room for watching TV, what would that do for the problem?
You should really include a non-zipped js as well.
All these things make intuitive sense to me, and I practice almost all of them. Without citations to actual scientific articles, however, this is just another productivity post.
It will never, ever, be able to out compete Dirt + Sun.
Autodesk are already deeply embedded in the games industry with tools like Scaleform, Beast, HumanIK, etc. The list of products that use their middleware is impressive - http://gameware.autodesk.com/usage/games If they can leverage their userbase from the middleware to the engine they'll do very well.
I for once would appreciate it if Ruby programmers would stop trying to avoid writing JavaScript by writing their own JS-based implementation of Ruby.

With ES6 and Babel this "new programming language" provides nothing interesting other than making your code look more like Ruby.
Wow...
... lost for words. Thanks a lot! Not working that long. I started in publishing and self trained to pivot to data/web analytics. Nowadays I work at an digital agency crunching numbers, advising customers, writing white papers or trying to (objectively) benchmark different sites using the tools at hand.

But these "war" stories are reminding me of some people that showed me the first html, gave me the first *nix OS and made me enter the internet at 14.4...

This were the first proper hackers I encountered. I remember, one of them, being 15 at the time, working as the only server admin at a local isp, while still going to school. One night all our IRC bots just disappeared showing him, that something was really wrong at his workplace.

We were the only ones left awake and so I offered to fetch him (me being 19 and able to drive) and drive im to work. There I saw for the first time someone in parallel working on a routing server, compiling a kernel on a local machine and just for the sake of it bringing a local workstation up to date. Never had seen fingers flying that fast over three different keyboards, while I had my first experience on a 2mbit connection (the connection, that this provider had overall).

Well - that made me learn some more things in regards to computers and the net - but in hindsight, I could have made my way faster.
No, I've been happy in my career. I want to find positions that I enjoy again, but it just seems like that sector of the programming world left me behind while I was selling out.
I think that depends on the person.

What you describe is the mercenary style approach - "Well, I've been fucked over before so pay me!" - and I think that is totally valid mindset, if cynical.

The reality is though that for some problem sets or types of work, the work transcends the tangible benefits. I have to fall back on my time in the military for this one because I have innumerable examples of people who have absolutely dedicated their lives to their military job and what they have to show for it from that perspective is a broken body and a relative pittance; but you couldn't pay them enough to leave because they love it so much.

So it's not always just about hard compensation.
20 hours / day? Who does that? Not even Jeff Bezos makes his people work 20 hours/day.
Exactly.

I remember a conversation I had with a friend of mine about vertical farming. He's big into his food, cares about food quality.

Anyway, I bring it up, he's not impressed, in fact far from it. The impression I got was that it ruined the emotional impact behind the origin of food. Instead of growing in fields, in natural time-honoured traditional way (I should mention at this point that my friend believed in buying organic, just to nip the pesticides/herbicides argument in the bud), we'd be replacing that with what amounted to growing in a lab.

If you're going to convince anyone, beyond tech heads and those that only care about cost, you're going to need to address the story of food, its role in our culture. I strongly doubt it would get anywhere close to the mainstream without the type of emotionally-led marketing that logfromblammo suggests.
Reading the comments here, the results seem to fluctuate heavily in dimensions, winners and margins.

I guess, this test is just not an epitome of anything at all.
Suggest some better terms?
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If Autodesk gets the visualization crowd using Stingray, they have a chance. The games market is a highly competitive and some would say unforgiving career, while the visualization market tends to be previsualization of very large projects, with matching expectations in the compensation of those involved and time frames of delivery. Simply offering a road to a less exhausting career could be the path to success for Stingray.
I will keep that in mind the next time I feel like working 20 hours per day.
> Conversely, I wonder if the viability changes if urban areas would subsidize the underlying (most likely expensive) land costs for vertical farming, due to food being required to survive.

Well, the viability of living in urban areas would certainly change if another land use competing with housing and existing commercial uses was subsidized by taxing existing residents.
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h2 is better than that.. each request carries a priority, so the server can stop sending one resource and start sending another higher priority one if it becomes available. It can even do this interleaving based on actual data available to send not just the request queue - so things like CPU and IO time on one high-priority resource don't become blockers to using the bandwidth for a lower-pri resource that is ready to go.

Obviously that requires a decent server implementation that uses smallish sending chunks and doesn't over buffer.

So the browser should not reorder requests and hold some back (they all do play those games in h1) with h2 - it should just set the pri/dep flags well to give the server (which is going to do the sending) maximum information.

The real HOL problem with h2 involves TCP loss recovery. Its a fairly minor issue though in practice.
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Well sure, from a period starting just after WWII and culminating with the MLK riots, the whole country had been set up to both create and disenfranchise a new class of people: those connected to both the trade of illegal drugs and organized crime in general. Before, organized crime didn't necessarily involve the drug trade, but since then it has been synonymous. Drugs are the economic engine that powers the size and scope of the American prison population, and shapes the culture of people who are born to go to prison.
From personal observation, giardini's suggestion to grow a Unix beard might actually be a solid step #1.
I wonder how this interacts with savings, credit and location. Knowing that you are guaranteed an income would mean that people could spend all their income. It would also mean that it would be a lot less risky to offer certain level of credit. Lastly, it would allow people to go and live where life is cheaper.

