skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An element of the future economy that I don't see addressed in this comment thread is the ability of technology to improve our ability to DIY. While AI may replace the need to hire labour, sufficiently shareable DIY technology may replace some of the need for people to consume the resources of others.

Granted advanced manufacturing is likely to stay in specialised facilities, but with open source and self replicating tools we may be able to put power back in the hands of the masses.

An obvious step along this path is 3D printing, but I'd argue that wikihow and other sites are greatly increasing the ability of people to meet their own needs. My own interest is in 3D imaging so that computers can reason about the world more readily, and not just replace jobs but replace skilled labour by augmenting our abilities.

Personally I'm more interested in a future where we use our own machines to live how we choose, rather than be given a stipend to buy the labour of machines controlled by increasingly narrow monopolies.
Hopefully for their investors' sake that revenue isn't significantly driven by click fraud, a rumor that's been circulating for years http://thesocialmediamonthly.com/startup-ceo-alleges-massive...

* Is anyone aware of evidence of the extent of click fraud on Facebook? I see a lot of discussion about it but not a lot of data.
They do mention BVH and then the image in the link goes on to mention KD-trees. It's a ray tracer in a weekend. This I think is plenty to start with.
Try adding www instead of hitting the apex. If not github.io urls should still work.
Awww, shucks. Love you too! :-)
Sure, but what developer slightly concerned about website weight doesn't gzip them? (:
Does this look like a DDos attack?
So... you were doing a production redeploy, and it crashed?

The URL "git://github.com/components/ember.git" [1] suggests this is an internal GitHub Bower build log, but your post history doesn't mention anything about GitHub (let alone whether you work there), so I'm not 100.00% sure.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3e00jl...

Assuming this is, in fact, a GH Bower log, the first thing that came to mind was that this architecture isn't (and possibly should be) using a dual-silo approach: when you upgrade, the upgrade gets loaded into a new blank namespace/environment, tested, and if it worked (passes CI test coverage or something like that), the main entry point is switched to the new environment (maybe with a web server restart or config rehash) and the old environment gets purged (possibly after a trial period). The current stack looks quite akin to "click this button to flash the new firmware and DO NOT UNPLUG your device or you'll brick it."

But then I realized... wait. You guys have like... isn't it like, a few dozen RoR worker boxes? Was this crash on the inbound router or something? xD

It's all good though; consider this "curious criticism" - like constructive criticism, but with extra sympathy. And hey, GH's never broken on my watch before (not that I need it atm... hopefully); this is interesting =P
I hail originally from Spain, a country with extremely cheap college education compared to the US. Did free college provide better outcomes? Only to a point. Spain is a country with over 20% unemployment. The country is full of people with college degrees who can't get a job anywhere near their field. Given that degrees are so common, they become artificial gates: You are asked for a degree to do jobs that do not need a degree at all!

How do you really find a good job then? Mostly through family networking. And who has a good family network? The same kids that could afford college regardless. Many college educations are just years wasted, not unlike bad degrees in the US. No matter how many people might think about the wonders of classical educations, and how college taught them to learn, and similar drivel, in practice, those things only matter if you have opportunities handed to you anyway. For people that do not get the opportunities, college is only helpful if it helps them get the opportunities! Whether that's through non-family networking, or because what they studied in college is something in demand in the job market.

When studying the effects of any policy change, we have can't just stop at the first level: We have to see how the rest of the world will react to the primary results to the policy change. It's a bit how student loans didn't really make it that much easier to go to college: What they really did was make all colleges a lot more expensive, making a mistake in major and/or institution that much more dangerous. I think of a friend of mine, Ph.D in Biology with a 6 figure college debt, and no good American jobs that would take her. She's teaching technical english in Japan, because it pays marginally better than her American options! All those years of study, all that money, to go unused, along with being saddled with terrible debt.

So all I am saying is, bad outcomes can happen in a whole lot of cases. Want better outcomes? Create more jobs.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10977731 and marked it off-topic.
Ok, I can understand the price of renting the box, but bandwidth seems unreasonably expensive.
Hello FSF, I want to kick off LibreGulag [0] :(
Please support me too!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
Another angle to consider... My oral surgeon said the nerves in your face migrate around as you age. Later in life, one of those nerves is closer to the wisdom teeth, so the chance of nerve damage during extraction is higher. Edit: I did local anesthesia in the USA. They shot everything up, let it take effect, and then yanked them out. I'll never forget that sound...
Google Play Music - my favorite music collection service. Same price as Spotify ($10/month), but with the bonus of being able to upload 50,000 of your own song files (for any oddball music you have that isn't in their collection) as well as YouTube Red. Generally less buggy and doesn't have Spotify's streak of weird/terrible software design choices. (there's a script for porting your playlists over from Spotify: https://github.com/rckclmbr/pyportify )

Tweetdeck - I'll bet a lot of people on HN already use it, but to any Twitter users still using twitter.com instead of Tweetdeck, I highly recommend giving it a shot. The abundance of information on screen will be overwhelming at first, but give it a day or two, and your brain figures out how to make sense of it and love it.

