skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a trite complaint, and in my view, misses what is often bogus about the lofty valuations - liquidation preferences provide a lot of downside protection.

For instance, if I invest $1bn in Uber at a $10bn post and a 1x preference, I get the first $1bn of any sale. Yes, I invested at a $10b valuation, but I don't actually lose any money unless the valuation sinks below $1bn.

This is a much better deal than simply paying $1bn for 10% of Uber, and in my view, actually does not imply a $10bn valuation at all.
> When would we likely see this in the states?

Xiaomi has officially said they have no plans to enter US markets with their phones at least and considering this "depends" on their phones for now I don't think any time soon, at least officially.

Unofficially, of course, you'll be able to order it off AliExpress/eBay/etc in a few weeks after release and I'm sure someone will reverse engineer it a bit and produce a modified apk that can be used to control these things.
I wonder where the senior lawyers will come from...

[edit] then again, automation of software development tasks held back the software industry at all...
Thompson's work built on and was mostly predated by MULTICS security evaluation that showed subverted compilers and use of hardware failures to boost trapdoors. See bottom two links on my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771243

Founders of INFOSEC taught us most of what we needed to know. Mainstream security prefers to ignore it, calling it unnecessary, then reinvent it one technique at a time over several decades. Least the OP paper is doing what high-security recommended which is investigating risks at transistor and analog level. Most data on that is trade secret given it's exploited for competitive advantage and intelligence agencies.
Yes things like legal discovery, medical history research and many other things can (and could be for the past 10+ years) and will be "replaced" or more like integrated with software / machine learning assist.
Large firms that hire 30 new associates instead of 50 won't be a big blow to the economy, even McDonalds switching to more automation won't have that much of a negative impact McDonald's can and should be the "cheapest" option, but don't expect the local diner to automate at the same time, and don't forget that we are willing to pay more for a barista even tho when you use the same beans even 25 year old automated coffee machines produces a better and more consistent product than the vast majority of barista's out there.
The Restaurant industry in the US overall employs about 15M people and that figure is expected to grow by 10% in the next 10 years even with automation.
> I'm (further) convinced that healthy eating and corporate interests are completely opposed.

I dunno- the longer you live, the longer I can sell shit to you.
If you think people only assign the asshole label to someone who does them repeated harm you should try driving in Massachusetts.
We open sourced Kafka support Spout, Bolt & Example Topology https://github.com/twitter/heron/pull/751

We run Kafka Mesos https://github.com/mesos/kafka allows for as a service implementation for broker clusters for users and apps.

Vagrant for running example https://github.com/elodina/heron/blob/v2/contrib/kafka9/vagr...
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So that's the answer? Return to feudalism and slavery? We only have jobs for the top x%, the rest can clean their toilets.
Question: Isn't there an axiom that says "for any real number, there's always a bigger number"? What stopped Patey and Yokoyama from proving Ramsey's Theorem For Pairs/Triples by saying "for any pair which satisfies some relation X, there exists another pair which also satisfies relation X"?
Hi, I made those color SVGinOT emoji fonts.

There are four methods for implementing (multi)color in OpenType fonts:

* Apple's SBIX table - Embedded bitmaps, non-standard, used on OS X.

* Google's CBLC+CBDT - Embedded bitmaps, part of OpenType spec, used on Android.

* Microsoft's COLR+CPAL - Colored glyphs, part of OpenType spec, used in Windows.

* Adobe/Mozilla/W3C's SVG+CPAL - SVG in OpenType (SVGinOT), part of OpenType spec, works in Firefox/Thunderbird.

I chose to use SVGinOT because it is the only out-of-the-box option for color font support on Linux right now. I plan to make both CBLC+CBDT and SBIX versions in the future.

> I wish there was native support for this trend in Linux

There is an unmaintained patch for Cairo to support Google's bitmap CBDT+CBLC OpenType format.[1] It needs to be updated and completed for "official" Linux support.[2] Behdad has many other things to do, so please do not open an issue against that fork. Long term, I expect support for both CBDT+CBLC and SVGinOT.

> I wonder how difficult would be to copy all those images from the Apple font and create a custom TTF so I can get the fancy colored symbols in my computer.

It is possible to create a CBDT/CBLC version of the Apple Color Emoji font, but the font is, as you suspected, unlicensed[3].

[1]: https://github.com/behdad/cairo/tree/color-emoji

[2]: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36

[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22337295/license-of-apple...
There are still applications for computerised "assistants" outside of manufacturing that can have a direct impact on jobs in the west. Eg self service checkouts at supermarkets, automated car washes, and we're increasingly seeing robots and drones being tested for delivery services.

