skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The explosion in the service industry of the past 30 years is not because technology and globalization created new jobs...

What are lathe operators doing these days? Some of them oversee automated factories - the rest flip burgers.
Keychords are a bit of a pain in the ass if you type quickly and want to have mnemonic shortcuts.
Since the sculptors in those days were mostly men, a better question might be why the female statues have such small breasts :)
Paysa[1] has a time series of companies ranked by talent density[2]. This shows how the quality of talent has changed in companies over time.

[1] https://www.paysa.com [2] https://www.paysa.com/company-rank
Most users probably aren't worried about targeted attacks from adversaries who've compromised SS7, either. But the ones that are have an easy option.
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But that confrontation comprises a good bulk of what is actually called trolling.

There is the aspect that the confrontation is not always in good faith. The troll knows that those people don't like being confronted, and knows that it is not productive to do so. It's done only for the amusement: because those people don't like it.
I for one intend to wait and see how these Universal Basic Income experiments play out. Maybe the decrease in overhead for over 9000 social programs will combine with the increased tax revenue generated by additional low income persons entering the workforce (now that doing so works to their financial advantage) and produce enough revenue to offset the cost of the programs. Maybe not.
We already see hints of previously unfathomable jobs.

OK, so in Wall-E, no one did squat because the ship was self-contained and fully automated. But let's ponder the world that exists somewhere between today and Wall-E.

Entertainment is a profession. It's "kind of a rare one" right now, but it's becoming more and more of one. Whether you're "YouTube famous" or "that kid on Vine" or you've got a Twitch channel that makes you money, people pay just to watch other people be entertained or do something "useless" but somehow interesting.

Obviously, the bigger question in that article was "how money will be distributed and exchanged." Can a huge plurality of people be "Wall-E entertained" sustainably, while some do "critical" jobs (if there are any critical jobs that are still done by humans - hardware/network maintenance, software programming, will the vision of the future be determined by humans or AI?)
The houndstooth pattern is a form of check.

Wikipedia entry for Houndstooth pattern:

"Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound's tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog's tooth, or pied-de-poule, is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white, although other colours are used."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth

Wikipedia entry for Check - Use in fabrics:

"Check-patterned fabrics display bands in two or more colours in woven cloth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_%28pattern%29

Wikipedia, definition of keffiyeh:

"Its distinctive standard woven checkered pattern may have originated in an ancient Mesopotamian representation of either fishing nets or ears of grain,[2] but the true origin of the pattern remains unknown."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh
Agree re: Zookeeper. It looks like DistributedLog uses BookKeeper, which I'm guessing is where the Zookeeper usage comes from.

In terms of simplifying the deployment, they could have went embedded with Atomix[1] instead. Perhaps next time.

[1]: http://atomix.io/
For an image parser all you really need is to use a language without buffer overflows.
Java has garbage collection and is about two times slower than C
Does DL has a limit on the number of partitions like Kafka?
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"I put "poverty" in scare quotes because in India this would be considered "rich""

Yeah, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Yes, in India, that might be considered "rich". But he's not talking about India. He's talking about the US. And in the US, that amount of money would make you desperately poor. Further, if you could make that amount of money either doing hard, laborious work, or not doing anything, any rational person would do nothing, as it doesn't have the costs that labor have on the body.

If you really wanted to see that the person took the job as a maid, then what should happen is that they would get the safety net money as well. That way, there's an incentive to take the maid job. (One could also just raise the wages of the maid job, but nobody wants to do that).
Looking forward to an API :)
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I'm not sure I find it useful to provide a descriptive framework about this issue without also discussing a normative interpretation. In fact, I think I personally have a somewhat extreme view that we have to do a better job of even defining what "work" means, and that such a definition should not be articulated in purely economic terms, but that aspects of human mental health, goal satisfaction, Self Determination Theory, and baseline morally just working conditions should be mandatory prerequisites to any notion of "work" -- that economic analyses of the side effects of different work-related policies are literally only meaningful if they take place after accounting for these other baseline factors.
With all the critiques in the comments so far, it is worth noting that this article simply says they won a contest for being promising inventors, not that the invention doesn't have flaws.
They move their investors' money around, thus providing a service to their investors, in exchange for money. I'm not sure I see the difference.
If you want to kill advertising only go to sites without ads you know the ones you pay for. Where advertising helps best is new companies. It's hard to get referrals and word of mouth when your customer base is zero.
What is this offering that I can't get from goog analytics or Adwords, for free?
No more depressing than learning how to do just about anything, knowing that you are never going to be world class at it.
Have you resolved the trademark dispute[1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570516
Could we close and merge the other submissions on this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thiel&sort=byDate&prefix&page=...

