skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optimists argue that throughout the history of capitalism, new technologies
have always led to new jobs in the long run. But pessimists say that this
trend isn’t guaranteed to continue, and the chance that we are in an era
where wealth is created without jobs raises very thorny questions about how
that wealth will be distributed fairly.

Nothing keeps the populace employed as good ol' agriculture does!

Sure there are "new jobs" but job creation doesn't have a fundamental law analogous to the law of conservation of momentum. Efficient tech is at it's very heart a job destroyer. So with growing population and shrinking meaningful jobs what we end up with is civil unrest. Hence we have people employed doing busy works who come home to constant stream of "news" and "entertainment" and another section doing the busy work churning out these contents! Apart from breeding inequality it also breed discontent. Perhaps evolutionarily humans are wired to feel satisfaction at the end of a hard days work.
Why does an SVG look fuzzier than a bitmap at low resolutions? Is it because of the lack of anti-aliasing?
var func = function func() {};

That's what the Babel REPL spits when you input the « let » statement.
Everybody can learn plumbing too. Doesn't mean the prices are going to fall. Programming can be very fiddly, and most people hate that. I think our jobs are safe.
Sounds a little bit like the Long Earth series by Pratchett and Baxter. Though there it was an infinite number rather than just two, they were initially unpopulated, and there were sharp limits on moving material between worlds. (Cool premise mediocre execution IMO.)

Anyway re: your original thought experiment I'd say no. If you look at the rapid growth phases of those companies, I don't think the employee growth rate was as fast as the customer growth rate. I think that's what people mean when they call something a scalable business.
Wall Street burned up a lot of its goodwill with the public with the various financial scandals. Certainly, they're still in business and will be in for the foreseeable future. But can Silicon Valley have the foresight to preemptively defuse future backlash against job destruction brought upon by automation? Perhaps it's time to get some major tech CEOs pushing forward proposals for basic income. Certainly some VCs have already been making public statements about it.
Please do not add allow domain "*" into your crossdomain.xml EVER unless on a CDN domain (a domain specifically for hosting a CDN) or serving static files. This breaks SOP.
There's always hope.
Suing for the Cure?
They ask me tons of questions.
Agreed.

There's another industry that lacks proportionate participation from all visible minorities: veterinary medicine.

> “Contrary to societal trends, veterinary medicine remains one of the least diverse professions in the United States,” the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges said on its site.

> The veterinary community has been working to change that notion, promoting veterinary medicine as a meaningful career path for science-minded students by reaching potential veterinarians long before college with the message that the career can include more than just working with animals. There are also jobs in public health policy or food inspection, said Dr. Beth Sabin, associate director of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Notice that the policy is not shame companies into increasing more diversity, it's let's educate people before they hit the workforce about the benefits of studying and becoming a vet.
> where other Linux distros had rock-solid and professional-quality audio subsystems and software integration

Such as? Remember we're talking Linux in the 2005-era (~2.6.10-ish), not Linux today. JACK was still fairly new at that time. ALSA was still mostly broken at the time. Most stuff still wanted OSS. Basic "does sound come out of the speakers?" was often broken, and god help you if you wanted two things to play audio at the same time.

And you still need to solve the driver problem, which JACK, etc... don't help with at all.
Except for the fact that a job is a prerequisite to affording a comfortable lifestyle. Until something like basic income is implemented (which simply isn't politically practical in the US currently) I don't blame anyone for trying to artificially create jobs to keep people busy and allow them to earn some money.
Much equity does have intrinsic value. I think the lifelong work of both Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet have been focused on acquiring equity (and other assets) with intrinsic value.

A lot of equity, especially with startups, lacks intrinsic value or it's hard to do accurate fundamental analysis on the total intrinsic value. (Berkshire does not buy high tech for this reason.) Moreover the utility value of the equity to you or the limitations on your ability to sell or transfer may make any existent intrinsic value negligible to you as an employee.
Similarly, I've two decades of Perl under my belt and it remains my go-to to quick-and-dirties. But in my field, Python has the mind-share these days and ease of collaboration beats language puritanism, so Perl's on a one-way trip. The reality is that when people leave Perl, they don't come back.
Well consider me surprised. I didn't see that coming.

At first though, when I read through I considered "this is exactly what Stallman didn't want to happen with GCC! Companies using the open-source parts to power their own proprietary tools".

And then I read at the end that they intend to submit most of the things they've done back to LLVM/Clang.

Microsoft is actually starting to act like one of the good guys.
IREX 2015 collaborative robots video roundup
But, but, but...it's in Swift!!!!

It is therefore already vastly superior to any and all full web server and application server solutions and defines how servers will be written in the future.

