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I think that human produced content is at a peak. Like call center employees, the management has to balance the ability for people to shovel out crap articles with the burnout rate. HuffPo, Buzzfeed, and others are clickbait farms that have high turnovers [0]. The content is not very deep, but they put out a lot. This is something that can, and is in the process of being, easily automated. Much sports journalism is already automated [1], why can't these clickfarms be the same too? 538 and other sites that just do stats can easily just have a giant number database that output correlations for click's sake. That would ruin their userbase, but may expand it. The issue at heart is what does a click mean? Currently it is linked to a person that you can then show an ad at to sell something. However, it is more and more likely that those ads are worthless wastes of dollars to the sellers. Other older methods, like mail with a robot that 'handwrites' a note to you from the company, may be more profitable as ads.

[0]http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/the-econ...

[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34204052
Yes, you're paying with attention. Absolutely.

http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/27/pay/

That truth still doesn't mean nothing can be free. There are free things in the world, and there's a vested interest by some parties to convince people otherwise. If you sell things, you want to convince people that no free options exist.
Assuming we were able to build a robot that looked and behaved identically to a human, which jobs could not be replaced?
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I've spoken about Apple's support model before, it's pretty straight forward. They only support something as long as it suits their interests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10074484
It would be wise to look at the big players for specific industries. As an example for automotive, look at the tier 1 suppliers such as Bosch, Delphi, Continential or Johnson Controls, or even the vehicle manufacturers themselves who does software work, like Volvo Cars, Jaguar Land Rover, General Motors, Renault Trucks

Go through industry you are interested in, do some googling and a list of potential companies can be found.
>I wonder what this 40% consisted of.

Tangentially, this must have always been the case, perhaps it was even worse when measurements were hard to come by. During pure print media days, lots of what they thought people read was through wholly inaccurate methods. So that forty per hundred is probably much improved over how it used to be.
I thought the problem with hydrogen as a fuel was storage --- liquification requires cryogenic temperatures and is very energy inefficient, compressed gases require heavy storage vessels and has terrible energy density, infusing it into the surface metals has poor energy density and is problematic for other reasons... actually turning it into energy is pretty well understood; it's getting it to where it's needed that's not.

Or has something changed since I last looked at this?
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> The default on Linux is source code availability.

You live in quite the dream world.
Thats a very good idea! RSS is just nothing more than updating some xml. Super easy to make and can host on static website.
I'm saying that a lot of people end up running Docker in a VM... why?

I'm also saying that dumping a bunch of files from a developer's laptop into a Docker image is going to be a nightmare in terms of lifecycle management (how about a subsystem rollback or upgrade inside of that image?)

And finally, I'm saying I see no point to Docker, if I can just make OS packages and run them inside of zones. With zones, I have a fully functional UNIX server in complete isolation and security; with Docker, I have a re-invented init which isn't really init, and if I want SSH and all the other things one normally expects of a system, I have to engineer them myself. Why would I use Docker if I can use zones in SmartOS? What does Docker buy me?
The concern isn't whether someone is ever advertising an idea or whether they have a conflict of interest. The concern is whether they are paying to have special access to someone's attention. Yes, this can be seen as an ad. But if the author didn't pay to be able to put the article there, then it's different from what ads are generally.
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Been thinking about doing something like that exactly...
If you want a job in finance, I think you should apply for a bunch of such jobs, despite your lack of experience. You might well find someone willing to give you a try. Be prepared for long hours.

Otherwise, I think you should pick a specialty within CS to focus on. Distributed systems, perhaps -- they're hot right now and that shows no signs of changing; operating systems, maybe; compilers, maybe. I don't know for a fact that BS-level jobs in these areas exist, but they might. Anyway, decide what you're most interested in, and if you can't get a job in that with a BS, go back to school.
https://czds.icann.org/en It has been largely automated now so you can request access to the files with one click vs having to sign and email hundreds of forms. Approval seems to be automatic for most of them.
Do citizens get to file damage claims against the government when a corporation harms public health and nutrition, or socio-economic development?