Note: this is one of the few that doesn't have "Thiel" in the title.
> What's wrong with the QR code? That QR code is a hash of the public key

I have no way to verify that.

If WhatsApp is trustworthy and secure, then the QR code might be a hash of the public key, but to be completely frank, it could be anything.

* I don't have the source code.

* Nobody I know has the source code

* Nobody I know has bothered to jailbreak their device and/or decompile the binary. I just got an update recently, and my friends are busy.

If I had access to my own public and private key, I (or someone I know) could conceivably verify that I'm using it by decrypting my messages using another device (e.g. using wireshark).

I appreciate that you might have the source code, or know someone with the source code, or might have reverse engineered the most recent update and have more confidence than I do, but you cannot transmit that confidence to me by simply insisting that it is the hash of the public key.
Great serendipitous story.
Can you explicitly write out the sequence of events? Something like this, but obviously not so snarky:

1. Send a limit order for 1000@$20 to my brokerage. <- This part I understand.

2. "Lean on your bid?" <- Not a valid message in FIX.

3. Do flips. <- Acrobats do this, not brokerages.

4. Make a profit
Setting up a private email server in your bathroom closet to conduct 100% of all your government and foundation business, and using an AOL account from time to time is definitely not the same thing.
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Did you watch the corresponding video
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Give it another year and the new batch of hotshot developers will reinvent static typing and perhaps one or two other features from the 1970s, but it'll have some cool name and only implement 50% of the functionality.
It looks to me like your article is really arguing for central control of the code, rather than central control of the serving infrastructure. Having everyone running the same code means changes can be made quickly because only one implementation needs to change. Centralized serving infrastructure makes central control of the code easy.

But if you look at mobile, we have central control of the code there without central control of the infrastructure: everyone has their own phone, yet runs the same apps that stay up-to-date via app stores.

Sandstorm is basically taking that model to servers: within 24 hours of an app update, everyone gets a notification and can click one button to update their copy, so everyone tends to stay up-to-date.

(Disclosure: I'm the lead developer of Sandstorm.)
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They can only have the perspective that was possible from the program that created them -- ultimately they're constrained by the original programmer (artist). That set of possibilities might be very large, but it's still limited.

Because art is expression, and expression is fundamental to humanity, machines won't be able to push art in the same way that humans can.
The author isn't struggling to fathom new job types, he's merely working under the assumption that there's a point where machines will literally do every job better. He's also arguing that automation will outpace the majority of people training to get new jobs.

Personally speaking, the future is far too nebulous for me to have a lot of conviction on what's going to happen, so I'm going to accept or discount anything yet.
Except that's not at all what the person you're responding to said. And it's quite possible that there are multiple causes for job elimination. Automation eliminating classes of jobs being one, and menial jobs simply not paying enough to be worth it.

You're not really talking about facts. You're quoting numbers, but not seeking to actually understand the numbers at all. This is illustrated greatly by your crack that poverty wages in the US would make someone "rich" in India. You're completely ignoring any and all context around that number.
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This is the correct link I think:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler/briefingmaterials160...
Americans like safety more than they like free markets. You might feel otherwise, but US citizens have made their collective decision.
I'll add my thoughts here, since I think a number of people will be disappointed in this post.

There are a number of competing goals when developing software that "the whole world can/will use". And it seems obvious to me that getting the whole world to use a secure, encrypted messenger like Signal (now, Whatsapp) is a noble goal. The obvious competing goal is federation, and the fact that we've failed at improving federated services (e-mail being the best/most important example) is a problem.

Ultimately, Moxie's arguments here hold a lot of sway for me. I think it sucks that constantly-improving services are impossible to address in a federated way, and he's not really offering a solution to that. But instead he presents arguments I hadn't thought about much, which is that perhaps non-federated services can be dramatically better than federated services in the short-term. And in the long term, perhaps we'll move back to federated services; right now, the cost of changing services/ecosystems is very low. So we don't need to be as 'doom-and-gloom' about the fact that Signal does not achieve all the competing goals, because it achieves a number of extremely important goals right now, and we can work on the other goals in the future.
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Google, take your browser team of the loony pills for FIVE SECONDS! Chrome isn't the only browser in the world. Having your website crash and burn one one of the most popular browsers out there that isn't yours is beyond unacceptable. Especially if you push web standards and make recommendations to other developers and sites to make their sites support all browsers.
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I didn't mean to imply these people aren't doing anything wrong. I just wish governments were in the spotlight just as much. Thanks all for your replies.
I assume you are talking about the American service industry and not the Chinese one. In my view, the massive growth in the chinese manufacturing industry is also not a result of technology either, but rather a result of shipping american manufacturing jobs oversees.