Particularly, all the web server solutions written in Objective-C have ceased to exist.
It would have to be there or my own alma mater, UIUC. I lived in the dorms there during same era. It was the golden age of WinAmp.
Just plain flagging is just fine for cases like this. This article has indeed been heavily flagged, which has made it rank lower on the front page. It has also gotten a lot of upvotes, which is why it's still on the front page.
The curse of machinery! http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap07p1.html
Self hosted Firefox sync is very complicated to set up correctly
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F02ydx%2C%20Sy...
What’s new in robotics this week? Bosch unveils agricultural robot
Nice, Testsuite As A Service, I like it!
To celebrate this we'd need a sharing of the common wealth. This is the polar opposite of the USA/UK.

Right now we have a people taking the most (much of it through rentier activity) and the rest are given make-work too keep from idle-hands.

If we had land value tax we'd be getting somewhere.
I'm not disagreeing, but you can't just look at the odds of a successful exit when it comes to figuring out the probability that your equity will someday become valuable. There are several other factors that can effectively leave common employees' equity worthless, some of which the article describes. Rarely do companies seem to be willing to provide the information needed to weigh the risks.
Power Mode Atom plugin
Depending on locale, taxi drivers have a feedback system. You can complain to their licensing authority. In some place that complaint is a joke... In other places, it actually works.
Sorry for the hiatus in discussion; I have broken two fingers. I don't think I have the typing stamina to get to all of that, but to react to your last question: when a social arrangement has racist effects, that social arrangement is racist, and will improve by becoming less so. Although you haven't really defined "class" here, one couldn't make the same statement about any sense of "class" without some caveats.

Your example seems to be a largely static one, which is neither realistic nor particularly illuminating. Policing like any "modern" phenomenon is relatively recent, so we should examine the entire narrative of effects rather than taking a snapshot and presuming it to encompass the whole range of possible experience.

Race admits to much less mobility than most other pretexts for oppression. That is bad because it makes society less agile, and because it kills hope and confidence. Both of those emotions are entirely beneficial, so their loss in any subgroup is harmful.
The XIXth century history in Europe would have been much different if it were not for the French revolution (and Napoleon). For horrific Napoleon reign was, it marked the end of the constant warfare that plagued European states before (congress of Vienna).

Pre revolution, France was also one of the most backward political system in Western Europe, especially compared to England or the Netherlands. It also marked the end of the Church power in Western Europe
I have worked with SVG extensively, mostly through Raphael but also with Snap and D3.

It might not be a perfect standard, but it's a glorious feature set the web needs.
active shooter is not "becoming all too-common" and it's a really silly thing to be so concerned about. FBI found 160 incidents of active shooters between 2000-2013 with total of 1,043 casualties (486 deaths and 556 wounded).

Contrast that with other causes of mortality which in one year kill many more: motor vehicle accidents 35,369; peptic ulcers 2,988; gallbladder disorders 3,377; renal failure 46,425

Accidental poisoning killed 8,251 people between the ages of 25-34 in 2013 alone. Stop worrying about active shooters.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/september/fbi-releases...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
An Uber we don't like will be the Uber/Lyft we have now once they dominate their markets.
Here is tracking bug for Firefox Media Source Extensions API https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617
Please stop posting comments that lower the quality of the site even further. Instead, post nothing or find a way to improve the discussion. Quite a few users have done so in this very thread, so you needn't look far for inspiration.
Maybe because the publishing platform he uses doesn't support uploading/pasting it (e.g escapes xml).
A european software dev gets paid more in line with the midwest than SF... 40-50k euros sounds pretty fair in most euro countries. High even.
Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon released
Cloud Computing Weekly Digest with Joe Kinsella: December 4
> I'm really surprised at how hard you are pushing this gut bacteria idea.

I'm really surprised at how hard you are twisting what I've said.

> As I said elsewhere, we've barely scratched the surface of how our bodies are affected by changes in our gut bacteria, and you seem immediately on board with changing it completely in order to help lose weight.

Questioning your basis for finding the idea that interventions involving gut bacteria might be applied, and then challenging the validity of statements you offered in response is different from being "completely on board" with particular interventions. I think its an interesting line of research that opens up both a potential better understanding of the source of the current epidemic and, to some extent independently of whether it does that, might also open a very productive avenue for interventions in an area where the tools we have clearly aren't working very well.

> As I, and others, have said, there is a simpler solution, one that applies positively to all aspects of health and happiness in life: self-control.

Self-control is not a solution -- its a state. A solution is a course of action that can result in a desired state.

> But you seem bent on the idea that 2/3rds of adults considered overweight or obese have "abnormal gut bacteria"

Er, no, I've never said all overweight adults have abnormal gut bacteria. (I wouldn't be surprised if there was a significant correlation, to be sure.)

> and the best solution for them is to completely rewrite it, consequences be damned.