The problem isn't so much east vs west. The problem is technology is cheaper than people so unskilled labour is easily replaceable.
Is there any evidence that desktop users want UWP applications? Given the reception of Windows 8 and MS's subsequent backtracking with Windows 10, it seems like most desktop users prefer traditional winapi applications.
Primarily indirectly, by keeping users on its advertising network. Its 30% cut of Play Store sales has been estimated to be worth ~$10 billion/year [1].

[1] http://www.androidauthority.com/how-does-google-make-money-f...
TL;DR: If you can force emulation of the LGDT or LIDT instructions, you can replace the global memory segment descriptor table or interrupt descriptor table (resp.), since the instruction emulation code fails to check permissions properly.
>> the 20% figure,

> Those are widely accepted.

Almost every time I saw IE, or MSN, and now Bing, I'd been tricked into using it.

MS users are rarely voluntary users, I know because I've been one.

> When Google does it

You're getting pretty defensive. Does that means you admit MS does it and the only defense is that other companies might as well?

What's your estimate of people who have tried two or more search or mapping engines and have intentionally settled on the Microsoft product?
The best way to rob a bank is to own (or pwn) a bank.
Observations of accelerated particles' decay follow relativity, they decay with slower frequency relative to the observer. If dark matter collisions were the cause we shouldn't be observing that.
Feel like they should feature the link to the repo much more prominently in the article!

For anyone curious, it's https://github.com/twitter/heron
Did anyone else find this article a bit jarring? Hungarians make the discovery but it isn't news until (reputable??) American academics glom onto it?
Unfortunately very true. So much of America is designed with the assumption that everyone has a car and there's no attempt to make anything pedestrian-accessible.

I live in San Jose and I honestly miss walking. I mean sure, I can walk, but I can't use it to go anywhere other than the 7/11 near my apartment without taking an hour or more out of my day. That's not to say I don't like living here (I do) but I guess that's just something you deal with when you trade a comparatively small college town (Santa Cruz) for a huge, spread-out city.
So true!

https://www.reddit.com/r/keto

~180K members of that subreddit. I guarantee you, if you cut your carbs to below 20g/day, you will lose at least 3lbs a week (no exercise required).
It's not a passive act: companies make decisions. As a collective market, consumers determine if that decision is good or bad.

Blackberry, PanAm, and other companies simply made bad decisions as compared to their competitors.
Bringing up the Betteridge thing became a cliché years ago. It was interesting when pg originally posted it, quickly became tedious, and now is merely mechanical. It's also not as true as people think.

Yes there are bad titles out there, though this article's is light years from the worst. That is no reason to bog HN threads down with predictable gunk. Anything predictable is boring.
This reminds me a scene of the wonderful AniMatrix clips. Here is what I recalled (may not be exactly accurate): Escaped robots established their own country in remote area and started to export products for natural resources. Since robots never need a salary and can keep producing goods 24/7, human beings cannot compete and all countries ran into deficits and their societies collapsed. In the end, all countries blockaded the Robot country and the war started, then the rest is history.
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Mindy Kaling's character on The Office was ahead of her time. WUPHF!
My point is that it's not really a great way of 'backing' up a database because typically you want the transactions after you've made the change as well.
> Much of that wealth has been accumulating outside the US, though, particularly in India and China.

But from a US perspective we seem to be poorer now.

> With interest rates as low as they are you could definitely get into a 1500 sq ft. house by age 26 today. You just can't do it in the places many 26 year olds want to live.

I bought that house in a place where 26-year-olds want to live (a West Coast city). Interest rate was 10%, but I was able to pay off the mortgage in 9 years. I don't think a lot of 26-year-olds are in that position these days. Too much student loan debt and houses much more expensive as compared to incomes.
Yeah, they were talking about this on the Amp Hour a few episodes ago. There's some universities that actually fab a physical chip as part of their coursework using MOSIS. If I remember correctly there was an edu discount.

Very cool stuff.
I Iive in a one-party consent state, I checked before I tested it.
Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One in 2017
Aren't any of those negatively affected by the possibility of aliasing?
The press release said that the Mi phone was used as the view finder, that's an Android phone no where in the article did it say that it would not be compatible with other Android phones in the least.
I would really surprise me if Xiaomi would even attempt at locking this to it's phones only, it makes absolutely no sense for them that said since many Mi phones cost less than 150-200$ and most people i know that fly DJI's have a dedicated tablet for it, it still would be considerably cheaper than the DJI phantom if it could manage to come close to it performance wise.

P.S.
While I'm not an American Xiaomi does has a US store
http://www.mi.com/en/
Fitbit Accuracy Questioned in Lawsuit
> it's dotted in the original graph and painted in yellow in the "improved" graph

The only yellow I see is in the mess of colors prior to 110°. It looks like the referenced line is actually the line that you painted green?
Yup. I also think users are more inclined to use Apple software on Apple products then Google software on Android products. I think Android (globally) will go to whoever can create the best user experience for low end devices.