Which illustrates my point that people lose jobs because of decisions made by other people.
This would be a whole lot more interesting if several of the repos weren't empty.
Or each person (moral, physical or AI person) will be able to have that much more leverage in their entrepreneurship.

The industrial revolution eliminated 60% of the jobs and gave birth to communism/socialism/a reaction to the wear of workers by a powerful people.

Subsequent revolutions also gave much more leverage to the "guy in his garage in the Silicon Valley". My wishful thinking hopes that AI will enable us to take up much bigger projects, each of us. Writing a symphony when you're alone? Creating a band, 2 albums, with all the matching marketingware and tv ads, in just 2 weeks? Developing a custom processor as a startup of 3ppl? Creating a new model of car every week? My gut says we'll invent enough fashions and arts to keep us busy.

But there sure will be a lot of poverty and reactive movements. A bloodshed, at least as much as today.
Right. I'm just sharing my experience at this point, though. Can't get caught if I'm not doing anything to get caught. And again, I went through the proper, ethical channels to get this raised.
It's odd how people are in their perspectives on static vs dynamic. I can't for the life of me understand how people tolerate static typing on the web. Every time I've tried it the experience has been so tedious.

I just figure, everything is coming in as a string no matter what. It's going back out as a string. The only place it needs to be anything other than a string is something interesting is being done with it and since dynamic typing lets you just worry about it in those cases, it removes a lot of unnecessary code.

On the flip side, outside of web work i can't imagine the reverse.
I find it hard to believe anybody could actually fall for this.
So really you're saying it reduces to the intent of the interrogator?

If you interrogate someone for their irrational beliefs because you are genuinely curious if they are in fact as irrational as they appear, or you're missing something important, this is not trolling, but if you're well aware that they are definitely irrational, and you're familiar with all of the reasons that people come to believe these kinds of things, then this is?
I'm looking forward to the day AIs post intelligent comments on Hacker News. Perhaps there will be a new AskAI section.
I enjoyed it (and I read Reddit as well as HN).
No we are not. The day we start voting videos of soflo antonio we will become.

This is an insanely creative video, i have not something like this in many years so i thought the creative minds at hn would like it. Maybe it will inspire someone to create something different, who knows?
No users, no walled garden. More users, more walled garden. Is this just the natural state of systems that require/acquire network effects?
False. Knowingly storing classified information on non-secure channels is illegal.
Call me whatever you like, just don't make me use Haskell. The language makes my hair stand on end; it feels math-y and determinist, like the triumph of H.G. Wells and B.F. Skinner. I want nothing to do with it, and I fear the consequences if it spreads.
So, I am female. When working at a Fortune 500 company, I once emailed a colleague and copied our two bosses. I advised him to never speak that way to me again.

It went to HR. I got interviewed. I assume he got interviewed. He was not fired. He never spoke that way to me again. I eventually reestablished trust with this man and we got on well. I suspect he got sensitivity training. I was not told what went down. It was all handled very discreetly.

Please do get HR involved. Please do not listen to the people here who are advising you to nuke the man from orbit, it's the only way. Doing that will only deepen the problem. Men and women need to learn to interact at work. Promoting fear and loathing will not further that larger goal.

You get his side. You do some training. If it continues to be a problem, sure, fire him. But please do not use final solution/terrorist tactics. This only hurts women in the long run. Men need to learn better manners. Cutting their nuts off for a faux pas doesn't teach them that. It promotes a hostile environment between the genders. It doesn't create a more civil environment.
Yes, there will be new types of jobs, but the real question is: should there be?

Everyone seems to look at technology-caused unemployment as a doomsday scenario, but really, why should humans bother working when their basic needs can be taken care of? Isn't it a worse world when people either do meaningless work or else participate in meaningless status games for employment?
That's pretty much the AI best case scenario portrayed in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks:

Investing all power in his individualistic, sometime eccentric, but always benign, A.I. Minds, Banks knew what he was doing; this is the only way a liberal anarchy could be achieved, by taking what is best in humans and placing it beyond corruption, which means out of human control. The danger involved in this imaginative step, though, is clear; one of the problems with the Culture novels as novels is that the central characters, the Minds, are too powerful and, to put it bluntly, too good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

Edit:

I also liked the reply when Banks was asked about the great Minds of the Culture "... Is this what gods would actually be like?" to which we replied "If we're lucky".
It's probably fair to say the DVCS accelerated the growth of the entire software industry.

