skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote "What if there's no such a thing as <something we have studied and understood in detail for decades> and we've been observing interactions with <something we hypothesise might exist but we know next to nothing about> all along?"

Why did you jump to the conclusion that the well understood thing should be replaced by the new and unknown thing?
Already happens: Capitalism destroys human labor force and goes to the next phase http://bit.ly/1JPiUzp
Show HN: TLS cert expiration dashboard
Break the other person's arm or nose?
A lot depends on the definition of "my country" are you talking the exporter or importer? You seem to be implying the exporter country. In that case GDP will drop.

Competition means the price you charge the importer has to drop by "something" otherwise your competitors (assuming you haven't used the .gov to outlaw competition) will undercut you. Unless you use .gov or "something" to prevent competitors from installing the same, or even newer better robots.

Surely as per efficient market hypothesis the employees working there were already at their best possible job over a long term average over a large group of people, like an entire factory. So an external force eliminating those jobs mean in an efficient market they'll by definition be working less well matched to their abilities jobs. This ripples thru the economy see anecdotes about aerospace engineers driving taxi and so on. Whoops taxi driving jobs are going away too. So society as a whole will be less productive, have less revenue, have an inferior match of their abilities to their jobs. This will further depress the GDP.

Traditional income inequality models indicate the marginal use of a dollar / yuan is much lower for small higher income brackets. Not just the wealthy CEO but say, engineers. So the impact on the greater economy of taking away 1000 line jobs is much higher than taking away 1000 line jobs equivalent out of the CEO's bonus. This is not seen as overly controversial, obviously the velocity of any given yuan is much faster for a poor dude than a rich dude.

Finally there's the multiplier effect where productive jobs that generated 1 yuan or whatever also generated as a side effect service transactions of 1.5 or 3 or 10 yuan per productively generated yuan. Obviously the real estate agent won't be selling homes to the now unemployed people which has downstream effects like the commissioned mortgage broker and commissioned bank reps all the way down to title registration won't get those service dollars, er, yuans.

There seems to be no reason to expect the GDP to increase or stay the same. There is a tragedy of the commons aspect where every individual benefits individually, but society suffers. Its much like dumping industrial waste into parks, for example.
At the same time this destroys the lives of line workers it helps the lives of the robotic technicians, designers, producers, and part manufacturers
I created a dashboard to view some basic info about the TLS certificates that I manage for various websites, including days to expiration, Issuer, Issuer Common Name, and certificate common name. It's also useful for enterprise infrastructure if you have to manage lots of web server certificates as part of a security or ops team.

I use a node module to scrape the peer certificate info, and then dump it into a file that a web page picks up. It's not real-time, out of concern for too many people hitting or reloading the page and kicking off too many connection attempts at once.

An example is here: https://craine.gitlab.io/tls-dashboard/
"But those huge powers you gave yourself, they still stay there, making all sorts of actions technically illegal. It's the state which decides when it wants to enforce them."

It's not only to the state that the power accrues. Any individual copper can choose to ignore "guidance" if they don't like the look of someone.
You could argue that games put a lot of people out of work. After all people playing games might not be interested in other forms of entertainment, thus killing these other industries. Also, people spending a lot of time playing games might not want to go out to meet with other people, which in turns kills the restaurant industry,the oil industry (less miles driven), car industry (less accidents) etc.
Did anyone take the bet?

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EDIT: OK, found out that "Boston-based venture capitalist Michael de la Maza" took him up on it.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/30/technology/sam-altman-tech-s...
This blog post was one of the most inspirational pieces that led us to founding Pachyderm (pachyderm.io). We offer git-like semantics for data, including branches, and in a distributed system so it scales to petabytes.
The way worldwide logistics and shipping is constructed makes this more more or less impossible.

The supply chains are based around china, india being the primary manufactoring.
Let's say you are competing in a market though. Your competitors will implement the same technology, and cut the price themselves to beat you.
To be honest, it doesn't bother me enough to run any sort of rigorous trial. Going by some trusted reviewers, GLONASS sucks an extra 20% during activities. I'm never so far away from being able to charge it that such a small difference bothers me.
The entirety of technology/engineering/materials advances over the last thousands years has had the net effect of making certain jobs obsolete or least needed in much smaller numbers. Buggy whip makers being the oft-cited example, but dyers, seamstresses, thatchers, brick makers, carpenters, etc... Automation, efficiency improvements, and material/product longevity increases all dramatically change the job landscape. And yet we're still employing the majority of an ever-expanding population. Things seem to simply shift around....
This is absurd . If they were secretly recording you they wouldn't obviously throw it in your face immediately.
I would be interested in testing it out. I am close to New York City would be interesting in any meetups also.
I am working on a two passenger hybrid electric aircraft we decided for parallel operation.
I thought first world countries still manufacture lots of stuff, just that we're really efficient at it so it doesn't employ many people?

