skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's "only" about $85k/year, and as many others have pointed out the value of the building is not likely to go to zero (although seeing the ghost of Detroit...)

Anyhow, not saying I support it, but at the salaries Google can afford it makes sense...
You probably don't have much experience with larger companies. I envy you for that.

Yes, companies seem such opaque entities from the outside, but they are mostly driven by the wills of the topmost two layers. Remove key players from those layers and you see billions of dollars moving in strange new directions.
When I was in school in the late 90s it seemed like all of the robotics and AI research were in create algorithms to emulate behavior. Boston Dynamic's work seems to be extended from that. They purpose built a robot with purpose built balancing and walking algorithms. The being pushed over and getting back up demonstration seemed to confirm that to me.

Everything I'm seeing these days with AI research seems to be about developing systems that learn for themselves. Rather than telling the robot/AI exactly how to behave in a given situation, it's about allowing the robot/AI to experience as many situations as possible and learn what the appropriate response should be so that in the future it can independently identify and react accordingly.
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I'm sorry but the notion the the Labor force will evolve because it has in the past is just an over simplification of a complex process and presupposes most humans are capable of being retrained for a job not slated for obsolescence. Technology can only be useful to those who can use it, if we're honest with one another and looking at the futures for the uneducated masses of the planet most of them aren't necessary going forward. Like it or not seismic shifts in technology have often been coupled with massive reductions in human population, and this will most likely be the case as below replacement birthrates in first world nations sets us on a collision path in the next decade, which will be exacerbated by automation of repetitive task jobs.
Given that Courtney is the Director of Communications, she may be overly focused on her own position's perspective on the news.
It should be no surprise...
As far as parody/satire accounts go, I'm a huge fan of @BoredElonMusk. I hadn't even noticed that there haven't been tweets from Startup L. Jackson in months...
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The NSA did do its job - it performed a cost/benefit analysis and said _NO_.
Do 'we' buy them? My experience is that registrars watch them expire and buy them themselves for a hefty resale or a 3rd party broker does for resale. I tried buying an old domain of mine and some broker had it for $2500. This is very common.
"That said, now I'm worried that an actual defense contractor will get those robots."

Why is this worrying?

If you're afraid that the military will do something evil with the robots, you're going to be dismayed to learn that they already have automatic rifles, tanks, and atomic bombs.
It's basic and obvious to those of us who are good at programming. But not all of us are programmers and this may give them some insight through an applied, real world example about what is obvious to us but apparently not obvious to every programmer.

No, we don't need every tutorial or every Go thread to come up, but this one wasn't so bad.
Time for an update on things from Kurzweil?

http://singularityhub.com/2013/03/19/exclusive-interview-ray...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/
It looks interesting...
This is a great tale - and clearly an obvious vulnerability. Most of the situations I've entered into are less clear cut however, its organizational policy choosing the easy way out (and being able to tick the 'best practices' box at the same time) over more practical solutions that actually work for a majority of the needed users.
If you owned the product of your labor (i.e. the automation of your job) then it should make no difference. The trouble is, then when you create an automaton that replaces a $100K/year employee, then the creator gets f*ed.

Put another way, if you could create a way to automate your job entirely, then there also has to be a guarantee that doing so will not result in you getting fired. Alternatively, if you automate someone else's job, then the company needs to be responsible for training them to do a new job. Even if this is not practical or possible in all cases, it needs to be the case more often. Right now, corporations pay the government to solve this problem (not voluntarily), but the government does a pretty bad job of helping. Ideally corporations interested in any social responsibility need to solve this problem themselves. When the automation revolutions becomes real enough to threaten executive jobs, I suspect they'll solve it pretty quickly.
Hope some new/tech Billionaire buys it, just cause robots are cool and they want them to advance. I would! I really want to ride a big dog around my neighborhood / to work.
No, he explained why the labor force would go up - some people won't work at $7/hour but will at $15. That's not the same thing as these people being better employees.

...want the better paying jobs which may not exist cause companies want to get away with the most profitable scenario which is paying employees the absolute minimum.