Was BitKeeper the first version control system to "think distributed" ?
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That actually is pretty neat
How to start developing a web application?
While starting, developing a new web application how should I start. Should I focus on developing a skeleton of UI first or should I focus on developing appropriate data model or should I focus on choosing appropriate technology for server and client side like that.. Kindly advise me.
You can get the SS7 link for a few hundred bucks a month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0I5tl0YLY

Its an hour, but I highly suggest the talk.
Whatever offer the company claiming the trademark is willing to make, or zero.
When people perform attacks like this, how are they getting access to the SS7 network? Would they not need use of a (presumably expensive) trunk?
What should I name my company? Old school advice about A-names is dead?
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How is the current state just recursive application of the rules, if the rules integrate randomness? It would mean saving every call to rand(), as well as every piece of user input...
As someone who deals with sensor data, the tricky part is really not the write-rate, but rather dealing with messy data. There's a lot of parallelism in sensor network streams, and for many domains you never look at the sensors from one device against the sensors of another device, so you can put them in entirely different databases and it doesn't matter. (It's not true in every case, of course, but if you're doing time series/streaming, ask yourself if it's true for you before picking a system)

The real pain is handling data that arrives out of order or otherwise very late, or handling data that never arrives at all, or handling data that's clearly wrong. Worse, you may have streams that are defined/calculated from other streams for some algebra on series, e.g. series C is series A plus series B - so handling new data on A means you need to recalculate/update the view for C.

Oh, and you'd like this all to be mostly declarative so you have some way to migrate between systems if you need to switch for whatever reason.

Apache Beam/Google Dataflow gets a lot of this stuff right: it's not quite as declarative as I'd like but it gets the windowing flexibility right and handles restatements at a data model level.
If you don't like my informal description, look at the main graph in this article:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...

Branco Milanovic's numbers support the exact claim I made - 95'th percentile in India is approximately the bottom 5'th percentile in the US.

THOSE NUMBERS ARE ADJUSTED FOR PURCHASING POWER. (I feel the need to heavily emphasize this since whenever I post that graph, people ignore this fact.)
'Swarm Intelligence' wins $11,000 predicting the Kentucky Derby
Some relevant background information on this issue:

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37
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"When 60% of the workforce is unemployable ..." this is why I think that what we are currently seeing in the Trump phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg of this problem from the perspective of the US political system. I don't know what can reasonably be done to fix this, but I that I think will get worse before it gets better.
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It looks very cool but it's terribly difficult to read.
Ideology is not post-hoc but tied in with the process that creates it. Look at stat ups. The culture of a start up is its ideology and gives direction to the company which reciprocates by cementing that culture as a definite if it causes that startup to be successful.

Ideology and social order go hand in hand, and even more so in Political situations and you have to be very oblivious to say that Islam is not an political religious ideology for most of the Middle East.
IIRC, we started working on Distributed Log at least a year before that post.
Are you basing your argument on the existing law concerning classified information, or what you think should happen?

The problem with your view is that it is not based on what the law actually is.

Clinton was required to report the unauthorized disclosure of classified info. But she didn't.

By your argument, if someone takes a photocopy of a document but puts a blank piece of paper over whatever mark indicates it as "top secret", whoever they then hand that photocopy to is excluded from any liability. That is not how it actually works, however.

BTW if the info came from NSA, they are the agency that determines its classification. Not Clinton.
So tell me, where does one get the money to pay for such an education? Where does one get the money to move to places with jobs? Further, where does one get the time to study if they're working two jobs? How does one afford the computer equipment and the internet connection? If you say "use a library", how does one ensure that their two jobs don't take all of the time that the library is open? What if one has children?

You can drone on and on about "personal responsibility" all you want if it makes you feel better, but at the end of the day, that isn't going to do jack shit. We need actual answers to these issues, not some haughty, Captain Hindsight, "well, you should have..." crap designed only to make yourself feel better.

It all comes down to, do you actually care about fixing these problems, or not? If you drone on about "personal responsibility", then it's clear you're only interested in assigning blame, and not interested in actually trying to fix things. Go feel superior somewhere else, and get out of the way of people actually trying to fix things.