Either way it's a red flag that Google software is becoming less and less desirable on the consumer market.
Yes. It's hard work. It also dispenses with the need for a gym membership.
I said about I don't do it anymore, I'm not sure what you are trying to ask here.
I think you're on to something here. We often assume a playing field of finite, seperate, individual objects interacting with other finite, seperate, individual objects, but I feel this is more a relic of how our brains break down reality than what reality actually is.
The root problem is that we live in a society where people have to compete for jobs where they use a bear minimal of their abilities, jobs that destroy their physical and mental health and make them unhappy, all for very meagre wages. As a society we should be praising and looking forward to automation because it will relieve humans from having to do all of the shitty work, but our society is not structured in a way that allows this. Automation will either be the end of capitalism, or the start of an Elysium-style society.
What are some examples of well-known desktop applications written for .net? Recent versions of Visual Studio are the only ones I know of, and those are only well-known to developers.
A very interesting, very honest, account from Rand Fishkin of the things he regrets about his time growing Moz. More entrepreneurs should be strong enough to share this type of stuff.
I know all too well, and you'd never catch me running that on any of my own systems. With a large enough install base, it's not uncommon to have a decent number of people on those older versions though.
Freestanding OCaml runtime
good advice. is it possible to do in the context of American high school classes?
I hadn't seen that, thanks!
The book on Gitbook: https://programmingblockchain.gitbooks.io/programmingblockch...
> we can't be expecting everyone to become an engineer or a scientist

We don't have to. There are many complicated jobs that aren't white collar but still require a highly skilled individual and are not currently achievable by robotics (millwrights for example).

The OP is referring to removing monotonous, simplistic, repetitive jobs.
I'm not sure I understand, those stories don't seem to bolster your point - a few of them are one-time events (Steve Jobs' death), and most of them are still ongoing concerns - hackers, facebook, etc.

I probably agree that 5 years is a long time in tech, but some variation on almost all those stories could easily be published today.
So... Better to have highly automated high tech factories producing in third world countries, with their poor roads, patchy electricity supply, unreliable access to raw materials, difficulty sourcing the educated labour you will need to run it locally & difficult to get people to move there to run it, patchy access to international transport, risk of internal conflict impacting on physical infrastructure, rather than paying taxes?

I guess you could always pay off the local warlord, then pay for your own roads, and all the rest... But perhaps better to have a government take care of it for you?
Not necessarily the same thing, but NoiseBridge is a pretty nice hackerspace and it's in SF.
And they built a site for the project with a good Getting Started section: http://twitter.github.io/heron/

Getting Started: http://twitter.github.io/heron/docs/getting-started/
> Blue collar workers losing their jobs will not lead to interesting times...

Sure it will, because it'll force large social changes and such changes are interesting regardless of whether they're bad or good.
Do we? I'm not sure we do.

Inequality has increased so much that the bottom 50% don't really own anything, they have no wealth to speak of. Their income, combined, pales to the top 1%. If they stopped buying and renting tomorrow, there was be a hiccup, to be sure, but not more than that. And that's new too.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised by any reaction to this. A hiring manager could just as easily think "This candidate doesn't even know they applied for this job because the bot did it for them, so how do I know they're even interested?"

Also in many companies the hiring manager isn't the person initially reading applications. And the person who is might not be technical and might have more of an HR background.
Your post relies on the unsupported idea that the advertisers' listings are not relevant. Google has never allowed advertisers to just buy their way to the top. Yahoo did, and they lost. Google's algorithms require ads to get clicked on.
There's another point, which I should mention: the kind of job that is most suitable to part-time remote working is also the kind that happens to pay very well and, as you point out, not the lot of those who are the most dependent on getting a job.

So yes, there's a bias in my proposition.
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Did they demand a $15 minimum wage ?
This Fly's Sperm Is One Thousand Times Longer Than Human Sperm
I don't think we're even talking about the same thing anymore. Nor do I think we could possibly have a productive conversation on this topic.
and i'm significantly more likely to buy the fries if they weren't bagged by a human.

for essentially two reasons;
a) mcdonalds treats their employees like shit. no job is better than that job ( i live in a country with social welfare)
b) the person bagging the food scratched his balls just before doing so, and he sure as hell isn't bothering to use gloves now.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it was used to build nice cities and finance great art.
That's pretty funny, and I can totally see why you might read it that way. I guess technically now it would be an Alphabet hybrid electric aircraft? Not that I'm at all careful about saying Alphabet instead of Google.
He means that the original statement is so vague that not only it is not true, but we can't even say that it is wrong.

It's like if I said:

"What if zebras are green and red, but we see them as black and white because we don't drink enough water?".