Pushbullet - Receive and write text messages from your PC via Chrome extension. Receive push notifications for just about anything. I combine it with IFTTT to receive alerts for RSS feeds of blogs and comics I like (my recipes if anyone's curious: https://ifttt.com/p/oxguy3/shared ).
That was never the main design consideration of Git, but you nonetheless can make commits and branches when the server is down. Go try it.
Throughout my life, dentists have wanted my wisdom teeth. I've opted to keep them. At my last checkup, my dentist told me that he had changed his opinion, and no longer takes them out if they're healthy.
It's common and its bullshit. If founders take from funding then so should employees. They should be able to stop worrying about money as much as the founders.
I'm not so sure. New image formats can be decoded in JavaScript, without the need even to install a plugin. That, to me, is much more compelling. Not only do you not have to wait for browser makers, you don't have to wait for users.

That said, it has its limitations.
Not sure why the downvote. This is common practice in many major, non-growth, global companies.

The past two eyars, MSFT have cut a large number of people annually. CSCO have been cutting a large number annually since 2011 (though this is more of a migration of staff to lower cost economies/newer focus areas). HP have a long history of annual staff cuts. Even Google has been cutting staff on an off for the last 4 years (mostly post acquisition).
Fair enough, but I think that's a separate issue. If we go down this path, we'd be diluting the term "UX" to homeopathic levels. I wouldn't criticize an iOS-only app for bad UX because it ignores half the market.
Is GitHub down?
The upstream on cable is not fast enough for screen sharing anything requiring visual detail. It maxes out at 2Mbps or some garbage which means collaborating on something visual is a pain in the ass. ADSL is even worse. For code you can use screen or tmux, but working together on a CAD model or whatnot isn't a great experience.

(I say this as someone happily working from home in the East)
Department of Homeland Security Devices on SF Streets
They had phlebotomists because, as we discovered in the fall, they were still drawing the standard vacutainers for all of the tests except the one that actually worked on the microfluidic system.

The remainder were run through traditional ELISA and clin-chem machinery from other companies.
General relativity killed the idea of faster than light travel a hundred years ago. Newtonian physics has made leaving earth's gravity on a mass scale for longer than that.
That was Zach Holman. He called it TDD - twitter driven development.
Weird, Github is down, but I was able to pull new code not existing on my local repo from Github successfully...
Has anyone measured what percentage of students actually just waste all their time on video games?
Non paywalled google referer version - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Advertising is a very old profession, it predates humans. Flowers are mostly advertising, and most people consider them beautiful. Perhaps there is hope for a startup that could make advertising more like flowers.
Good point, I always forget about that. Thanks.
Even getting read-only access would be nice. I just want to look at some source.
I would prefer that they focus on getting back up and publish a post-mortem after the fact.
Essentially Telstra (the biggest ISP in Australia) charges a fortune for transit. Cloudflare provide some detail about the relatively high cost here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...
Under/over on how many man hours will be spent by engineering teams world wide discussing their github single point of failure issue?
Yup, looks like an editing accident.

In any case, you can probably guess what it was about. Something along the lines of:

var z = nil
let x = y?.getResult(&z)

will z be changed?
Hmm... I have a very good friend who is looking for a better job doing quality, regulatory, or compliance work at a biotech/medical device company. From what I understand, this seems kinda like the stuff a company in this area deals with regularly; It's just that most companies just don't publicize it. Anyway forwarded this to him.

edit: I should clarify, I mean general regulatory issues, I'm not commenting on the specifics, but every company faces audits and inspections.
Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?...but decreasing the cost of living as well.

I note decreasing the cost of living is by definition deflation. Preventing deflation is an explicit objective of central banks around the world.

I think there are gaps in our economic knowledge. There are different types of deflation, such as deflation through technology, deflation through a economy restructuring itself, deflation through cyclical unemployment. Central banks don't differentiate between them, and do all they can to prevent all of them from happening. It's like taking immune system suppressants because the white blood cell count is high, no matter the situation, even when it's high because you've got a cold.

Therefore, I think startups that can be involved in increasing our knowledge of the economics can increase prosperity for everyone, so central banks don't perform actions that prevent people from becoming prosperous.
If you live on a coast or where they treat roads with salt, then wash your car periodically to prevent rust.
The interrottron look great. I've search a bit , and there's even DIY instructions for building something similar , pretty easy:

http://makezine.com/projects/eye-contact-device/

I wonder why it hadn't caught up?