I don't recall ever arguing that the best solution for all (or even any) is to do that; I have said if the evidence shows that the most effective intervention for overall health some subset of that population involves intervention directed at the gut microbiome, it makes no sense to insist that it must be solely addressed as a self-control problem.

You seem to be wedded to the idea of a one-size fits all solution to the extent that not only is it what you offer, but that you can't even see anyone disagreeing with you as offering anything but the same type of solution.
More importantly nothing about DRY overwrites the ideal that making the intent of your code explicitly clear is more important then fixating on micro optimisations. I feel like the code as it is less easy to misunderstand while skim read.
>Why does an SVG look fuzzier than a bitmap at low resolutions?

It doesn't -- it's the same as a bitmap in the default resolution rendered. And it gets even better when you zoom-in on those 'low resolutions'.
There are a bunch of confusing parts. For example:

"Some might think that this is heavy alcoholism, but trust me when I say that having 1–2 drinks everyday in New York is more than normal."

"More than normal" can read as a conflict with the beginning of that sentence (he drinks more than what is considered normal), or, and perhaps more likely, he's illustrating that his level of drinking is normal, if not more normal than most other people, which seems to contradict the meaning of the word "normal".

Or maybe it's 4:30 PM on a Friday and my brain is just fried and I'm over thinking things?
Our current economic system holds that people don't deserve food, shelter, medical care, or dignity if they don't have a job. If you believe that we should stick with the current system then the proposition "everyone should have a job" follows from "everyone should have food, shelter, medical care, and dignity".
It's been mentioned before (I think I saw it here) but trailers like these would be such a great launch platform for drones. They'd no longer be limited to X miles from the Distribution Center, but could just send relatively few trucks out to strategic locations optimized for that day's deliveries, and let the drones launch from there and automatically deliver.

Have battery-swapping robots on the truck too so that your drones can keep delivering packages without a long wait to charge.

30-minute deliveries seems only to be the tip of the iceberg for what drone-powered deliveries could facilitate.
Silicon valley doesn't produce much hardware like it did in the past. Instead it creates businesses with questionable customer value such as social networking, personal assistant services, short term house rental services, and other software-as-a-service businesses. There will be an implosion of these SAAS businesses at some point. After the dust clears, it will be interesting to see if Silicon Valley still is able to produce goods which customers want, or if some other area of the world will take over (e.g. Bangalore, Shenzhen).
> Everybody can learn plumbing too. Doesn't mean the prices are going to fall.

Well, no, because "everyone can learning plumbing" is pretty widely accepted (and has been for quite some time), so the effect of that belief being accepted is already reflected in the current market price. (OTOH, the price is lower than it would be if it were widespread belief that becoming even modestly competent at plumbing required unusual innate gifts that most people lacked, and that attempting to learn plumbing was a complete waste of time for people lacking those gifts.)
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, even when someone seems arrogant. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Fully agree on diet, but you should look at some of the data presented in the book. There is evidence - particularly the book talks about gut sterile mice and some of the studies showcasing weight gain scenarios vs non-sterile biome mice on an exact diet. While it's no silver bullet, dismissing the value of a healthy gut is not productive either. No evidence doesn't mean there isn't something worth pursuing. It's a relatively greenfield area of study at this point in time which is why it's interesting to watch it unfold.
Running

ps auxwwe

on Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix-en will show all processes for all users with their complete environment.

Environment variables should not be used to share secrets.
I have to agree. But it's also a cultural issue. There are disproportionally few American women in tech, but if you look at Eastern Europe, China and India, it's not as skewed, and some of those cultures are sometimes characterized as 'patriarchal'.

So, yes, education but also culture which eliminates cultural barriers --which tend to begin in the home as well as peer groups where someone who wants to study something not popular in that group is steered away from pursing such avenues. It's not feminine, or you're going mainstream, etc (i.e. breaking with subculture dynamics)
Bitcoin? Really? What kind of alternate reality do you live in that there are millions of folks out there with:

(1) bitcoins

(2) the technical wherewithal to use them

(3) actually would consider doing so in a cab?

