skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mobile & web designers have had too much freedom during the past years"

Pretty funny to hear this from a designer. Lets just kill individuality altogether and make every website and application based off of Material Design.
That's the intended process for automated edits, with a pretty high bar for what should be carried out. This does result in sporadic fixing, as the global edits don't get done. A big issue with such edits in general is that there are restaurants using the other names that aren't a McDonald's, so 'fixing' those ends up breaking the data. In practice, the suggestions in the web editor end up being pretty powerful, so fewer wrong names get created in the first place.

I don't really see the need for shared conventions with the Wikipedia stuff, as long as each project ends up settling on a convention it shouldn't be a big deal to reconcile just those 2 conventions. Wikipedia/Wikidata are anyway probably the better place to put endless trivia.
Interesting. I knew about transflective screens and miss them from my early cellphones. I guess I need to read what the patents pertain to. A list is here: http://www.toad.com/20141209-dpl-patents.pdf

People want this. Anyone who wants the ability to take a small laptop outside on a nice day and be able to read the screen wants this. I don't particularly care about Negroponte's goals with OLPC but it did bring some technology into discussion that isn't typically used on mobile devices (lithium iron phosphate batteries being another thing to use for rugged outdoors devices...)

Digging up a bit more research it seems Toshiba was the last to use transflective in an ultraportable size. Here's one in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXO7u6bzVGQ
Maybe the idea of mass employment needs to be reconsidered.

The early Jeffersonian model of the United States pictured Americans as living largely self-sufficient lives on small farms, making everything they need for themselves like food, furniture, barns for livestock.

Except it also included slaves.

Are computers that much different than slaves? Perhaps only in that they are not regarded as a form of life, but they still serve us as we desire, they can be bought, sold, or smashed with a baseball bat by disgruntled office workers.

If most transportation can be done with autonomous cars, if most goods can be produced by 3D printers which source material from mines and facilities owned by robots, if there is no need for human labor on a massive scale, then it might become more of a cost than a benefit for people to be working. Most of us do not like to work, but we have to work. I like my job, but I would prefer a world in which I did not need to do it and could do other things instead.
>I hope that the spokesperson was speaking the truth when they said that the increased automation would not lead to long-term loss of employment.

This is of course untrue (its technically true as foxconn hires a lot of temps/seasonal/demand workers it doesnt consider employees). I think China is in some deep water when it comes to automation. Their main productivity is based on having lots of cheap human labor. If they're not careful, they'll fall into an India-like slump where over-population means lots of servants and such, but no real industry, growth, or innovations.

Addidas is moving back to Germany soon also. They are opening a fully robotic factory. This stuff is moving fast. Jobs are definitely going to evaporate here. China is probably headed for another peasant revolution sooner than later if this moves too fast. Building your economy on making other people's things isn't a smart move.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-...
I don't think you can get good at anything non-trivial. I think you can become average. That's why I recommended in the article to start working in teams and on real projects. That's when the real growth happens, and that's why you want to get hired as soon as possible. From there, you're on equal footing with everyone else and the rest is ambition.
The value of $ is measured in gadgets. We don't eat bank notes or browse internet with them.

Basically, $ used to cost 0.001 gadgets, but now it costs 0.002 gadgets. But your country's Product, measured in gadgets, does not change.
I think we need to be honest with ourselves that this is the system we live in, and sadly it does destroy people's lives.
Solution: most of the revenue generated by robots should go to welfare benefits
If Gawker could settle and have their insurance company take the hit then Gawker itself would remain relatively unscathed. By preventing the insurance company from paying out, Hogan/Thiel have made it more difficult to win their case and more difficult to collect to monetary award. Also - by not settling Hogan's legal bills increase as the battle rages on. Gawker can outspend Hogan, but Gawker can't outspend Thiel.
> High minimum wage is what prompted this automation in the first place.

`High` is subjective. $x minimum wage did not prompt automaton, a rising minimum wage catalyses R&D into automaton with better incentives. It's inevitable, and Mr CEO was always going to fire everyone and replace them with robots the moment it became cost effective.

> How UBI will be funded is another matter

Larger profit margins for big corporations turning to automaton, let's tax them more.
Similarly, my favorite line of all is:

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

(I've forgotten which book it's from)
She wasn't Yahoo!'s mascot -- she was their CEO. If you're CEO, part of your job is accepting blame when things go badly for your company.
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I helped out with this project, happy to answer any questions. I was involved from the beginning, but my biggest contribution was on the deep learning side that does the tile-matching. I helped with the initial prototype using DIGITS, Caffe, and a bunch of Python. Then Aman Tiwari moved us to a more accurate 34-layer ResNet trained in TensorFlow, and a more efficient nearest neighbor lookup using a new implementation of CoverTree search.
I switched to game development! F2P might be obnoxious but it's not going to take someone's job.