It kind of sounds like an actual logical argument, but it's not even wrong.
> "venomous"

More FUD!
LGPL is the best license from what you call 'contribute back'.
aft42 checkin' in - towel in hand :-)
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It's not a replacement for gym membership. It's a full time job. You can't do anything else than work in the field, eat and sleep. People did that their entire lives so they can send their kids to school to have a better life and you are advocating to go back to this?
I bet being an academic is a lot better when you don't have to worry about being a post-doc searching for a faculty position :/
Well I voted you up. :-)

It's hard to read too much into short term stock moves. To quote Warren Buffett quoting Ben Graham, "In the short term the stock market is a voting machine. In the long term it's a weighing machine."
How do you calibrate it?
This is hand waving.

60,000 jobs were just destroyed by automation, this isnt hypothesizing anymore its reality.

Where do these 60,000 people go now? What are the new jobs that these robots have created?
Gett v Uber: Which is better?
Ask HN: Can you recommend some RFCs to read?
Hi HN,

I just completed reading the drafts for TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol), and loved some of its concepts.

I felt like I can implement it as a framework (client-server pair) with some good things layered around it.

But I had to rethink about it because, TFTP don't have much use now-a-days (Am I wrong here?). Considering that it's generally used in LAN for delivering small-sized files.

Can you please suggest some protocol specific readings that I can implement?

I would love to work on it, spending the summer time I have before I join my work.
A Computerized Trader Just Beat Banks in Top Currency Ranks
By American volunteers do you mean github contributors or importing map data? How does one import map data? I'm American and have always been interested in GIS.

Edit: Parent likely meant mapping data using supported smart phones, converting data, and uploading it alongside notes or photos. Their beginners guide [1] covers it.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide
Force? No.

Strongly twist arms? Absolutely. Google "Louisiana purchase" for one example; there were several.

Now, to some degree, that's just normal politics. But I've never seen it done that hard, for that long, on a bill that passed by such razor-thin margins.
Or simply refusing access to the content without access to the camera (thinking of Forbe's ill-conceived content blocking).
Gees, I don't know. The world is ending. Give all the people free monies. It will end well. We are all brothers and humans are great.
>Of course, I'll take reliability & stability over fancy features any day, but I'm glad there's active development in this area, and look forward to seeing these features mature. They could contribute to some interesting simplifications.

ZFS is in use in production systems all over the world, with a very good reputation for reliability and stability. Nexenta and others have made successful businesses working with large enterprise customers selling ZFS based storage solutions.
There is no limit to human ingenuity.
>The other person may have searched for her on Facebook, causing her to be listed as a possible friend. Or perhaps Facebook uses location data to group people that are in the same location for an extended period of time.

Probably the first -- since I, and millions of people, stay with hundreds of people we don't know for the same period of time and more (in bars, airports, workplaces, queues, concerts, shops, etc), and they still are not suggested to us.
It's not even a good idea in theory. There's already a shortage of, say, doctors and software developers. Lowering their hours makes it more acute without changing the unemployment rate at all.

They tried it in France -- nothing really changed. The law says you can go home but you still stay and work; the company culture doesn't change.

In theory, the best economic answer, I think we can all agree, is UBI.
Wat? Google Maps was available on BlackBerry (and other platforms) when Steve Jobs was still selling flower-print iMacs.
In this connected world, top elites of the world have to figure out how to tax each territory, how to maximize the profit and how to be adaptable and sustainable. China in chaos seems not a decent option within the near future.
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Choose a project vendor that creates Open Source, not one that uses it
Really wish there was a C interface to tinker with.
Crowdsourcing a response to an NIH grant opportunity
I have T1D and have firsthand knowledge of this. It's called the dawn phenomenon: certain hormones make the liver release glucose back into the bloodstream. I take extra insulin just to stay level. Now, while in a healthy person it's all taken care of automatically, I would still recommend not to compound things and give your pancreas a break.
The instructions were on the page. Get it looking at your face properly, and then look directly at the mouse cursor and click it, on spots around the page. Make sure you don't move your head, just your eyes.
There is also Facebook Lite app, which is the Facebook app but made for people with 2G and underpowered phones in the developing world. Surprisingly, it runs really well on modern phones with LTE connections.
I think you're missing the point. It's not that AI will replace all lawyers, it'll simply shrink the lawyer pool size due to increased productivity per capita.
This could be useful to predict where the user will click next, so the website can preload data, with the result that user waiting time is reduced.
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They should have sold it for $10 to make it an even trillion.
I think the point is that robots will do the shitty low-margin jobs like drive trucks, bag french fries, and change tires, and humans will get to do more enjoyable jobs like creating "artisan" goods as you refer to them.
Stop giving them ideas!