Yet most jobs in the US pay far more than minimum wage. Why would they do this if paying minimum wage is the "most profitable scenario"?
Well there is this https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: Speaking of go have you seen the new OK go video?
They do have those, many are from acquisitions like Chapel Hill.
Does Google actually have a history of destroying companies that they acquire?
I refuse to participate in the worker wellness program for this very reason. The $10/mo I'm giving up isn't nearly worth the data that I'm coughing up in exchange...
Also known as "we'll fix it later".
What is Energy?
If it was BBN Technologies building the foundation of ARPANet, or millions of other civilian-applicable technologies... yes.
If he couldn't, why would he command millions of dollars in compensation?
The point is that this informs the compiler of that behavior of free so that it can optimize it away. Basically it gives you some of the advantages you'd get if free were a compiler intrinsic (which it might be, idk).
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What they have to build and how long it will take them are moot points and detract from the overall argument which is can the gvt use the AWA to compel a 3rd party to create something that didn't exist before.
Have you ever tried Atom? Its interface is written in HTML5 + CoffeeScript, and it targets CoffeeScript as the primary language. Tell the GitHub guys about tooling...

But besides, judging a language based on available tooling is akin to judging a CPU based on the computer casing looks.

For a real programmer, GNU Nano with appropriate highlighting should be enough. If a language calls itself "high-level" but makes the coding process hard without tooling, it deserves no attention at all.
> I don't understand why Google decided to buy a company so tied to DOD contracts if it did not want to continue that work.

My experience in this area is quite limited, but it's surprisingly difficult to find companies doing this type of research that are not tied to the DoD in some way. DARPA is a major source of funding for these projects, and many of them wouldn't get funded at all without the government.
Some people make the case that war should remain dangerous so countries are reluctant to start wars. Or maybe some see a trajectory from robotic mules to robotic weapons platforms. In those cases, no amount of search-and-rescue window dressing would change their minds.
What is your basis for calling the NSA petty? Or claiming it was a personal grudge?

There may have been valid (short-term) reasons as to why it would have been difficult (or costly) to provide her with a POTUS-like solution.

But the overall sense I get from the article (and in my view, the bigger issue at play here) is that Clinton and her secure technology coordinator (Donald Reid) felt they weren't being given a credible explanation as to why their request would be unworkable. And (subjectively) felt they were being ignored generally with regard to their request.

(And BTW no, the partial explanation they were given -- "use has expanded to an unmanageable number of users" -- meaning presumably legions of underlings probably shouldn't have been granted exceptions in the first place, is not, on the face of it, a credible explanation as to why an exception can't be granted for the 2nd most important office holder in the Executive Branch).

Only the US president himself is the exception to this rule

Umm, what "rule", and why is the POTUS the only exception?

These are the questions that Clinton and Reid were apparently unable to get an answer to.
That's a characterization I didn't make. What I stated were the consequences of higher min wages. It benefits citizens as well as high skills foreign nationals in the US but is possibly detrimental to low skills labor. There is no judgement in that, just stating the consequences, some positive, some negative. Not all low skills labor come from directly across the border.

On the other hand it benefits higher skills workers from across the border because there will be more demand for high skills labor.
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There's likely another side to this- if Alphabet is putting a lot of money into a product type whose only past or foreseeable buyers are the US gov't, that would give the Feds some pretty fierce leverage in the event that Android winds up in a decryption legal battle like there's currently brewing over iPhones. BD could doubtlessly come up with something new for military gadget-buyers, but its unlikely to be such an emphatic killer app that their funding couldn't be used as a bargaining piece.
One of Ray Kurzweil's predictions is that the exponential growth of technology is really going to surprise a lot of people when we start hitting the hockey growth phase. What looks to be 20 years out may be getting solved in 2 or 3 years, or even sooner. Perhaps google is making such progress in AI, they sense the public may turn against them if they have both AI and robots. I'm probably wrong, but just a theory. Kurzweil does work for Google by the way.
To be fair, JS appears in 'loved' as Node.js.
> The marine corps passed on big dog as "too loud" at the end of 2015, that killed a potential customer for that product.

and if you look at the latest gen, the robots clearly are quieter-so BD is still listening to the needs of the military.

My take: This company can make boku bucks selling to the military, but not while Google is the parent. They've had military applications in mind this whole time, but held back from making the sales. To let this company soar, it needed to get out from under the google umbrella.

Google wont sell to the military, but apparently they will fund years of R&D for military use cases. Unfortunately the sale price that google will get for BD will take into account the future Military contracts that will be available now. Meaning Google will be indirectly profiting off selling robots to the military.
was just kidding ... LOL
Ok, I made an unnecessary leap from knowing that many people do feel threatened by the increasing problem solving abilities of computers to assuming you are one of them. so I stand corrected, and in light of your response understand that my sermon was misplaced in this context.