It seems to decouple many complex concerns.
My business partner is a graphic designer and is strong on day to day business stuff which is a huge help as frankly if its not code I'd forget my head.

That might be a good way to go.
Why do we need to bother with bringing food production to urban areas? Just grow the lettuce outside town and bring it in.
US companies have shown they can't police themselves on this matter. We should write our US Representatives and strongly suggest that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 be reformed and be harmonized with the European Working Time Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive
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This list is fine, but who is it aimed at where first all the 9 ways are written in text, and then they attach visual versions, in case we weren't sure what "get more light" meant.
Sounds like you found a plum position because it's certainly not the norm.
The flaw/problem with splitting the "ad engine" is that it won't survive on its own.

By ad engine, I'll assume you mean AdWords and Adsense combined. I'll call them Google Ads.

Businesses that rely on ads to survive (Maps, Docs, Android), and those that generate ad income (Search, YouTube) would be bogged down by admin and legal issues if they were unbundled.

Imagine Google Ads having to pay YouTube X per month for ads. Does YT get the same rate as everyone? What if some external advertiser comes in and offers YT lower rates? What stops YT from taking that offer? ABC can force transfer pricing between the two, but it's easier to make it notional instead of money flowing through separate companies.

Similar, Google makes money from Android through Play Store. Where does Play store live? In Android Inc? What about books, magazines, music? If Android gets ownership of them, why should they bother making apps for web and other platforms?

In a business where you have a lot of inter-dependencies between units, it's often better to keep those units together.
Honestly? From what I've seen, the main skill would be, don't go into a DBA role. DBAs are operational/administrative roles by nature (maintain the DB, account/security stuff, respond to server/DB issues). What, I think, you're getting at is more architecture and system building. Having the ability to consider DB bottlenecks and interactions along with a strong foundation in application programming will provide a great base to do interesting work.

Then again, maybe DBAs aren't as bogged down by the minutiae in some places and have more of an ability to troubshoot and resolve DB code/structure problems. It always seems like that's their job but they never have enough time to properly do it with the myriad of other requests.
Actually a mixture. Some shortcomings have vanished because while they're problems, they're solved problems. And adoption etc, too.

I'd note that I was never against XMPP, though; I just don't see the need to pretend it's perfect. I do, however, object when problems are claimed for it that it doesn't have.
There is no reason to grow wheat in a vertical farm. Vertical farms would be for specialty crops. Would love to see your source on that too.

Additionally, not all vertical farming relies on artificial lighting.
You are not supposed to wait until they are in the viewport. I use a 600px threshold so the visitor never sees anything on screen loading.

If your page has lots of search results and lots of images it really saves a huge amount and makes the page feel much lighter.
"à la baguette"
Samsung clearly do not share that opinion, and justifiably so.

For other partners, for example Chromebook makers or YouTube, Google is worse than others for the simple reason they work to make everyone else they're working with interchangeable with someone else they're working with, resulting in near perfect competition with them as the gatekeepers. Today's YouTube stars have brands, but they are second in the customer relationship position behind YouTube. The likes of Apple certainly do get themselves in the mix here, but Apple prefer to use their leverage to compete against another ecosystem as opposed to setting their own off against each other.

One of the biggest changes in the tech industry in the last ten years is the wider appreciation of the need to own your own customer relationship, and to prevent others from grabbing yours.
I'm really glad that you've done the D implementation. I think D gets less attention than it should, especially compared to Go.

Maybe somebody already proficient in Rust, reading this, can contribute?
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It's still hard to take any benchmark seriously when given the quote:

> Mosquitto was compiled with gcc 4.8.2, the Go implementation was executed with go run, the D implementation was compiled with dmd 2.0.64.2 and the Erlang version I’m not sure.

The "I'm not sure" speaks for itself, but go run also includes both compilation time and execution time and they're comparing it against just the execution times of the other languages. That's not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
What if the product, once released, will keep being improved with continuous development for at least 2-3 years?
Vertical farming is an energy nightmare. It requires at least 1000x more energy than conventional agriculture because you have to provide supplemental light for the plants to grow indoors.

Others have addressed this:

"... the light required to grow the 500 grammes of wheat that a loaf of bread contains would cost, at current prices, £9.82. (The current farm gate price for half a kilo of wheat is 6p.) That’s just lighting: no inputs, interest, rents, rates, or labour. Somehow this minor consideration – that plants need light to grow and that they aren’t going to get it except on the top storey – has been overlooked by the scheme’s supporters. I won’t bother to explain the environmental impacts."

-- http://www.monbiot.com/2010/08/16/towering-lunacy/
That's my gut instinct— and there are so many secondary services which nature provides you for free out there, like pollination.

And yet, the article does make some pretty compelling points, especially about year-round yield, continuous yield, and isolation from environmental factors like drought, pests, etc.