No. The TPP is an agreement to guarantees foreign corporate interests are served at least as high priority as local civilian interests, and there is no reverse law that give governments the right to fine corporations that harm their citizen (e.g., as in Bhopal)

You seem hung up on the point the governments are choosing to agree to pay off multinational corporations, and choosing not to defend their citizens' interests, as though that's somehow OK because the governments made that decision voluntarily.
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Oh! Didn't know about that. Should sign up and check out the features.
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And Oracle, god make their sandals rot, have "Application Express", often abbreviated to ApEx.
But they can't be stealing any identifying information right? At best it can count the number of times the package was downloaded.

Isn't the solution for npm to have tighter controls on where it will download packages from?
While this is interesting, it doesn't change my opinion that the future is electric, not hydrogen fuel cell. Not only for the way hydrogen is extracted but the complexity of the technology. These set of blogs[0] are by a non-expert, but explain well why it's actually more complex than the ICE and inferior to electric.
Highly recommended reading for laymen like myself who want a view at the technology from a common sense standpoint.

My personal view outside of the needless complexity and lack of fueling stations, is that it's conveniently a way to ensure automakers keep us reliant on their expertise to repair and build these vehicles. Rather than the mechanical simplicity thus commodities that electrics are becoming.

As well, having China onboard with electrics ensures its future. It's mainly the Japanese and some US companies that want to push HFC. If electrics win out (and they more than likely will), everyone (including Apple) will be selling cars because it'll be mostly a software game.

I'm very much looking forward to the Tesla Model 3 reveal and putting down my preorder. Strangely enough it feels like this is going to be one of those breakthrough products for me. Alongside my Commodore did in 1986, 3dfx Voodoo card did in 1996, and the upcoming SteamVR (HTC Vive).

Great time to be alive.

[0]http://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/11470/why-fuel-cell-car...
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first time I hear about it! Crazy how many tools try to solve this kind of problem nowadays :O
> There's a lack of embedded programming jobs being offered by manufacturers in California right now. I live in San Diego and it is terrible.

What about in LA or in the Bay Area? Have you explored moving within California?
Travel. It will only get harder to coordinate with a partner and children in the future.

Take leave or negotiate unpaid leave if you have to. Try just a weekend at first.

If you think you can't afford to travel, find travel you can afford. That might be domestic, camping, sleeping in the back of a car on a road trip, going to less-in-demand national parks. See and do something new.
This trend has parallels with the games industry. Many publishers and developers decided long ago that monetization above all else was the goal, and it didn't matter if that meant pumping out title after title with terrible production values and sleazy monetization strategies.

Zynga pioneered this approach to such a degree that they were essentially the BuzzFeed of interactive entertainment. Later, many AAA games would follow suit embracing the Free-to-Play model. Higher production values with the same sleazy monetization strategies. The end result was games of all types selling their soul in the name of making a quick buck.

Web content has the same problem. In the face of content becoming a commodity, the reaction thus far has been to produce more content. More content means lower quality content. Lower quality content results in monetization becoming more difficult, and thus prevalent. More prevalent monetization leads to ads. Ads kill page performance, thus driving anyone away who doesn't have an ad blocker. That in turn leads to idiotic things such as paywalls and traditional media being turned into a glorified blogging platform (cough Forbes). It's a race to the bottom.

The solution to this of course, is to simply make a high quality product. Ensure the content is top-notch, kill anything that isn't. Make sure page performance is excellent. Hand-curate ads such that they're non-invasive, fast, and not killed by ad-blockers. Admittedly the last point is difficult, but it can be done. If the publication is sufficiently niche, a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads; nautil.us is a fantastic example of this.

In the end, it boils down to the classic error of the suits screaming "monetize!", ruining their product and shooting themselves in the foot in the process. This same dynamic applies to games, print media, and even startups alike. There's a reason YC constantly reiterates that monetization efforts are foolish in the face of a product that isn't great.
I also try to point out to him when other kids are good
at something. I tell him, Peter is really good at that.
He must have practiced a lot to get that good.

I think this can backfire (with them hearing "why are you not as good as Peter?").

Aside from trying to encourage productive mindsets, I think it's also important that they know that they have intrinsic value as people, regardless of what they accomplish.
Check how long I've been here. Not only did I know all of that, but it's the entire reason why I left a reply, and why I've stayed on the site. The goal was to characterize the problem for you in a way that you may not have considered, and I was trying to be thorough about it. (I also tried to come up with some new idea so that it wouldn't read as a complaint, even if it was probably a bad one.)