That's not to say that there aren't ethical issues here. My boss wants to automate customer service operations with customer service bots. So I'm not even safe there.
It's probably not far off... burden of debt + distraction of social media + lack of blueprint (goals) + partying = stagnation

Smartphones are the new TV; what is the statistic of how often millennials unlock their phone each day? 200+ last year. Was ~130 in 2014.
>Some might ask; well if this is the case, can we move production (back) to the US? The answer is no.

Says who? Addidas is moving its robot factory into Germany and the US. The perceive benefit you see from China doesn't exist once we have proper automation.

http://fortune.com/2016/05/25/adidas-robot-speedfactories/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-...

>Try sourcing a new chip in the states and then try over there.

Fabs are different because western nations have strict environmental laws. China's big benefit with fabs is its willingness to pollute its lands and poison its people for us. This is a negative all around and the sooner we get fabs out of China and into environmentally responsible countries and using environmentally responsible methods the better.
I think it's too early to tell. There only needs to be one winner in each bet for them all to win & it still seems possible to me. Hard to tell until a couple of years from now though.
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I'd imagine it's easy to learn some bad habits as an executive at Google, where your budget limitless, and you're rewarded for creativity and innovation.

That management style does not fly at a company that has no real product or revenue and is struggling to become profitable.

Most "normal" companies just do not have the luxury of withstanding a huge margin of error on cost vs benefit.
Not massive at all. The pipes are not a substantial creative artifact in their own right.

An IP violation would require causing brand confusion or drawing sales away from the original
Try living somewhere that has no / very little taxes, you will notice a complete lack of infrastructure. You want to live in a "developed" country where you have water, police, roads, schools.....
Some countries in continental Europe have amazingly pro-employee legislative environment. I know several people who don't read the fine print of of the work contracts, because they know that any clause that gives disproportionate advantage to the employee without due compensation will be considered predatory, and thrown out in an instant if it goes to the court room.
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Nobody is blaming her for making $80M. She is blamed for not doing things that would have made it better business.
I agree. I think another fundamental flaw with (current) cryptocurrencies is that they are all too computationally expensive to replace a simple, trust-based system. If you look at it from an economic perspective, the incurred losses from a trust based system (caused by it's inevitable and sporadic abuse) are probably still smaller than the costs caused by a (theoretically) abuse free system like ethereum. That being said, there might be corner cases where these additional costs are sufficiently small to make a blockchain-like solution viable - for example for very low volume but very high value transactions, like a settlement of financial contracts (bonds, etc.), ie. for any transaction, where an abuse of the system is extremely costly.
Interesting. So it is technically possible.
I thought textile production had long since shifted to another location, multiple times. Isn't textiles what is generally used to bootstrap the rest of manufacturing, but the margins get too thin as you increase your national standard of living through competition in the local market, so textiles moves to the next country that's trying to bootstrap their poor economy?
Blockstream / Greg Maxwell is Bitcoin's dictator. If you ask whether I'd rather follow Vitalik Buterin or Greg Maxwell, the choice is Vitalik all the way.
Notifications, chat bubbles etc.
I was also in Ruoholahti at the time and while those where dreadful times, it wasn't as bad (Atleast for me) as you picture it. Yeah, MeeGo (well, it was Harmattan, there was nothing MeeGo except binary compatibility and using the name to please Intel). Formatting Linux laptops was more of a joke imho. And guys who started Jolla where really not high execs in the program - really good tech guys but not execs :)

But yeah, I got myself a transfer inside Nokia after harmattan program was finished (still working on Linux stuff). Was away for few years and went back few months before Microsoft bought us, laid us off and our dept. spun off. During those times I didn't see any change on how things where handled from old Nokia days. So anyone who says that they didn't see this final layoff round coming is blind AF.
http://trendwave.com/asia/global-industry-4.0-will-lead-to-d...

There are those that are seriously concerned about China's ability to compete, including the Chinese Government.
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De gustibus non est disputandum.
I originally had the encryption turned on for my macbook I purchased back in 2015. It ran fast enough that I did not mind it.

The thing that ultimately convinced me not to use it was a seasoned apple store employee. He said if something goes wrong and you have it turned on, we cannot recover your data for you.

I am more risk averse, so I went with not encrypting the entire drive.