Bitcoins are exactly the opposite of credit cards, they are far from instant and it's more then a swipe/touch/insert + a pin, signature or even nothing.
As an aside, Antoine Louis is generally credited with designing the guillotine, not Dr. Guillotin, a physician who wanted to reform capital punishment.
Physicists Hope to Be Wrong About the Higgs Boson
I've taken "non-3d" panoramas and viewed them in Cardboard, and that was cool enough. It is certainly the best way that currently exists to share the experience of being somewhere with someone else. I can't wait to try this out; I expect the addition of depth will make it that much more amazing.
Mac OS Classic had no file extensions. I remember they felt like such a hack when switching to OS X, compared to the flexibility of resource forks.
Everybody wants a piece of the customer facing business. That's understandable because most people are familiar with banking through their own interaction as a customer; however, Silicon Valley is missing all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Working in a bank is a technology nightmare. If you could just liberate me and my colleagues from a few horribly designed yet highly used pieces of software, then so much more could get done. You'd probably also save a life or two through the amount of stress better tools would eliminate. I'd do it myself, and I have tried once before with a small undercapitalized team, but doing anything in the financial space is strictly against the terms of my employment.
UpHacks fro all then.
I think its "mostly" implemented in Syllable. Not sure what Haiku did.
Oh, this is so cute...
Yep, cited correctly in the actual errata though.
My initial interpretation of the title was that someone at Amazon had managed to purchase truck trailers for Amazon on Amazon.
Stop questioning The Official Narrative.
even lumping all South Asians together and all East Asians together is pretty silly...

Well, not terribly much more silly than lumping all caucasoids together at least.
It doesn't have to! In fact, it should be driving everyone OUT of a job. It should be driving us to evolve away from the way we survived in the past, by trading time for money.
Google wants your blood
In terms of data warehousing-the data warehouse toolkit (kimball) book is an excellent resource. It covers models for many business areas and also talks about the transactional models the are coming from.
The barrier of entry isn't the problem. The problem is that this segment is going to reduce options to those of the lower class and poverty class.

Now, it may be of the opinion that these people don't matter. And effectively, they have roughly a 0% economic impact.

Now, prices will be driven down. But so will wages and job losses due to more automation. These people in the lowest segments will be separated their transportation via the ways I mentioned.

Now, are less vehicles on the road good? Possibly. However if the public transportation isn't able to handle it, and these auto-Ubers are too expensive, then it's like having no transportation.
We have a very similar problem with Windstream. Their service sucks and it barely reaches the poor speeds that I'm supposed to get. I'm supposed to get 6mbps down and 768kbps up but I usually get more like 1-3mbps down and 200-400kbps up. I have called to complain more times than I can count and basically get a big old middle finger. Wish a service that didn't suck would come in the area but, aside from satellite or a dedicated line of some sort, windstream is the only one available out here.
> There will be an implosion of these SAAS businesses at some point.

Why?
Increase in “DDoS-for-Ransom” against average websites
It's pretty much the opposite. Too much anti-aliasing. At low resolutions, you need to be aware of the pixel boundaries to really make an image look good. Think 8-bit Nintendo/"pixel" art. You can't simply anti-alias a vector image down to a 8x10 pixel sprite. You just end up with a blurry mess.
Related slatestarcodex post: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/08/a-something-sort-of-lik...

"if your job can be done more cheaply without you, and the only reason you have it is because people would feel sorry for you if you didn’t, so the government forces your company to keep you on – well then, it’s not a job. It’s a welfare program that requires you to work 9 to 5 before seeing your welfare check."
I think another way Starbucks helps local coffee shops is by creating an "identity outlet" for the anti-yuppie, anti-corporate crowd. I have friends who never go to Starbucks, and make sure to point that out at every opportunity. So the way they act out that part of their identity is by going to a local coffee shop instead.
I wonder how this works in places that are much more spread out than NYC or San Francisco. I live in Phoenix and there are drive-thru Starbucks at what seems like every intersection but it seems like mom and pop shops are pushed out of this equation here. One popular local shop closed down this year after a drive-thru Starbucks opened up in the same plaza. People here are definitely more in line with corporate (/more convenient?) businesses than the little guys, so maybe that has something to do with it.
All a land value tax will do is drive up rents. A tax on wealth above 2 million USD adjusted for inflation would be better.
And what if they say no?
Hey All!

My current side project is a aggregator for email newsletters.

I set up a few cool things on the back end. When I get a email, I parse out all the email newsletter proxied urls and replace it with the actual link. then I do a OG graph check for title and description info and save it via a /link page.

Each newsletter is self-sustaining once it gets running

I have a little more than 100 emails set up Its about 30 emails sent a day. I just did a major clean up of the pages that were importing partial data, and now am making the entire emails visible per "email" page I do some parsing of the content and try to strip out the unsubscribe/user preference links. Its hard because its dumb text matching and replacing.

I have some email content keyword analysis, using some basic NLP algorithm. That generates keywords based on the email content, then I use those keywords to recommend other emails. Still a lot more to go and everything is pretty raw, but I wanted to share!
Agree based on my experience at Amazon. 95% of the devs I met were extremely professional. Very little joking around, beer drinking, ping-pong, etc compared to other places I've worked. Granted 90% were white/asian males, so not a lot of diversity. Diversity issues - yes, brogrammers - not IMO. Brogrammer seems to be a slur for white males in their 20s.