e.g. There is a statistic that peak manufacturing output for the UK was actually fairly recently:

"A 2009 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, citing data from the UK Office for National Statistics, stated that manufacturing output (gross value added at 2007 prices) has increased in 35 of the 50 years between 1958 and 2007, and output in 2007 was at record levels, approximately double that in 1958"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_Ki...
The theory is that no one good would take the job because the likelihood of failure was so high without a parachute. This type of ousting will certainly hurt Mayer's future CEO options, or so the theory goes.
I may be thinking of this wrong, but at a macro level, as we've seen in advanced countries, the labor pool can shift towards different types of jobs. The money is still out there. We have more high-end wedding photographers, expensive video games for people to buy, luxury vacations to spend money on.

When automation occurs, the wages previously paid to the workers doesn't just evaporate into thin air, but it moves around into other areas.

I'm sure there are lots of studies out there that might show something different in reality, but the world is richer as a whole than it's ever been. It may fluctuate in allocation, but it's still richer overall. Now I suppose overall richness and unemployment are two different things, but the poverty level is lower than ever, which is a good sign. I suppose the challenge is for poor/middle class learning how to better separate the wealthy from their wealth at a faster rate, in a productive way?
>Imagine what you could do with eye tracking within an IDE.

You provided really good cases for the rest, but for this I can't quite picture a need (other than maybe scrolling, which is arguably faster using vim movements already). Do you have any ideas?
People make choices every day about how to spend their money, entertainment is no different. People spend time and money gaming now may have spent it bowling, going to movies, bars, baseball games, etc. in the past. En masse, those shifts put people out of work.

The problem happens when it happens so quickly that we can't re-allocate workforce or if it happens at such a scale that we can't find use for masses of low-eductation/low-skill workers.
FWIW, I found the books dull as dirt. However, I really enjoyed the BBC TV mini-series, so maybe choice of media matters in this case.
This would be a much more useful comment if you explained why.
First to hear about Aiven and you guys released pg hoard. Right? Interesting offerings. Are you connected to upcloud? (Both are based in Helsinki from what I could gather)
> Quote retweets do what you'd expect

I hope you meant the proverbial "you". Personally, I can't find a reason to expect any particular behavior in that case. I've never been able to figure twitter out.
From Startup to Scaleup: What We’re Changing as We Make the Transition
For my side project, I manage my own VPS servers. I had to do all the install and security for them.
What part of "they have intense hatred for anyone with a different opinion, even the very people who developed bitcoin" didn't you understand? What kind of person lambasts another for giving primary sourced, direct quotes to counter a misconception?

BTW, this too is a misconception: "and what we learned from that was that the nodes in datacenters are the only ones which can't be trivially knocked off the internet"

Right, because you didn't learn to run Tor hidden service nodes. You also didn't learn to proxy your connection over SSH. No, that would make too much sense. What you learned was that you had to physically relocate your node to a datacenter. Golf clap.

> If you want resiliance, get nodes in as many datacenters of different sovereign jurisdictions as possible. The nodes running on home connections are an illusion.

Welcome to 2013?

> Your suggestions don't stop the address published to the p2p network from being flooded.

bitcoind -?

-externalip=<ip>
Specify your own public address
-onion=<ip:port>
Use separate SOCKS5 proxy to reach peers via Tor hidden services
(default: -proxy)
-onlynet=<net>
Only connect to nodes in network <net> (ipv4, ipv6 or onion)
Flight takes a lot of energy. Gliding let's you fly for longer at the cost of speed or altitude. You can also trade altitude for speed, but there is little waste in a normal descent.
On iOS you can simply not grant it contacts, microphone, or location access.
depends on what those people who previously made your gadgets start doing. Provided they end up doing productive work elsewhere, you haven't reduced your country's GDP
If enough people lose their jobs they will vote for a government that solves this problem.

Hopefully many countries will get an unconditional basic income and only a few become new Nazi Germany :\
I have no idea, but if you are prosumer and you use your Phantom for work I don't think this one will be for you.
The ecosystem that DJI ahs built is going to take quite a bit of time to match for the prosumer market.

I never bought into DJI I disliked the fact that they tried to mask the fact that they were Chinese at first and at those prices i rather had to have something semi-custom built and finish it my self.

What DJI did was great they produced pretty much the first (commercially successful) out of the box can be used by anyone (children to professional photographers) drone with a good ecosystem - basically the "iPhone of drones", but they always priced it too high for what it was (the prices oddly enough have been dropping for the past few weeks and a full DJI P3 4K drone kit with extra blades, 3-axis gimble and the works can be had under 600GBP in the UK, I don't know if it's just because the summer is coming or DJI knew about this) especially considering the amount of accessories you usually had to buy ontop of the base kit to make any use of the damn thing.