If I did need some encryption on OSX, I would probably go with creating a directory and using the Disk Utility that is built into OSX to just encrypt that directory.
A strategy I've found extremely useful is to look at the commonalities among people who repeatedly achieve success in very different areas.
Here are his three bets reproduced for comments:

1) The top 6 US companies at http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/the-age-of-unicorns/ (Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and SpaceX) are currently worth just over $100B. I am leaving out Snapchat because I couldn’t get verification of its valuation. Proposition 1: On January 1st, 2020, these companies will be worth at least $200B in aggregate.

Seems he is on track for that one.

2) Stripe, Zenefits, Instacart, Mixpanel, Teespring, Optimizely, Coinbase, Docker, and Weebly are a selection of mid-stage YC companies currently worth less than $9B in aggregate. Proposition 2: On January 1st, 2020, they will be worth at least $27B in aggregate.

Hmm... not as confident but I would not bet against it.

3) Proposition 3: The current YC Winter 2015 batch—currently worth something that rounds down to $0—will be worth at least $3B on Jan 1st, 2020.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/here-are-the-companies-that...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/y-combinator-demos/

Might be on track as well, though I am even less confident.

If I were a betting man, I would say he is more right than wrong, and on track for all three.

I think this underscores how long 5 years is in internet time.
Yes, it is. One of the fundamental principles of practical RDBMS is durability (the D in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID), meaning that when the DB acknowledges a commit to the client, it must be guaranteed that the transaction has been reflected in permanent storage (i.e., on disk).

The fine print: Due to the architecture of file system access in contemporary kernels (esp. file system caches), it's next to impossible for a user-space application to actually guarantee that writes are durable (i.e. synced to disk at a defined point in time), but most RDBMS manage well enough in practice.
Is it better to employ a worker at 80% of a surviving wage, or on a wage only high enough to survive of if you are healthy and without children, or not to hire that person at all?

Also I think you can survive on minimum wage, but surviving just means not dying. A surviving wage would only have to be high enough to afford the worker a 9 squarefoot of decently heated dry room to sleep in, two sets of adequate but not nice or new clothing, a winter coat and sufficient caloric intake not to starve, as well as access to a place to urinate/deficate and, probably, the occasional shower. I don't think that is that costly, actually, but it is possible to survive at this level.

So personally I think we should aim a little bit higher than survival. I am not concerned with the differences between the poor and the rich - no person was ever fed because his neighbor is also poor, but with how the poorest are living.
Even if it cost more, it would still be better value, and likely cheaper than traveling halfway across town and settling for a whatever is in stock at the store.
Yes, just look toward history to see this newfound fear of mass automation that has been found true for centuries! When the cotton gin made everyone homeless, the tractor made everyone hungry and the sewing machine made everyone naked.
This is the angle I thought first world countries would take to get manufacturing back in-house. It still makes sense to do it if the recurring infrastructure costs (like power) are similar. However a plant may no longer bring in 100-200 workers so not much for the politicians to preach about. It is going to be a few high skilled personnel, a handful of physical workers (to replace and maintain robots), and a temporary building supervisor (required while humans inhabit the plant). Eventually second generation plants will reduce that even further with only a supervisor coming around for extreme cases.
Guess they won't be needing the suicide nets anymore!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
> But even if those don't happen and you have lowered GDP, a lower GDP is not a bad thing; it's perfectly acceptable, and desirable, for people to spend a smaller fraction of their income.

Lower real GDP doesn't mean lower individual spending, it means lower domestic production of value relative the cost of living.

Lower nominal GDP also doesn't mean lower individual spending, it means lower domestic production in terms of some particular unit of currency, ignoring cost of living.

Both spending and capital investment within the domestic economy (that is, excluding imports), as well as all exports (whether consumer or capital goods) are included in GDP.

> As for your company, if you can reduce costs such that instead of making $50 on each $1000 gadget, you make $100 on each $500 gadget, both you and the consumer of your product win.

But the suppliers of the inputs to the product lose.

> Arguably, GDP seems broken as a metric for not taking that into account.

GDP does take all of that into account, including the parts you ignore.
(Adam from Realm) thanks for the kind words! Fine grained notifications were very important to us to support to enable a more reactive architecture. Glad it has benefited your code base!
I need somebody to clean my bath and to cook me dinner. I currently have to do these myself because the country I live in it is too expensive to hire somebody to do that.
I think we are all looking at this as too much of a zero-sum between privacy and security and ease of use.

What if we did away with passwords in 90% of use cases but required validation to change account settings, like email addresses?
Two other recent robot stories.

Adidas comes back to Germany but with a heavily automated factory http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-... and ex McDonalds executive pointing out robots are cheaper than 15 bucks an hour employees http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/mcdonalds-ex-ceo-15h...