Making the Principle of Charity part of the guidelines implies that you'll ban people who specifically refuse to follow it. When I said "It probably won't work," I meant "Remember orange usernames, and how badly it fragmented the community? Just be careful." Dealing with these people by trying to apply social pressure might backfire, since they are very vocal and motivated by something other than curiosity.
Unfortunately we have to care for an aging parent, or we would have moved when it got bad.
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Can be, but the vast majority of stories posted to HN aren't hard to put a year to.
Well, a survey of AI researchers in the 60's would have said we'd have AGI by now. Surveying researchers in a field is not a reliable method for determining truth.
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I think it's because it has historically been low-status work and stigma about working on the front-end persists. The majority of people I've worked with are eager to throw up their hands and commiserate with others about their lack of understanding about CSS (which, for some reason, indicates you are of higher status) rather than learning about how it works and doing a bit of memorization.

I personally have no problem doing front-end work when I have to and I think the fact that I don't drag my feet or complain about CSS has allowed me to learn it to a degree that has made it reasonable and quick to do.

Also most of the shitty parts of front-end development have been abstracted away with things like CSS vendor auto-prefixing and tools like ClojureScript and reagent. One of my favorite parts of the stack now, actually (when I can use those tools).
I find it amazing there is enough disposable cash to go around so that there is such a market for rare antiquities. I would presume these are not purchased by museums or institutions but by private collectors. I guess I still marvel at the vastness of some fortunes.
Would be nice to see something like Apex that can work on Lambda or within some kind of deployable service, so that the environment it actually ran on was abstracted, avoiding vendor lock-in. I haven't seen any projects yet that try to make the Lambda interface portable though.
This isn't a web problem, this is a division of labor problem. There's plenty of specialization to be had to as you advance career wise, and by logical progression of the web platform. It sounds like you haven't found the right position fit, which isn't uncommon early in your career.
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By default, Docker will use the AUFS storage backend if available, and then fall back to devicemapper on loopback.

RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora do not ship the AUFS kernel module because it is not part of the mainline Linux kernel and is unlikely to be included in future, and these distros have an "upstream first, no out-of-tree bits" policy. Instead, they recommend using devicemapper on LVM [1][2].

The same advice is provided in the official Docker documentation [3]:

> Docker hosts running the devicemapper storage driver default to a configuration mode known as loop-lvm... The mode is designed to work out-of-the-box with no additional configuration. However, production deployments should not run under loop-lvm mode... The preferred configuration for production deployments is direct lvm.

You might consider using CentOS Atomic Host, which comes preconfigured with LVM thin pools.

OverlayFS is also an alternative, but it can be problematic. It only implements a subset of the POSIX standard [4], which can cause some programs to fail.

[1] http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/06/notes-on-fedora-cen...
[2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterpris...
[3] https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/storagedriver/devic...
[4] https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/storagedriver/overl...
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At last, the thing that's unreasonable isn't effectiveness. I've been hoping for a while that someone close to the field would cut through the hype and put ANNs in context.
If the only instructions or working distribution for a piece of software is a Docker image and you're not into Docker, than that is probably not an OSS project you should use.

I learned this the hard way with Bosun. I should have just avoided it totally, and saved a bunch of time.
This article is a little disingenuous in how it represent this as something revolutionary.

Using remote sensing has a long and storied tradition in archaeology. The archaeology department at my university regularly flew out to collect photos of the region, and had been doing so since the seventies. Not to mention the use of balloons and dirigibles in the dilettante era of the profession.

Calling this "space archaeology" is more of a smart rebranding of an established practice. It is not a recent evolution in the profession, neither is it something where “More and more people are realizing there’s this incredible tool". But "space" sounds fancy. Second, framing this as a tool in the battle against looting is typical of the TED minset. Grab yer technology A, grab yer problem B, shake it up, and boom, new shticky hook to take on the roadshow. It's like saying, hey, with email we can write warrants real efficiently so we can do searches in warehouses. MS Word a great tool in the battle against looting. It sort of is, but it also isn't.

It is true that Google and Bing maps have democratized aerial photography. But much of the highest resolution photos that Google or Microsoft has for many regions in the world are not collected by satellites but still by airplanes. This is especially the case for the oblique photographs (aka "bird's eye) which add a lot of complimentary value when doing site selection.
Wow, I didn't think this would get much of a response and I really appreciate all the advice given thus far.