Also , if you turn the screen/camera 90 degrees , you may be able to capture body language.

With regards to #3/#4 would working in a local communal center, remotely to your job would work ? Is it possible to design some culture that would help with the motivation problem ?

Anyway, it feels like something that deserves a sub forum of it's own, with a community experimenting and sharing, right ?
You say you've thought this for years. What would have to happen to change your mind? The world seems pretty innovative.
Tooth root sensitivity is a well know cause of headaches as i recall. You aren't alone. I had years of terrible headaches spawning from an enflamed area above one of my molars (not wisdom tooth though). After finally getting a root canal the frequency dropped dramatically.
> How about don't write shitty software. Just because joes flower shop wants shitty custom database software doesn't mean I can't push the state of art and what's possible.

"I write perfect software, which will always either crash or run perfectly." Given the fact that runtimes like Python and Node have had problems in this field, I'm calling bullshit.

But that glosses over the fact that you might need to run some software that you didn't write (shocker, I know). If that software has non-fatal failure modes, logs won't help you. Logs won't help you with most fatal failure modes anyway (you need coredumps in most hard cases).

Thinking that "stop writing shitty software" is a solution to the existence of bugs is just harmful to anyone who has to manage your software. If you think your software had never failed, that's because the people debugging it didn't want you in the room at the time.
Ah. True, my mistake.
Interesting, and plausible. Plausible is too weak a word - almost certainly this will be true for at least some of the recipients. But the other side also seems plausible to me - that there will be some recipients who already know (much of) what they need to know about personal responsibility, effort, and so on, but whose road is much harder because of lack of resources at the starting point.

So one of the points of the research project would be to find out what fraction of people are in each group (with "all" being one possible answer). And then it gets harder: If, say, 60% of people are prevented from growing in ways they need to, and 40% of people are enabled to soar, then is this a good thing to do?
I missed the mention of BVH - good enough. At the end it says something about performance, which can't be achieved without something like that.
I disagree with your opinion on the CEO. Intelligent? clearly, but also weird to the point that it's uncomfortable to watch her speak, and she's clearly very bad at handling the press.
There was a statement in the movie that went something like, "After Deep Blue was announced the winner, IBM's stock jumped 15%" I took a look at the historical data Yahoo(?) had for that date and there was no spike at all for IBM.

They frame it as some huge setup by IBM, but to me, it just seemed like Kasparov got psyched out and thrown off his game.
This sounds so much like WiMax and that didn't succeed. Why would I believe this will?
DeLoreans Coming Back to Production
Against Security Nihilism
That's actually pretty much what I understood you to mean (though I actually read it more narrowly than that). What I'm saying, broadly, is that the "large NYC elite" has achieved regulatory capture to the point where it is effectively impossible for any startup to enter the market. This is the reason that they can continue to eat up more and more of the economy while providing a dubious ROI.
> That is confusing. Maybe he just doesn't like unikernels.

This is true. He has expressed hatred of them for a very long time. I'm not sure why (this article appears to explain it, but I don't feel particularly convinced by some of the points).
Thinking about this more, this could be automated to some degree. You could have a bot that listens and responds when key words appear somewhere online. You could use Google's API for when it's bot finds something of interest to you "As it happens"

This would only get you so far. What if a user has a question? How will you help them out if it's a bit. The solution?

Write API's for every site that you want to use. You can either scrape every site for responses that fit your criteria, or let google do the digging for you with the "as it happens" notifications which would indicate that you have to scrape that site for the information.

If the information you get from the site is something you want to respond to, you can.

- - -

Holy fucking shit.

I just described a system that would allow for you to use all websites as inboxes for chat messages.

- - -

Refine:

With this early model, we would have one program on our machine that would understand X websites. It can parse user comments directed at us from a website (A). It can send responses back to A, and so on.

Now, users on Program X can chat with theoretically any
person on any website (A, B, ...), but users of website A can only chat with other people on website A OR people using Program X.

Why doesn't everyone use program X? Because it does not exist yet.
GitHub Status: “...significant network disruption...”
BTW, if you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free.

I think I know what I'm doing this weekend...
The central problem for a long time has been that central banks have done this with the effect being rising prices (or at least prevention of deflation) almost everywhere except wages.
Google is all about searching for results and Facebook is all about demography and thus brands.

So Facebook is taking a lot of advertising budget to establish brands that used to be for print and television.