What's actually most exciting to me is greater integration of food production directly into the places where people live and work. Why have a separate vertical farm when it could be the two floors above your company cafeteria, and the lettuce in your lunch literally never left the premises? _That_ is really exciting to me.
Ah, if you can still edit it then you might want to change "employee" to "employer" then.

In which case your effective tax rate is ~35% rather than 38%, 36325 / 55780.

My council tax is under £1200/year (and that's for the house, so we should only count half of that for me and half for my wife) and VAT is 20% on some but not all items. Pension contributions bring the tax rate down too, so it gets a bit hard to compare.
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Segment.io does more or less that same thing https://segment.com/docs/libraries/analytics.js/

IIRC the library is free but if you want to use their other services then it can cost money
What if every house had their own backyard steel furnace? Think of how much more steel we would produce!
The "improvements" and "big ideas" the author listed are real and exciting developments. I think about robotics a lot (in academia) but given these developments, a Cambrian explosion (i interpret as robot succeeding in general simple tasks that human can do) is still way beyond my imagination. There are many technical hurdles such as perception, planning, learning and reasoning. The key challenge now seems to be finding scenarios where robots can be successful with current technology.

On a separate note, the robobrain project http://robobrain.me/ seems to fit the running themes in the paper.
I don't think Lenovo is wrong here, but it's kind of just a generic list of app categories that aren't games.

Considering how hard it is to make a buck on Apple or Android tablets, I can't even conceive how hard it is to do so on Windows devices.
Where I live, the average farm loses money every year. The only reason farming exists in its current form in this area is because of government subsidies. There are big lobbying groups to make sure that specific methods are paid for by taxes, even if they aren't efficient. Also, the average age of farmers is over 60, so they are extremely unlikely to try innovative methods. Only once the current generation dies off will there be any major changes, because right now everything is prescribed and paid for.
Let's be clear here though. We aren't talking about any outcome companies. This whole thing started with the article about Amazon, which is not a company looking for an average outcome they are trying to dominate the world of marketplaces.

No company that is trying to do massive huge game changing things are 9-5. That also counts for big projects (Apollo, Manhattan etc...) that have out-sized goals.
The same is true about the environmental impact of manufacturing all of the steel, aluminum, LEDs, electricity, etc. used in a vertical farm.
It's quite beautiful looking.

Unsure of what use it would be, but nice for a change.
Because a nontrivial portion of the environmental costs of modern food production is all the dinosaur bones being burned to shlep it from farm to factory to warehouse to store to home.

Not to say that vertical farming is cost-free; it's most definitely not. It does avoid (edit: or at least reduce) that major (hidden) cost, though.
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I agree with it in terms of generally desired skill sets. Angular rose to prominence very quickly and Node has had a very steady grassroots climb. Backbone has been on the decline for a while now. I don't think React has the klout to really become a commonplace skill. We will see what happens with Angular after 2.0 though.
Yeah, traditional farming uses the sun directly as a major input, and vertical farming has to use a lot of electricity to make up for that -- which is why all the "positive" energy comparisons you see for vertical farming are to other indoor methods.

But without cheap, abundant, clean power to replace the way traditional farming uses the sun, vertical farming is either not going to be economically viable on a large scale, or is going to be trading one set of negative externalities for another (traditional farming's externalities from runoff, etc., for the externalities from the power production for vertical farming), or both.
There are several good points in this article and while it's a bit longer than usual blog post it's worth reading.

However my grim prediction is that ultimately not many people will vote with their wallets for a change in Amazon's culture, especially in case of warehouses staff.

It's one thing to show some outrage in social media when you learn that white-collar workers ( you can easily relate to) are working in toxic culture. It's completely different thing to abandon low prices and convenience, because some people you never see or meet are working in horrible conditions.
As a recent convert to functional programming, I'd like to point out that more functional styles of error handling helps one address them more properly and not sweep them under the rug.

This ties into the article's first point about how poor error handling is a common source of bugs.
The problem here is that in many cases, you're replacing things that have historically been free (light, water, air) with things that are not free (LED lights, irrigation systems, exhaust/air circulators). The increase in complexity also incurs a lot of additional overhead costs. Modern "horizontal" farming is already largely automated; so vertical farming doesn't deliver any savings on that front.

Don't get me wrong -- I am a fan of vertical farming and I think that it's an important technology for us to develop because we're going to eventually trash the planet and we need some way to grow food -- but there are way too many economic problems with it for it to be much more than a novelty right now. IMO the most promising near-term use case is marijuana - there are already regulatory reasons to incur most of the costs of vertical farming, so it's less of a disadvantage (not to mention that high-grade stuff has to be grown indoors to prevent cross-pollenation).
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If solar and battery tech were strong enough, could people have shipping containers buried underground and dedicated to growing using artificial lights? The vertical, compactus-style grow beds.

Could bury these things under drive ways, under lawns, garages, decks, pools, etc.
New trailer for The Martian.

It was a compulsively readable book, and I'm looking forward to the movie.