I realize now that I really should have been more specific about a couple of points. First, by "web job" I mostly mean jobs that would be characterized as "full stack". This is what I currently do for a living (enterprise, for a company with 1000+ employees), and from what I can tell this is mostly what's being advertised in job postings. There are many things one could do deep in the depths of some company's back-end that I wouldn't consider a "web job".

As far as what domain I'd rather be working in, that's really the 10 million dollar question. I feel like it's time for me to make a decision and specialize, but I really can't narrow it down to one, single domain. I've taken a machine learning course and really enjoyed that. I did some work with parallel computing in CUDA with a professor while in school and ended up with my name on a paper that made its way into a peer-reviewed journal. I've done a decent amount of hobby game and network programming, hacked a bit on an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi, and I've recently been getting into audio DSP stuff. I really like a lot of different things and I'm more than a little afraid to limit myself to one area for the rest of my career.
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I wouldn't quite go as far as to call Borg a PaaS. It's at a somewhat lower level, closer to IaaS. You get a known quantity from it in the form of a stable, tuned, stripped down underlying Linux image, plus a relatively small set of services, but you can deploy pretty much whatever the hell you want without a lot of constraints a "true" PaaS would force you to accept.
> I. Can. Not. Fucking. Stand. the front-end work. I don't know why

In my experience, it's a simple matter of it never being done, and people always being unhappy with it. You can anticipate every possible need, streamline the steps needed for the most common and/or important tasks, and spend a gazillion hours making it look pretty-- not only will no one be impressed, but someone will always complain about something. There is never any 'right' way to do it. It's a black hole.

With back end stuff, it's like, does it work without making a mess and not overuse resources? Ok, good job! What are we building next?
Yes. I agree with you. Have many other good uses for Docker. But I found LXC easier, as it's possible assign a public IP and let the chef mange the iptables/service discover exactly like a VM/baremetal. Docker drops almost all caps, which is great for security, but isn't possible a container manage his own isolated iptables.
I think that's not quite the full story; my site cross references a bunch of lists and allows you to see which books were on (for example) both the Army and Navy reading lists, shows past revisions, allows you to keep track of what you read, etc.

That said, I'm protesting too much; you're right and I won't submit any more links to there.
You should read Nick Bostrom's superintelligence and look into what AI can actually do today.

I went from being incredulous like you to apprehensive like Musk/Gates/Hawkings.
Glacier pricing has to be the most convoluted AWS pricing structure and can really screw you.

Google Nearline is a much better option IMO. Seconds of retrieval time and still the same low price, and much easier to calculate your costs when looking into large downloads.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline?hl=en
I can build it on Debian 64 bit but it always crashes. Otherwise I'd be using it already.
So, my company is not in the Chicago area but we are a startup with a decent web presence (ecommerce/pharmacy/brick and mortor shipping/data science) and we have a whole back end team. I'm the manager of the front end engineering team (50% swift/Java, 50% JavaScript very little html/css since we use react.js and are porting existing ext.js) and the backend team writes a ton of rest api's, message queue processors, scheduled processes, and integrates with a bunch of third party api's. We also have a healthy and growing data science team. Point being don't write off a place just because it looks mostly web based.

As a side note if you want to move to Portland Maine, contact me I might have a cool place for you to work. :)
Up until a year ago, the correct answer to "Where are all the non-web jobs?" was "China".

Stats for the USA from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/c...

1990 Number of Jobs 565,000

2010 Number of Jobs 363,100

2012 Number of Jobs 343,700

All kidding aside, the correct answer is still "China". Computer programming jobs follow employment in manufacturing. If employment in manufacturing is rising in one country, but falling in another, the computer programming jobs will be rising in the first country but falling in the second country.

This year, even the Chinese economy is slowing down. But it is important to keep the long-term in mind. Over the last 30 years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of all types of computer programming jobs in the USA.

There is a tiny subset of the industry that is growing, and we associate these with the startups in San Francisco and New York. But so far these startups have not created enough jobs to offset the jobs lost due to other factors.

This suggests that there must be a vast reservoir or programmers who would like programming jobs, but they can't work as programmers because the jobs have disappeared.

If the numbers were smaller, you could argue that the loss of jobs was due to inaccuracies in the way Bureau of Labor gathers statistics. But the drop from 565,000 jobs to 343,700 is too large to be a spurious blip.
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