Automated at the bottom and outsourced at the top, going to be an interesting squeeze and I am more worried about all the screams for protectionism in trade which pretty much shut down the world the last time it was tried
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Do you mean from server to client?

this is handled by the applications code, which inserts data primarily from a rest api into realm in a background thread. Not all data comes from rest however, some from apns or xmpp, depending on application state and the particular data.

Syncing is hard to get right. If realm offered it I would consider but I would not want them to do that at the sacrifice of making their product as solid as it is.

How does couch handle it? Does it have push and poll type of hooks?
But wasn't everyone talking about how Foxconn was evil for taking advantage of the workers in the third world?

Well that problem is fixed now! These workers are no longer being taken advantage of because they don't work there anymore.
I would call it Yahoo's Failed Prophet given she made best attempt anyone had seen in forever to get her people to the Promised Land in a few years after they marched 20 extra years in the Wilderness in the wrong direction stepping on what manna they received. Even Moses or Joshua might say "Screw this!" in such a situation. Well, Moses basically did but you don't see people calling him a false prophet. ;)
You can cross-breed a tomato with a fish though as done in some GMOs - you can only do small incremental and closer to nature changes.
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> Not only are jobs being lost through robotics on factory floors

That is at least theoretically debatable.

Demand is a function of price. Imagine a human driven factory producing 10 parts for $100 in wages, and a competitor using humans and robots that can produce 11 parts for $100 in wages. The competitor can bid prices down, and not only capture the human only factory's orders, but create new orders as it becomes cheap enough to use the part in new ways.

The empirical question is whether that increase of orders makes up for the decrease in labor demanded per unit. It's not immediately obvious which way that goes, and there's multiple anecdotes provided law professor James Bessen of cases where increases in labor demand occur http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/automati...

Nothing I've read of his suggests a conclusive 'more bots always means more jobs,' and perhaps his anecdotes are carefully chosen, but a blanket assumption that more computers implicitly means fewer people working is unwarranted.
It's a venturebeat repost of http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps....

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557166
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Is it me, or does this sound a lot like bikeshedding?
I'm not sure what you mean here. If you mean "why would I ever use Int8 or Int32, etc. if Int64 won't take up more space in the file" the answer would be memory considerations when you take that data out of the Realm... you should just use the size you need and you'll be ok.
Ok so say the minimum wage didn't go up. Wait 2-5 years for the price of robots to come down. Now can we fire the workers? These jobs are going away. Now or later its just a matter of a handful of years for big job losses.

Raising minimum wage is for workers who are not going to be fired because of automation in the next 5+ years.
I'd bring gutenburg, wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Scihub, KhanAcademy, etc. as already mentioned by others. I'd also bring DOOM. And if they had LAN, I'd bring Quake. Because no matter how grim a situation gets, a good game is fun.
I've just tested this again, and it seems to only happen when I type the query directly from my Chrome url bar (I'm using Google UK if that makes a difference). Same on Incognito. I get the "Copyright" page at https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright and NO LINK to the homepage anywhere on the front page of results, which seems nuts.

https://s33.postimg.org/7iaf0z47j/Screenshot_from_2016_05_25...

But copy-pasting the resulting URL into Tor results in a 403 page.

Does anyone have a reasonable suggestion for this behaviour?
This isn't (just) a CPU backdoor though, it's a possible backdoor on any integrated circuit.
Not just rigorously; easily studied, and checked. I haven't seen a single response here that says something along the lines of: 'Hey, I just did exactly the same as they reported the woman doing in the article, and she's right!' but instead, plenty of FOAF-type anecdotes about sort-of similar things. So, has nobody here bothered to check because they all trust news10.com as an impeccable source of technology news?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769878
That would be about the worst form of leadership possible.

By relying on attrition, you can pretty much guarantee that the people with the best offers waiting on the outside are going to leave, and that's pretty highly correlated with the people that you actually want to keep.

If layoffs are required, there is no other way than to take the bull by the horns and make hard decisions about who has to go and who has to stay. Sometimes that involves making decisions about what programs are going to go/stay, which consequently leads to letting good people go when you shut down some of those programs.

I'd also guess that shareholders have learned the lesson many years ago, which is why active layoffs often increase share price. Layoffs tend to increase near-term profitiability; whether long-term profitability is increased depends on whether you get the layoffs & refocusing done right.
Exactly, this simple example demonstrates how hard is to learn even a simple function. Playing with your code, 10 hidden units give error 0.6 in 1000 iterations, 1000 hidden units give error 0.02 in 10000 iterations so it takes way longer to train. This is not an easy technology.