Considering we also don't know how this drone performs yet and that they'll be crowdfunding it initially I don't think you should wait if you really need to upgrade (also why upgrade the P3? It's still one of the best drones around) do it, I'm not sure if I would ever get the Xiaomi drone either but it's good to see that big Chinese companies are getting into the market because there is nothing wrong with Chinese companies but there's also no reason for what so ever to price serially produced drones that can cost <100$ in BOM at a 1000$ or higher...
(Adam from Realm) we don't offer support for geospatial data yet. An issue to track this was created for Realm Cocoa: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/issues/2569

We don't have a similar issue open for Realm Java, so it would be great if you could create one and detail your needs so we can work to support it.
They have those training programs in America. The problem is training or education never created a job. You can stamp all the degrees and certifications you want, but if there's no jobs, its fundamentally not going to help.

If you have 11 pounds of flour to put in a 10 pound bag, no matter what you do with applying nice looking labels, its not gonna fit.
Twitter open-sources their stream processing library, Heron
In the demo, I had to click on the screen a couple of times to get the dot to start moving around. Then, it seemed to want to follow my mouse quite a bit as I moved and clicked.

I was able to greatly move the red dot when I say closer to the webcam, really opened my eyes, and moved left to right, but the action was flipped for me — looking left moved the dot right, and vice versa. (I'm using an Apple Cinema Display… I've had issues before where it automatically flips the screen around in some cases.)

Although not very accurate, it's certainly an interesting experiment.
He'll likely be right on all 3 but only because 1 company in each will disproportionately skew. His bet is overly broad.

Palantir and SpaceX are very promising companies, it's hard to say if their true value will be realized by 2020.

Stripe alone is worth $10-15B if you ask me.

Where he might stumble is the 3rd, however finding $3B of worth in what must be 30+ companies shouldn't be hard, depends how badly the global economy slows in the next 4 years.

I'm not sure this really does much to disprove the insular and bubbly nature of technology investment, however.
Focus, there are 50 people that want you to do something. I have to hunker down, come in early and stay late when people are not around to increase productivity.

I have a cool idea to track all this, but no time to implement it.
That can change. The supply chain wasn't always based around Chinese and Indian manufacturing.
Xen exploitation part 1: XSA-105, from nobody to root
It's too late. Ether was already hijacked to become a trading instrument.
Who lost a job because of an Xbox game? I think you could argue that software like Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office are net positive on job growth. Software can empower people to do entirely new kinds of jobs.
I didn't expect to get downvoted so much. I never would have thought of Hacker News as the place to learn about a former celebrity, a sex tape, and the fact that the celebrity's friend helped pay for a lawsuit against an Internet-only tabloid (OMG!).
Yes, the equivalent to a password in the physical world is a key. Or something like the tagged jewellery they were suggesting before:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/512051/google-wants-to-re...

I agree this seems like massive overkill. Biometric data is what you'd associate with a passport, or id card, or perhaps require for access to a bank account. That kind of data being used to log-in to a website is a big step.
Fix the H-1B Visa Program
Oh, great to know, thanks!
> When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither.

iCloud definitely does occasional sharing. Keeping your archive safe is definitely questionable though.

> iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that.

I can do that with iCloud Photos. I select a bunch of photos I want to share, I select an existing (or create a new) iCloud shared photo library, and then I enable a web link for them and share that. Works on fruits, robots, glass panes and penguins.
In America, we overpay for middle-of-the-road service. It sucks but we don't really have a choice with the agglomeration of broadband provider in the last couple of years.
Lame. It was just someone who wanted to work with Sam. Not someone who actually believed we are in a bubble, and was "Putting his money where his mouth was"
Stories like this make me think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Charlie's father was a factory worker who struggled to make ends meet, the irony being that his job was to screw toothpaste caps on toothpaste tubes.

After the events of the book, Charlie's father went back to the factory but as an engineer to work on the machines that do his old job. Not everyone at the factory could have received that kind of promotion. I wonder what happened to them?
Winter 15 batch was 100+ companies.
The Nickelback Persistence Conjecture
I think your and my post basically say the same thing, yours is just more detailed.
I'm a Freelancer and run my own business. I do most of my server administration.
Automate deployments after successful build from any CI tool (Jenkins,Travis,..)
Before I did IT, I used to work in that industry. Most of the high labor stuff has moved cheaper, vietnam, sri lanka, cambodia. Things like embellishments, excess decorations, that all left china. However if you are doing run of the mill stuff, china is still great to work in. The wash plants were next to the mills which were down the street from where I sourced packaging. It may have changed in the last 8-10 years, but pretty much if I needed anything done it was only 15 minutes away from whatever fty I was in at the time.
I'm not sure that is less friction. Chrome already can and does store my contact and payment details, and the alternative is downloading and running some part of a custom app that integrates with Google pay?