I don't disagree with you at all. In fact, I think probably we're headed for the same improvements over time with machines playing Go as was with machines playing Chess. I think that in addition to better algorithms, Chess had the advantage of having Moore's law being in full swing over these years, which will probably slow down, but there's always something new and unexpected coming up, so beyond multiple processors and GPU's with lower energy consumption I'm sure there will be even further improvements in the machine learning methods and other things that I can't yet imagine.
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But the sizes you're switching between are different for every user.

The goal here is to adjust font size appropriately for users with different viewport widths. The interactive smooth-scaling effect that you get when drag-resizing the browser window is nice, but it's a side effect, not the actual goal of the technique.
Sketch has a great share of mind right now, and they managed to do what people needed the most in a really easy way, but there's nothing really attractive about it that can't easily be replicated (hence the number of clones out there).

It's more about the concepts it adopts rather than its execution. In my personal opinion, Sketch is Really Bad Software, with some many UI problems and discrepancies with features tackled on nonsensically that it baffles me it's not considered beta.

It's popular because everybody uses it, and everybody uses it because it's popular, but once a more solid solution exists, I think they're going to be in a pretty bad position.

Adobe has its own woes and has produced plenty of Really Bad Software, but they've been at it for so long that if they're really focused and put their brightest to the task, there's no stopping them.
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The Pentagon bailed because the bigdog project just wasn't practical[1]. The large version was too noisy for use on the battlefield, and the small version was too weak to do useful work.

It seems like Google are bailing on BD for much the same reason: Their tech works, but it doesn't actually solve any practical problem that Google have, and isn't close to producing any independent, sellable product.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35201183
What are outcomes like for the people that did move away and retrain? A key point of the "redundant workers will find new work" hypothesis is that they make rational decisions to find & take advantage of opportunities elsewhere. These rational decisions can often be emotionally wrenching - like giving up your home, your identity, and your social support network - but I'm curious what happens to the folks who are willing to make those decisions.
Your will be located and FBI will break into your house.

Seriously, the algorithm uses 1 as a default width.
You might be able to replace Jenkins :-). Runnable builds every branch as soon as it's updated with a push, and then deploys it. This allows you to spin off branches for your app and use/test them in a matter of seconds. Builds are exportable as Docker images which are stored in an authenticated registry.

Would love to hear what your use-case is and whether it's a good for or not! Send me an email jorge@runnable.com
Not just brand image, but actual customer decisions in the market. Look at how the self-driving car has evolved to look more friendly, for no technical reason, so the public doesn't resist it.

It's arrogant to push something forward in the face of widespread opposition, instead of finding an agreeable way forward.
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Probably a contract that was "on the books" in FY 2013 but later canceled before payment in FY 2014. I assume there is a considerable time lag in payment when dealing with the US govt.
Uh .. that was his job. If he didn't do that he would have no job function in the company. If he couldn't change the faith of the company that employed him, then he was a bad employee at that particular job level.

That's what SVP/ director level / C-level people do for a living. They don't barely do any coding or any technical work - they create the vision and hire the people (or buy other companies) to make it real.
I definitely don't see any justification for the actions she ultimately took in this situation.

I'm just saying that it appears there may have been multiple points of failure, in this fiasco.
> It is also worth noting that earth in the show built their own DHD which presumably would have different computer limitations than the ancient built DHD

The gate itself has control crystals as you can dial out without a DHD if you just give it power and some elbow grease. The 38 minute cutoff is probably in that code.

They must have run out of code space in the gate and had to offload some of the code to the DHD. :D The correlative update routine for the coordinate system is in the DHD for example so the earth gate could originally only dial Abydos until they added that to their homebrew DHD.
Hmm; I don't see that in the current spec [1], and that link is pretty old. I should test it.

https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_wor...
Large group death meaning that the opponent invades before you have created eyes among your large-looking territory?
Or you could automate yourself out of a job and get a new job.

There's nothing that says that jobs are sacred. Indeed, most folks born since 1980 believe that they'll have to switch jobs every few years to a.) stay relevant and b.) get paid what they're worth.
She understand the law and she's taken a strong stance on the legal case. I'm sure the DoJ understands the law, as well, and it were actually obvious and clear, the DoJ would have advised the FBI that they don't have a case.