Simple example: Diapers. By the time you have a baby, Facebook knows that you as a couple are expecting and you will see ads establishing relevant brands. You would never see those ads on Google, because at that time you're not searching for them.
This used to be the business of television advertising. So you know the brand Pampers long before you ever think of buying a pack of them.
It's time Google removed Forbes from search: SEO
Look at the most basic need: food. Demand is relatively constant - you need enough to eat, and shouldn't eat too much (obviously in practice there is a certain amount of elasticity and differences in demand for different types of food). Supply of food already exceeds demand (look at food waste, supermarkets tossing out ugly produce or burning unsold items to maintain their profit margin). So - demand for food barely goes up, supply continues to exceed demand.
Assuming you pay someone to maintain it, maybe. Which costs a lot more than a github/bitbucket contract.
Facebook is the biggest scam for most businesses.

1) They've pulled bait and switch when they decided to charge to reach users that have already liked your page. Most of those users liked your page because you've posted a link to FB on your site.

2) Click fraud is rampant [1]

3) They make money on copyrighted videos + ripping off YouTube content creators [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
ok this is actually really annoying now
As a VMware employee from 2007 to (January) 2014 the only time I recall any fear from leadership or product teams about HyperV was in 2008 or so when it was about to come out and then for a little while after it first came out. We knew we had a several year lead over Microsoft and wanted to make sure we stayed ahead of them feature-wise. After 2009 I don't even recall people bringing up Microsoft or HyperV in conversation; we were more focused on competing with cloud platforms.
I expect that they are passing on the cast of laying oceanic cable as well.
These are possibilities for great growth, if the technology can be developed. The first 3 are 50-100 years away though.

1) Asteroid mining and construction in space.

2) Nanotube or other materials technology enabling space elevators or Skyhooks, or other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

3) Fusion through alternatives to tokomaks

4) Self driving, electric cars

5) AI and robotics

6) Micro Black holes as power sources (ok this one's 500-1000 years away)
I did that too. Destroyed out Zabbix database. Neither that Zabbix server, nor the other one monitoring the server I destroyed, could alert us that anything had gone wrong for over an hour. I finally realized it when I couldn't login...

I was able to painstakingly rebuild the server after 9 hours without anyone noticing. To this day one of my biggest fuck ups and prouder accomplishments.
I heavily rely on Github # tags to document my codebase. Failures like this make me wonder if there is any way to decouple my codebase from Github while preserving all the comments and issues on commits I've built up.
millimeter waves? the skin-burning police crowd control device is 95GHz, ie. 3.2mm wavelength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System#Effects
Yeah, I am confused by the existence of a status report for a time 3.5hrs in the future. Guess they're just trying to get ahead of the game and set some realistic expectations.
The problem with applying the same logic to hypervisor'd unikernels is that hypervisors make the guest system opaque. So how could you meaningfully run DTrace on that system?
git != github. If you're worried, you can always push to another remote in the meantime. Does svn do that?
The short version is that I got hit pretty hard in 2008 when the economy melted down. I was working as a tech recruiter for startups, and I was being referred around by a few venture capitalists. When the VCs stopped investing, their portfolio companies stopped hiring, and my income dried up pretty quickly.

Being a savvy and sensible business person, and thinking that I had a surefire idea that was guaranteed to work, I took the money I'd set aside for taxes and seed funded my startup. I learned along the way that building software is hard, expensive, and that my idea wasn't something I could easily execute on.

I did bounce back, and now I'm a full time developer with a healthy appreciation for what it actually takes to get a company off the ground :)
Most office workers need email. Your needs are niche, I'm not saying that you should not go to the office or have awesome internet, I'm saying your needs are not the same as the average.

However, I do anticipate that a culture shift to working from home will require higher bandwidth as more services move to the cloud and as workers start to require video conferencing.
This is why I run my own GitLab server as a mirror! Or just in case GitHub gets hit by a bus.
@sama: i think you've chosen the wrong format to do this. To lower cost of living, i.e. transform the economy is a huge task , that would require much more research effort than a thread.

On the other hand , you've got access to an extremely talented and large group of people, and if you steered them towards a group of sub communities all highly focused on working together to find solutions to each of the individual sub problems - than i'm sure we'll see lots of great ideas and insights.

That's all assuming it's possible to build such collaboration. But the goal is so appealing to many , so i think it's possible.
Following this link from HN might not get you what you want…
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775
Ugh. It has also killed my productivity this last hour because an API I was supposed to be writing against is only hosted GitHub.
" I'm not a medical person"-then I'm not going to take your scare mongering anecdotal evidence.
I am not, sort of. You can refer to a country by "she", so why is it inappropriate for a company? I don't see any issues. You can view a company as a mother too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5238164

Still not solved... calm down Google!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775