Somewhere I have to choose what card I want and what address to send the item to, both of those are already handled pretty well in chrome. The problems come with poorly made forms on sites, but I dont think comparing bad sites to good apps is fair.

I'm not trying to be contrary here, I've just not seen a decent reason for these yet. Really they're like websites but with a different API that's not cross platform. I guess a good integration has to be one that can't be done with a website, a user also doesn't need regularly and requires no special permissions.
> "Exactly. Self directed education is as much about ignoring information you don't need as it is about absorbing information."

Not everything that you're interested in will end up covering the most important new developments of the day. For example, if you spend most of your self-directed learning focused on learning about physics, you may miss news related to the economy, and it could turn out that there's an important event related to the economy that you should be aware of. In such cases, you will be relying on the expertise of others in the field.

Speaking generally, it's healthy to have a passing interest in many things, as long as you can also acknowledge that your understanding of things you don't spend a lot of time on is likely to be limited.
That's a great idea. I'm going to disrupt the ad industry by making a startup that injects ads into commenting platforms like disqus!
I feel like that cartoon is a bit too racist.
Could one defense be to design the chip to not have any empty space? In other words, fill in any empty area with test circuitry such that you couldn't tell which areas were actually used and which weren't.
Ad A: on the other hand, few people here complain about the outrageous amounts of money that some founders have made.

Yes, they built something. Still.
Can you expand a bit on the 2. point? (Probably there are some implications for bariosynthesis, but I don't have a good feeling how they should look like.)
Effective Health Checks in Node.js
Cruise (YC W14) was recently acquired by GM for $1B, so if he picked one earlier class the $3B bet would be attainable in my mind. Not to slight any W15 companies, I just haven't seen much.
Knowing how and putting it into practice are two different things.

I know I should eat better and exercise more, and yet here I am eating a scone and not having been on my bike in nearly a month.
Trump Hotels Taking a 'Yuge“ Hit
> I think this underscores how long 5 years is in internet time.

You're absolutely right.

The 10 biggest tech stories of 2011
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/26/tech/web/tech-news-2011/in...
Silicon Dawn generation 2? ;-P
Strman-java: A Library to work with Strings
Perhaps we've overstated the benefits of linking our personal fare to the economy. Humans have lived for many years in autonomous or small tribes, living off the land. I'm not advocating a return to ancient times, but I think we can reduce our dependency towards the economy. The only thing that is really needed is land. Food is nearly free if you have the land to grow it on and the time to tend to it.

Shelter, well that's a huge variable: building your own house is almost impossible with many regulations that require a certain expertise to navigate. But once you have food, shelter—and friends/family—you're in a decent spot from a survival standpoint.

We don't have to live like the Amish, but perhaps a happy medium can be found, by being less dependent on the economy. Instead of buying 100% of your survival needs, perhaps it's possible to buy 50% of them and make the rest yourself. With the better telecommunications we have today, I often wonder about a society that's only 50% plugged in to the economy—and 50% self-reliant.

Disclaimer: I'm no macro-economist.
Great news! Here is the paper if you're interested in Heron. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2742788&CFID=620516550&CFT...
Pure crypto functions are highly deterministic. If the output is correct then all you need to worry about is side-channel attacks, and to analyze that you don't need code audits at all.
If Facebook has access to nearby Bluetooth device MAC addresses and your MAC addresses, I'd argue that this is actually quite likely.
The visual might be off, but casting Alan Rickman was great. I can't read the books now without imagining Marvin's lines in Rickman's voice.
Btw, in US terminology, none of the people migrating to Europe are refugees. Only quota refugees are refugees there; spontaneous asylum applicants are not.
Other entertainment industries that require more labor.

That person playing the video game is choosing NOT to go to the movies, or the sports game, or the bar.
Which is why root is important...

Top 3 reasons: removing "crap", backing up crap and real adblocking.
In short term yes. But in long term the humanity will profit. One could argue that combines & co have put massive amount of people out of jobs but you do not see people complaining that 98% of the world population is no longer working on the fields. Eventually people will find other jobs. It is our duty to ease the transition for the people who are touched by it _now_.
Why Refunds Are Better Than Chargebacks
It's not. But it could be useful for a computer to tell you who it thinks you might already be friends with, so you can find them on facebook.
My experience of first reading these books as a disaffected, ornery, insecure teen in late-1980s America seems to support your impression.