From the policy perspective, I think it's important to think about single user disk encryption in the context of its sibling question: end-to-end encryption (e2ee). They are separate legal questions, of course, but not wholly unrelated in terms of the bigger picture.
That's what you're most often paying for now, but that's not a fundamental property of SaaS. It's a byproduct of the fact that most are built on open source products. If proprietary software companies like Oracle and Microsoft went purely SaaS for their business models (thinking of DB software here), you'd be paying just to get access to the software, in addition to any ops overhead benefits you also gained.
I never see this mentioned, but to me the most important feature of Docker based CaaS (or PaaS) is that they are no longer purely for hosting custom software. The focus of Heroku style PaaS systems has been the flow of code to running software, but what about applications I have no code for?

I want to run GitLab, Mattermost, an API gateway, etc. With Docker based CaaS/PaaS, this is easy since apps can be easily packaged as containers that are treated the same as your own custom apps. This is only my opinion, but I think we are getting to the point where all server software can be run on something like Kubernetes and traditional virtualization becomes even more of a commodity.

Disclaimer, I work for Red Hat! We have both a CaaS (RHEL Atomic Enterprise Platform ie Kubernetes) and a PaaS built on top of it (OpenShift v3). Containers taking over the entire data center is my own opinion, but it would be great!
There's Orgzly. I only just downloaded it today though.
One minor thing that should hopefully be considered... a %b/%B conversion for printf et al.

It's useful to print binary representations of things (debugging, conversion, etc...). A number of libc implementations support it as an extension. Forcing people to re-implement it outside of printf is a bit obnoxious considering how simple it is, and that there are already hexadecimal and octal conversions.
I think it's a stronger phenomenon in cutting edge areas, as there's less group-think to fall back on or use as a crutch.

Everyone knew what to do with a typewriter, even if the visionary leader left. If the person who was saying that microcomputers were going to be the next big thing quit? Nobody else has that idea in their heads.
In the past, gender discrepancy was justified just as glibly as ageism is now. People said almost exactly the same nonsense then: women just got married, they moved to other fields, this particular poll is biased (never mind they all show the same trend), they quit to raise children. In the ageism case, someone even ludicrously suggested retirement before 40 accounts for a significant percentage

Ageism is indeed a very serious problem and the same personality types that didn't want to fix bias problems in the past are resisting addressing the age problem with equal vigor today.
Would you mind releasing the source (SVG? Illustaror?) of that very depressing chart under an freedom respecting licence (CC-BY? CC-BY-SA?) and hosting it on something like Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab/Codeplex?
I would like to contribute by updating it.
Also, I would like to link to it on Wikipedia.
Oh, I agree. There's no defense for her going for a backchannel device in response.

Just that arguably, the NSA has a legal obligation to at least attempt to properly coordinate with the Executive Branch when it comes to perfectly reasonable-seeming requests (as this request appears to have been, from the outset).

Which they apparently did not do in this case, for some reason. So the legal aspects of that matter should be looked into, also.
They don't need to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_2011
Thank you so much for this wonderful stuff!
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@DEVOPS_BORAT has Kazakhstan[1] listed as the location in their profile, so no. :)

[1] https://twitter.com/devops_borat
> only past or foreseeable buyers are the US gov't

They demoed warehousing robots that could automate some lifting, transporting, shelving tasks. There was definitely commercial potential there.
Very happy to see Scala both in the "Loved" and also in the "top salaries in US", and same goes for Apache Spark. I made a bet on Scala more than 5 years ago and it finally starts to pay off... although the Scala job pool is only a fraction of the JS one.
I love Mozilla's dedication to the open Internet and their innovative, strategic thinking about it. This seems like a way to nudge developers off of native apps and onto open technologies.

However, must the platform be a browser? Why not an open app technology? (Based on Servo?) Perhaps that is too much of a leap to influence the marketplace any time soon.
My trouble with tsumego:

I can sit down and maybe solve a tsumego problem, OK. Sometimes I guess a bit (MCTS!) instead of working out the whole tree, developing that intuition.

But tsumego are labelled with difficulty and that they are winnable.

But when I play a game, how do I know how if a certain local position is winnable, and worth spending the minute(s) to find how to win it?
That doesn't actually seem like a problem though. What's wrong with united.air.us and lloyds.bank.uk?

Which actually makes the squatting problem much better because to squat on "foo" you need foo.air.us, foo.bank.us, foo.cars.us, foo.air.uk, foo.bank.uk, foo.cars.uk, foo.air.ca, foo.bank.ca...
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I actually regretted not mentioning the organizational advantage. Basically, scaling and organizational split are really the major two business drivers for splitting an application up!
Habitus is an open source Docker build flow tool
Interesting. I haven't worked a lot with Nodejs (Haven't really gotten to it), but have with the rest of the stack. I'm into messaging and networking. Maybe drop me a line?
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